History

We encourage children to want to know more about the past and to think and act as historians.

Children have opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s past as well as that of the wider world, and to be able to communicate historically.

Our curriculum covers the national curriculum units chronologically. Each year group also studies an element of British history, which is progressive in terms of the key knowledge children need to acquire.

Each unit will provide children with:

An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts of the period they are studying
Opportunities to think critically about history and challenge viewpoints
The ability to use a range of historical evidence and sources and begin to evaluate them
Develop and refine questions and lines of enquiry as well as beginning to answer them
Skills to research people and events of the past