Intent

We offer a high quality and ambitious history curriculum that ignites in pupils a real curiosity and fascination about Britain’s past and the wider world. Our aim is to fulfil the requirements, aims and programmes of study of the National Curriculum for History, whilst also being fully inclusive of every child.  We provide a broad and balanced programme of study that encompasses both our school values and British Values throughout.  Our history curriculum has been carefully ordered and sequenced, ensuring that key component knowledge is not only built upon but rigorously revisited through pedagogical teaching and learning approach.  

Implementation

In ensuring high standards of teaching and learning in history, we implement a curriculum that is progressive and builds year on year.

History is taught as part of a half-termly or termly topic, focusing on key component knowledge and incorporates composite and disciplinary skills, enabling children to learn how to become a historian. Our History lessons provide a variety of opportunities for children to expand their vocabulary through careful planning, discussion, research and reading.

We ensure that history has the same importance given to it as the core subjects, as we feel this is important in enabling all children to gain ‘real-life’ experiences and to work as historians. Children are given opportunities to carry out historical inquiries by using research to answer their own questions or pre-planned learning challenge questions. They are encouraged to use a range of historical tools in order collate information about a period in history or an historical event, and then are able to present their findings in a variety of ways.

EYFS

In EYFS, teachers follow the ‘Development Matters in the EYFS’ guidance which aims for all children in Reception to have an ‘Understanding of the World; people and communities, by the end of the academic year.