“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.
INTENT.
Through our Learning Means the World program, our History curriculum aims to inspire curiosity and fascination about the past in Britain and the wider world, whilst developing coherent chronological knowledge and an enquiring mind. Our teaching of chronology, helps to develop a sense of identity and a cultural understanding, based on their historical heritage. This enables our children to learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in modern multi-cultural Britain. We aim to provide the children with a rich and diverse history curriculum, equipping them with a coherent knowledge and understanding.
Our intention is to encourage children to think critically, ask questions, think and act as historians and evaluate evidence, which allows them to develop a broad understanding of the complexity of people’s lives and historic events. We aim for children to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, be able to communicate historically, whilst encompassing the British Values throughout. Local history is threaded throughout our history curriculum and we want our children to develop an appreciation for the people and events that are part of our local, national and international history.
IMPLEMENTATION
In History, we implement an inclusive curriculum that meets the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum whilst inspiring a love of the past. Our curriculum is well-planned and structured, is literacy-rich, cross-curricular and ensures progression and depth in learning.
Key knowledge, questions and skills have been identified for each unit and consideration has been given to ensure progression across the topics throughout each year group across the school. Stimulating lessons are planned, with clear knowledge and skills-based learning objectives and subject-specific vocabulary. Enrichment opportunities, such as inspirational visits, educational visits and events, provide our children with rich experiences and enhance teaching, learning and knowledge.
All learning will start by revisiting prior knowledge. This will be scaffolded to support children to recall previous learning and make connections. Staff will model explicitly the subject-specific vocabulary, knowledge and skills relevant to the learning to allow them to integrate new knowledge into larger concepts.
IMPACT
Our history curriculum is high quality and ensures that children have a strong knowledge of historical events, a coherent understanding of chronology and an appreciation of the impact that history has on the modern world. Our children enjoy and love learning about history by gaining knowledge and skills, not just through learning in the classroom, but also through educational visits and visitors.
Our children are confident and able to talk about what they have learnt in history using subject specific vocabulary and are able to recall their learning over time. Teachers assess learning in history against knowledge and skills-based learning objectives.
Spiritual Development
Through our Beacon History Curriculum, our pupils explore how different cultures and time periods have been affected by key historical events and they consider how this impacts on spiritual beliefs.