Development Matters

ELG

Nursery

Begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history.

Show interest in different occupations

Reception

Begin to make sense of their own life-story and family’s history.

Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

Compare and contrast characters from stories including figures from the past.

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.

People, Culture and Communities

Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observations, discussions, stories, non-fiction texts and maps.

Know some similarities and differences between families, different religious and cultural communities, cultures and traditions.

Using language associated with the past

Relevant ELG

ELG: Past and present

• Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Use words associated with the past including yesterday, last week, last year
• Use past tense when speaking about things that happened in the past

Remembering and discussing their own lives

Relevant ELG

ELG: People, culture and communities

• Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts, and maps.

ELG: Being imaginative and expressive

• Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher

ELG: Past and present

• Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Share their memories of significant events in their own lives.
• Talk about things that have changed.
• Begin to put these events in order

Talking about things they have done with people that are special to them

Relevant ELG

ELG: Listening

• Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class and small group interactions.
• Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding

ELG: Speaking

• Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including the use of past, present, and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from the teacher.

ELG: Past and present

• Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Share their memories of things that they have done with people that are special to them including friends, family, classmates and teachers.
• Begin to put events in order.

Recognising chronology within stories

Relevant ELG

ELG: Past and present

• Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Talk about the order of events in a range of familiar stories.
• Recognise language in stories that shows the story happened in the past.