Learning To Become A Historian

History

Intent

• An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods and of historical concepts.
• A passion for history and an enthusiastic engagement in learning, which develops curiosity, the ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluation the past.
• The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas very confidently.
• A respect for historical evidence and ability to use this to support their explanations and judgements.

Implementation

• We use a variety of long term topics to link to our carefully planned and tailored curriculum.
• Planning is differentiated by year group in our mixed aged classes linking to the consolidation of English and maths objectives.
• Specific vocabulary teaching within lessons and developed through the specific knowledge organisers.
• Speech and language opportunities supported through regular drama.

Schemes

• Chris Quigley Essential Curriculum Milestones
• CLPE planning used a basis for English planning across school linking to History opportunities

Impact

• All children make good or better progress.
• Confident, resilient learners.
• An understanding and tolerance of diversity in our community and the world.
• Rich vocabulary developed through consolidations.
• Children have a love of writing for a purpose, seeking out different genre of books.