Key Stage 2 – Pupils should be taught about

• Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

• Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

• The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England

• A local history study

• An aspect or theme of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

• The achievements of the earliest civilizations

• Ancient Greece

• A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history, for example early Islamic or Mayan civilization