Chapter library

Chapter 1: Meet two significant queens: Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

• Can say who Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria were and tell the two queens apart

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: Long ago: putting the queens on a timeline

• Can put Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and today in the right order on a timeline

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: The life of Elizabeth I and what she is remembered for

• Can say what Elizabeth I is remembered for, such as explorers sailing the world, beating the Spanish Armada and plays by Shakespeare

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: The life of Queen Victoria and what she is remembered for

• Can say what Queen Victoria is remembered for, such as the first stamp, steam trains and the Great Exhibition

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 5: Comparing the queens: same and different

• Can find ways the two queens were the same and ways they were different

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 6: Life long ago: Tudor times and Victorian times compared

• Can compare homes, light, travel, school and toys in Tudor and Victorian times, and say what changed and what stayed the same

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: The city of Rome: how it began and grew

• Can tell the legend of how Rome began and describe how it grew into a great city with famous buildings

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Roman emperors: who ruled the empire

• Can explain what Roman emperors did and name famous emperors such as Augustus, Claudius and Hadrian

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: The Roman army: legions, soldiers and power

• Can explain why the Roman army was so powerful and how it helped the empire grow by AD 42

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: How the empire grew: the Roman Empire by AD 42

• Can explain why the Roman army was so powerful and how it helped the empire grow by AD 42

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Julius Caesar's attempted invasion of Britain: 55–54 BC

• Can explain Julius Caesar's attempts to invade Britain in 55–54 BC and Claudius's conquest in AD 43

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: Claudius's invasion and conquest of Britain: AD 43

• Can explain Julius Caesar's attempts to invade Britain in 55–54 BC and Claudius's conquest in AD 43

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 7: British resistance: Boudica's revolt

• Can explain why Boudica rebelled against the Romans, what happened and how it ended

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 8: Hadrian's Wall: guarding the edge of the empire

• Can explain why Hadrian's Wall was built and what was found along it

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 9: Romanisation of Britain: Caerwent, technology and culture

• Can describe how Roman towns like Caerwent, technology and culture changed life in Britain

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 10: Roman beliefs and early Christianity in Britain

• Can describe Roman gods and how Christianity came to Roman Britain

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Timeline: putting the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages in order

• Can put the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in order on a timeline and read BC dates

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Hunter-gatherers: hunting, fishing and gathering in the Stone Age

• Can describe how Stone Age hunter-gatherers found food, made tools and moved with the seasons

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: The first farmers: Skara Brae and New Stone Age villages

• Can explain how farming let people settle down in villages, like Skara Brae

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Bronze Age: metalwork, Stonehenge and travel

• Can describe how Bronze Age people made bronze, travelled far to trade, and used Stonehenge

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Iron Age hill forts: tribes, farming, art and culture

• Can describe Iron Age hill forts, tribes, farming and art

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: Changes from the Stone Age to the Iron Age: the whole story

• Can explain how tools, food and homes changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
• Can put the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in order on a timeline and read BC dates

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: The Great Fire of London: an event from long ago (1666)

• Can say the Great Fire of London happened in 1666, long before anyone alive today was born

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: How the Great Fire started and spread: telling the story in order

• Can explain that the fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane and spread because of wind, wooden houses and a dry summer, and can tell the story in order

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: Fighting the fire: firefighting in 1666 and today

• Can describe how people fought the fire in 1666 with buckets, squirts, hooks and firebreaks, and how that is different from today

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: How we know: Samuel Pepys's diary and other sources

• Can name ways we find out about the Great Fire, like Samuel Pepys's diary, paintings, maps and objects, and use them to answer questions

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 5: How London changed after the Great Fire

• Can explain how London was rebuilt after the fire with brick and stone houses, wider streets, a new St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: Beyond living memory: when was 1605?

• Can explain that the Gunpowder Plot happened in 1605, long before anyone alive today was born, and can spot things from long ago

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: The Gunpowder Plot: who, what, where and when

• Can say who, what, where and when for the Gunpowder Plot: King James and the plotters, a plan to blow up Parliament, from a cellar underneath it, on 5 November 1605

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: The story in order: the secret letter and Guy Fawkes caught

• Can explain how a secret letter stopped the plot and how Guy Fawkes was caught, and put the main events of the story in order

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: Asking and answering questions with sources

• Can ask questions using who, what, where, when and why, and use clues from the past, like objects, pictures and letters, to answer them

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 5: Why we remember: Bonfire Night on 5 November

• Can explain that Bonfire Night on 5 November remembers the king being kept safe in 1605, and is still remembered every year

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: When were the Victorians? Queen Victoria's reign on the timeline after 1066

• Can place Queen Victoria's reign (1837 to 1901) on a timeline after 1066, work out years between dates and name the century

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Childhood in Victorian Britain: contrasts between rich and poor children

• Can compare the lives of rich and poor Victorian children and spot what they had in common

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Children at work: mills, mines, chimney sweeps and the laws that changed them

• Can describe jobs Victorian children did in mills, mines and chimneys, and the laws that changed them

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Victorian schools: slates, the three Rs and the Education Acts of 1870, 1880 and 1891

• Can describe a Victorian classroom and how the Education Acts of 1870, 1880 and 1891 changed who went to school

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: New Victorian inventions: railways as a turning point, the Penny Black, the telephone and the light bulb

• Can put Victorian inventions such as railways, the Penny Black, the telephone and the light bulb in order and explain what each changed

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: Change over time: trends, contrasts, connections and continuity from 1837 to 1901

• Can use the words trend, contrast, connection and continuity to describe change in Victorian Britain

Years 3–6 history Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: The Second World War on the timeline: 1939 to 1945

• Can place the Second World War (1939 to 1945) on a timeline after 1066, the Victorians and the First World War, and say why it started

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Evacuees: why children left the cities

• Can explain why children were evacuated from cities, where they went and what it felt like

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Rationing: why and how food was shared out

• Can explain why food was rationed and how ration books shared it out fairly

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: The Battle of Britain: the RAF and a turning point

• Can explain how the RAF won the Battle of Britain in 1940, and why it was a turning point

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: The Blitz: bombing, blackouts and air raid shelters

• Can describe what the Blitz was and how people kept safe with blackouts and air raid shelters

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: How the war changed Britain: a turning point

• Can describe how the war changed life in Britain, and explain why it was a turning point in British history

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: The 2 times table: counting in groups of 2

• Can recall and use the 2 times table facts

Year 2 maths

Chapter 2: Odd and even numbers: making pairs

• Can tell if a number is odd or even, by making pairs and checking the last digit

Year 2 maths

Chapter 3: The 10 times table: counting in groups of 10

• Can recall and use the 10 times table facts

Year 2 maths

Chapter 4: The 5 times table: counting in groups of 5

• Can recall and use the 5 times table facts

Year 2 maths

Chapter 5: Division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables: sharing and grouping

• Can use the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to divide, by sharing or making equal groups

Year 2 maths

Chapter 1: The +, − and = signs: reading and writing number sentences

• Can read and write number sentences with +, − and =, and knows that = means 'is the same as'

Year 1 maths

Chapter 2: Adding one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0

• Can add one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including adding 0

Year 1 maths

Chapter 3: Subtracting one-digit and two-digit numbers within 20, including 0

• Can take away (subtract) one-digit and two-digit numbers within 20, including 0

Year 1 maths

Chapter 4: One-step story problems with objects and pictures

• Can solve one-step story problems by acting them out with objects or pictures and choosing + or −

Year 1 maths Year 1 maths

Chapter 5: Missing number problems like 7 = ? − 9

• Can find missing numbers in number sentences, like 5 + ? = 8 and 7 = ? − 9

Year 1 maths Year 1 maths

Chapter 1: Bonds to 10

• Can quickly find number bonds to 10 and to 100, like 7 + 3 and 60 + 40

Chapter 2: Hop and add

• Can add ones and tens in their head by counting on, like 47 + 30

Chapter 3: Swap it!

• Can add numbers in any order and spot pairs that make 10 to add three numbers

Chapter 4: Hop back

• Can take away ones and tens in their head by counting back

Chapter 5: Check it!

• Can check an addition with a subtraction (and the other way round)

Chapter 6: Column adding

• Can add two- and three-digit numbers with the column method, carrying when needed

Chapter 7: Column taking away

• Can subtract three-digit numbers with the column method, exchanging when needed

Chapter 1: Column addition: lining up and adding 4-digit numbers

• Can add numbers with up to 4 digits using column addition, lining up the digits and exchanging when a column makes 10 or more

Year 4 maths

Chapter 2: Column addition with exchanging (carrying ten)

• Can add numbers with up to 4 digits using column addition, lining up the digits and exchanging when a column makes 10 or more

Year 4 maths

Chapter 3: Column subtraction: subtracting 4-digit numbers with an exchange

• Can subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using column subtraction, exchanging when a column doesn't have enough, even across zeros

Year 4 maths

Chapter 4: Column subtraction with more than one exchange and with zeros

• Can subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using column subtraction, exchanging when a column doesn't have enough, even across zeros

Year 4 maths

Chapter 5: Estimating answers by rounding

• Can estimate the answer to an addition or subtraction by rounding the numbers, and use the estimate to spot answers that can't be right

Year 4 maths

Chapter 6: Checking answers with the inverse: add to check subtraction, subtract to check addition

• Can check an addition by subtracting, and a subtraction by adding, using the inverse

Year 4 maths

Chapter 7: Two-step problems: choosing to add or subtract, and why

• Can solve two-step word problems by deciding whether to add or subtract at each step, and explain why

Year 4 maths

Chapter 1: Multiples: counting in equal jumps

• Can spot the multiples of a number, such as knowing that 36 is a multiple of 4

Year 5 maths

Chapter 2: Factors and factor pairs: making equal rows

• Can tell whether a number is a factor and find factor pairs, such as 3 and 4 for 12

Year 5 maths

Chapter 3: Finding all the factor pairs of a number

• Can find all the factor pairs of a number by working through them in order

Year 5 maths

Chapter 4: Common factors of two numbers

• Can find the common factors of two numbers, such as 1, 2, 3 and 6 for 12 and 18

Year 5 maths

Chapter 5: Solving problems with factors, multiples, squares and cubes

• Can solve sharing and packing problems using factors, multiples, square numbers and cube numbers

Year 5 maths