The opportunities, choices, successes and failures of people living in the past are crucial in helping us to understand the lives we live today. We believe that History is a subject that fosters empathy and understanding as well as offering opportunities for comparison and reflection.
Building new knowledge onto previous knowledge, children can make comparisons, identify similarities and differences and reflect meaningfully on the content learnt. Coverage of key British historical periods and a range of past societies from across the world gives children the opportunity to consider cause, consequence and change in multiple contexts and helps them to build meaningful schema ready for the next stage in their learning.
History Curriculum Design
Our History Curriculum has been designed using ‘Chris Quigley’ Essentials Curriculum as a foundation to build meaningful schema about key concepts in History such as conflict.
Our curriculum is progressive and builds on prior learning.
We have designed our curriculum to cover National Curriculum content in clearly identified year groups.
Our curriculum incorporates frequent opportunities for students to connect new learning to what they already know. To enable the shift of knowledge into long-term memory and the assimilation of new knowledge into meaningful schema, our primary history curriculum incorporates research-based strategies that promote deep learning and retention.
Specialist vocabulary is taught to enable effective historical discussion and is revisited purposefully in succeeding years to help deepen understanding and aid remembering more and knowing more.
Our Curriculum will be implemented by expert teachers through:
| Adaptive Teaching 6 Principles of Great Teaching | Adaptive Teaching SEND – 5 a day | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Challenge Explanation Modelling Practice Questioning Feedback | Explicit Instruction Cognitive/Metacognitive strategies Scaffolding Flexible Grouping Using Technology | Readers Toolkit principles for reading Habits of a Reader Comprehension Fluency Vocabulary Disciplinary Literacy |
| Oracy Framework | Digital Learning | Aspirations |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Linguistic Cognitive Social and Emotional | Enables accessibility Enhances Transforms 21st Century Skills | High expectations Broadening Horizons Personal Development Extra Curricular |