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Intent
This curriculum inspires our young historians to flourish by gaining a deep, well-rounded and chronologically coherent understanding of local, national and internationally significant periods, events and historical aspects. Our children will leave us feeling inspired and curious to find out even more. By making links to local areas, and to the context of our learners, we aim to make a historical curriculum which is inspirational and results in pupils knowing more and remembering more.
An ambitious, motivating and knowledge-rich curriculum enables pupils to:
– Develop a chronological understanding of the UK and the local area, including its interactions with the wider world.
– Systematically develops a wide and deep understanding of historical substantive concepts, such as power, rebellion, industry, civilisation and empire
– Exposes children to significant ancient civilisations, empires and non-European societies.
– Draws connections between different aspects of local, regional, national and international history.
– Develops the disciplinary knowledge essential to developing historical understanding, including knowledge of the process of historical enquiry, understanding cause and consequence, understanding that different versions of the past exist and using a variety of historical sources of evidence.
This process of knowledge acquisition begins in EYFS with a focus on local history and familiar aspects of the past. Children, in KS1, also significant individuals from the past who has contributed to local and national achievements. This component learning is undertaken whilst children also build knowledge of substantive concepts and slowly enrich their chronological schema. Children learn to ask questions, use different sources and begin to understand that the past can be represented in different ways.
In Key Stage 2, children’ chronological frameworks are further developed, at a local, national and international level. This includes a focus, for example, on the Romans, Anglo- Saxons and Vikings, Ancient Greece, Early Islamic civilisation and a focused study of World War 2. Disciplinary knowledge also continues to be systematically developed accordingly, in partnership with a flourishing substantive knowledge.
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Aspirations
Pupils develop an understanding of how subjects and specific skills are linked to future jobs. Here are some of the jobs you could aspire to do in the future as a Historian:
- Member of Parliament
- Curator
- Publicity Assistant
- Tour Guide
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Impact
- Children will achieve age related expectations in History at the end of their cohort year
- Children will develop a curiosity about the past and be able to pose their own questions
- Children will work practically to develop enquiry skills and find the answers and extend their understanding
- Children will be able to build on prior knowledge and link ideas together
- Children will retain knowledge that is pertinent to History within a real life context
- Children will have a richer vocabulary which will enable them to articulate their understanding of taught topics