Year 5 History Lesson Plans

Pupils explore Ancient Greek civilisation — its city-states, democracy, mythology, the Olympic Games, philosophy, and its lasting influence on the modern world.

Pupils investigate the Kingdom of Benin, a powerful and sophisticated West African state that flourished from the ninth to the nineteenth century.

This thematic history lesson traces how attitudes to crime and punishment have changed across different periods of British history, from the harsh physical punishments of Tudor England through the transportation of convicts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the development of the modern prison system and rehabilitation-focused approaches today.