Values

Intent

We will provide a structured sequence of lessons to ensure our children have covered the skills required to meet the aims of the national curriculum whilst encouraging them to be curious learners and gain a deep understanding of significant people and events from the past. We intend to inspire our children to develop a love of history and see how it has shaped the world they live in.
We will aim to develop and understanding of historical skills and concepts which can be transferred to whatever period of history is being studied. This will equip children for future learning.
These key historical skills and concepts, which are revisited throughout different units, are: Historical Interpretations; Historical Investigations; Chronological Understanding; Knowledge and Understanding of Events, People and Changes in the Past; Presenting, Organising and Communicating.

Implementation

• The EYFS and National Curriculum forms the basis of teaching and learning and dictates the curriculum content for History.
• The History skills progression map’  supports planning and ensures there is progression in the development of key skills.
• Wherever possible, first-hand experiences and real things will be used as a stimulus for historical discussion, exploration and comparison.
• In collaborative and individual work, pupils will have the opportunity to explore, gather and communicate their learning and understanding.
• Accurate historical subject knowledge will always be taught within lessons.
• Historical vocabulary will be explicitly taught.

Inclusion

When planning lessons, we consider learners with SEND. Teachers consider the barriers of the individual children and the key learning of each lesson; identifying the specific new learning. Teachers consider how to:

• connect previous learning to current lesson.

• identify key words whose meanings they need to be able to understand? 

• adapt learning resources ensuring all children can access the learning.

If appropriate, we plan for an additional adult in the lesson and share their responsibilities with them in advance.

Impact

The impact of using a well thought out, sequenced structure of lesson will be seen across the school with an increase in the profile of history.

• The learning environment across the school will is more consistent with historical technical vocabulary displayed, spoken and used by all.
• Whole-school and parental engagement is improved through the use of history-specific home learning tasks and opportunities suggested in lessons and overviews for wider learning.
• Taught skills are being using in further historical learning as well as other areas of the curriculum, such as gathering evidence for writing, inference and problem solving.
• History is loved by teachers and pupils across school, therefore encouraging them to want to continue building on this wealth of historical knowledge and understanding, now and in the future.
• Impact will be able to be measured through key questioning skills built into lessons and end of unit outcomes.