Our history teaching will enable pupils to develop a context for their growing sense of identity and a chronological framework for their knowledge of significant events and people. The study of history will allow pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and develop perspective and judgement.
Pupils will be given opportunities to participate in activities and visits in order to provide first-hand experiences for pupils to support and develop their learning as historians and their historical experiences. Our ambition is that our pupils will have a knowledge and understanding of:
- A sense of time – with a coherent, chronological understanding
- Cause and consequence
- Continuity and change
- Historical interpretation
- Historical context
- Appreciating diversity
As the National Curriculum states, pupils will be encouraged to develop key historical vocabulary and abstract terms. Our history study aims to help pupils gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.
