At Highcliffe, we follow the CUSP scheme of work. Our aim is for all of our pupils to see themselves as historians. CUSP History allows the children to draw upon prior learning in all lessons. It is built around the principles of advancing cumulative knowledge, chronology, change through cause and consequence, as well as allowing our children to make connections within and throughout the periods of time we study.
CUSP History supports our children with the retention of knowledge using retrieval and spaced retrieval practice. The range of modules taught at Highcliffe revisit and elaborate upon key concepts, events, people and places. The children also gain a coherent mental timeline of significant events and people and understand and can explain how this has impacted and shaped the world we live in.
Children will learn to say, read and write specific and associated historical vocabulary. This is planned sequentially and is built upon from Year 1 to Year 6.
History Overview
| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
| Year 1 | ||
| Changes within living memory | The lives of significant people (Mary Anning and David Attenborough) | More lives of significant people (Neil Armstrong, Mae Jemison, Bernard Harris Jr, Tim Peake) |
| Year 2 | ||
| Events beyond living memory | Significant historical events, people, places in our locality | Significant historical events, people, places in our locality Revisit: Events beyond living memory |
| Year 3 | ||
| Stone Age – Iron Age | Stone Age – Iron Age | Rome and the impact on Britain |
| Year 4 | ||
| Britain’s settlement by the Anglo-Saxons and Scots | Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor | Ancient civilisation – Egypt |
| Year 5 | ||
| Ancient Greece | Ancient Greece | Comparison study – Maya and Anglo Saxons |
| Year 6 | ||
| Battle of Britain | Windrush generation | Beyond 1066 Local history study – how did Henry VIII impact our area? |
