History

Purpose

What children learn through history motivates and influences their decisions about personal choices, identity, attitudes and values throughout their lives. Through finding out about the past and changes over time, children develop a broad and balanced understanding of how the past influences the present. In developing a chronological framework of British and world history they are able to make sense of the new knowledge they acquire. History helps them understand the process of change, and to make sense of the present. Through the history curriculum children learn to construct arguments, and question human motivation and society with increasing skill and confidence. History helps children to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups. 

History at Littlecoates

Children at Littlecoates have a strong understanding of chronology and can confidently make  connections across local, British and world history. They can generate critical and  historically valid questions about the past and suggest how to find the answers. They can  efficiently and effectively use an increasingly wide range of stories and sources and can  weigh, sift, select and organise relevant information. They have a strong  grasp of the correct historical vocabulary and can apply this to communicate historically  in a range of ways.

Curriculum rationale

• Purposeful, engaging learning opportunities encourage a love of learning about  history

• Critical thinking pedagogy embedded into lessons

• Topics sequenced carefully to build and create a coherent sense of chronology

• Objectives across all strands revisited and embedded within and across year  groups and key stages to ensure cumulative fluency