History

An engaging history curriculum will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching equips pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, interpret evidence and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between relevant groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

By linking learning to a range of topics, children have opportunities to investigate and interpretthe past and understand chronology. We develop children with the following essentialcharacteristics to help them become historians:

● An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range
of historical periods, including significant events in Britain’s past;
● The ability to think critically about History and communicate ideas confidently to a range
of audiences;
● The ability to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using
historical evidence from a range of sources;
● The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past by formulating and
refining questions and lines of enquiry;
● A respect for historical evidence and the ability to make critical use of it to support their
learning;
● A developing sense of curiosity about the past and how and why people interpret
the past in different ways.