Our approach to the mixed-age History curriculum 

This printable PDF document provides a detailed overview of Kapow Primary’s History mixed-age scheme of work, designed to support mixed-age settings arranged into Y1/2, Y3/4 and Y5/6 classes.

The plan organises History units into a rolling two-year programme, with Cycle A and Cycle B units taught alternatively. New units have been created to ensure progression. This allows teachers to confidently deliver a well-structured, mixed-age History scheme aligned with the National curriculum.

What does Kapow Primary’s History mixed-age plan contain?

The plan outlines the progression of skills and knowledge in History, ensuring that pupils build upon their learning each year in a spiral curriculum.

It covers the statutory requirements of the National curriculum, details the History skills and knowledge taught and offers guidance on primary History assessment and the scheme’s implementation.

How does Kapow Primary’s History scheme develop knowledge and skills?

This document provides a suggested long-term plan for mixed-age year groups, ensuring a clear pathway for pupil learning. Progression is broken down into the following key areas:

• Topic knowledge – investigating key figures or events from historical periods; examining how aspects of life have developed over time.
• Chronological awareness – understanding how historical periods interconnect, overlap and impact each other.
• Substantive (abstract) concepts – recurring themes, key concepts and fundamental elements of historical knowledge, such as ’empire’, ‘monarchy’ or ‘invasion and settlement’.
• Disciplinary concepts – learning how historians investigate the past and how they construct historical claims.
• Historical enquiry – experiencing the process that historians use; navigating historical concepts by questioning, investigating, interpreting, evaluating, concluding and communicating.

What other Kapow Primary resources support primary History teaching?

• If you follow the History mixed-age standard plan, see the corresponding Progression of skills and knowledge – mixed-age version.
• Explore the History mixed-age scheme by browsing the Mixed-age units for both Cycle A and Cycle B.
• For details on all long-term planning, see the History subject leader hub.