History
Our history curriculum aims to inspire our pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past.
History helps pupils to understand the process of change, the diversity of societies as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.Our history curriculum will equip the children to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and develop perspective and judgment.
In both KS1 and KS2, History will be linked to a theme. In KS1, themes will run for a shorter period to retain engagement and interest whilst allowing children to see shifts in chronology and gain sense of the past, comparisons to be made and lots of practice using historical language. In KS2, themes will typically run for a term and focus on longer historical periods in greater depth. They are planned sequentially to allow for pupil to gain a sense of comparing different civilations or same periods. In both KS1 and KS2 children will develop a sense of history of their own locality.
Children will also be given opportunities to consider about ‘deeper thinking questions’ where often knowledge is further contextualised. Full details about our knowledge curriculum at on our Curriculum Matrix.
