Our History curriculum is built upon our 4 core values: Faith, Challenge, Pride and Success. The aim of our history curriculum is to stimulate the children’s interest, curiosity and understanding about the past. We teach children a sense of chronology and through this develop a sense of identity and an awareness of the challenges of their time. We equip children to ask questions, think critically, weigh evidence and develop perspective and judgement.

We follow the national curriculum for history as this ensures cohesion and progression. History is the driver for all curriculum work for the whole autumn term, enabling children to become immersed in their history learning and make meaningful links to other areas of the curriculum through the project concepts.

The history curriculum is based upon the substantive concepts of:

Our Big Ideas (Disciplinary Knowledge) are:

(The children are taught how historians use the different ‘big ideas’ to focus upon specific aspects of study and the connections between them.)