Our History curriculum enables our children to develop both their historical knowledge and their historical enquiry skills through a range of topics outlined in the Learning Journey below.
Our curriculum is carefully sequenced, ensuring all pupils learn new content through rich experiences, a range of classroom resources and repeated encounters in different contexts.
Our Intent:
1. To inspire in children a curiosity and fascination to discover more about the past and how this has shaped the world we live in. Through finding out about how and why the world, our country, culture and local community have developed over time, children understand how the past influences the present
2. To gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, developing a chronological framework for their knowledge of significant events and people.
3. To develop a context for their growing sense of identity. What they learn through history can influence their decisions about personal choices, attitudes and values.
4. To provide our children with the subject specific vocabulary they need to describe, question and discuss the world, as well as their place in it. Our pupils are encouraged to recognise that they have a voice and to use it confidently to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, and debate topics that they feel passionate about.
5. We aim to produce well- rounded individuals by providing our children with opportunities to expand their cultural capital and experiences of the world. We intend for our children to have real life experiences and learn about History in an active and creative way and therefore visitors and trips form a fundamental part of our curriculum.
Our children are able to develop their understanding of chronology through a range of historical time periods, both in depth and as an overview.
Links are made to previous learning to ensure knowledge is secured and to ensure the children gain an understanding of the history of the local area, British history and significant world history.
Importance is given to the roles, contributions and achievements of significant individuals and different groups of people.
Our curriculum ensures that children are able to use a range of sources and apply a range of historical enquiry skills to understand, question and make links between our past and the impact it has on our present.
