EYFS
History in the EYFS
The EYFS framework is structured differently to the National Curriculum, as it is organised across seven areas of learning rather than subject areas.
Below, demonstrates which statements from the 2020 Development Matters are prerequisite skills for history within the national curriculum.
The most relevant statements for history are taken from the ‘Understanding the World’ area of learning:
History within the EYFS | |||
Three and Four-Year-Olds | Understanding the World | • Begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history.
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Reception | Understanding the World | • Comment on images of familiar situations in the past. • Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.
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ELG | Understanding the World | Past and Present | • Talk about the lives of people around them and their roles in society. • Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class. • Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling. |
History within EYFS at Bitterne Manor Primary School
| Aut 1 | Aut 2 | Sp 1 | Sp 2 | Sum 1 | Sum 2 |
Pre School | I Wonder… How it Feels? All About Me – emotions, relationships, sensory | I Wonder… Where People Live? Celebrations around the world Countries, festivals | I Wonder…. What Changes? Weather and season focus | I Wonder…. Who Helps Us? People who help us | I Wonder… Who Lives There? New life focus
| I Wonder… What’s Out There? Aliens, dinosaurs, superheroes, princesses, fairies |
-Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends. - Joins in with family customs and routines. - Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
| - Asks questions about their family and where they live. -Talks about significant events in their own experience - Begins to make sense of their own life and family history and beliefs. | - Shows awareness of time (e.g. stating ‘next it’s lunchtime’.) - Talks about how things are changing within a season (e.g. ‘It’s colder’) - Talks about how they have changed (e.g. ‘My top is too small… I’ve got bigger.’) | ||||
Year R | This is Me Abracadabra | Jack Frost | Time to Celebrate | Down in the Woods | Bugs | Octonauts |
- Looking at families and how homes/technology have changed - Focus on book ‘Once there were giants’ and idea of ‘past, present and future’ - Focus on old nursery rhymes and their meanings | - Thinking about time moving on through focusing on seasons- awareness of time - Look at Guy Faulks and the Gunpowder Plot -Remembrance day | - Some celebrations happen each year at a set time | - Living things change over time
| - Days of the week focus- awareness of time -Living things change over time | - Moving forward/ the future/transition | |
| Throughout the year, in both Preschool and Year R, pupils to look at the daily timetable, days of the week and class birthdays to promote their awareness of time
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