Start of KS1
- Can describe differences between him or herself as a baby and as he or she is now.
- Sequences images of themselves as baby, toddler and infant.
- Can sort pictures and objects, matching them to babies, children and adults.
- Understands and uses common words related to the passing of time: ‘in thepast’, ‘the olden days’, ‘not nowadays’, ‘a long time
ago’ (eg: fairy tales). - Realises that images from nursery rhymes are not from nowadays by reference to some period detail, eg: clothes, objects no longer used.
- Grasps that simple stories have a beginning, a middle and an end by correctly sequencing three episodes of a simple fiction story/rhyme.
- Uses simple timelines to sequence processes, events and objects within their own experience, e.g. stages of washday, something very old, old
and new (NB: be careful of the age-old problem of children feeling that training shoes bought onSaturday, but scuffed
