History
“History gives answers to those who know how to ask questions.”
At Flanderwell, our children will experience a high quality History education that we hope will inspire and excite them throughout their primary education. We aim to shape our children into having coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We also endeavour to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past through investigation and questioning, first hand experiences through valuable and engaging visits and purposeful and exciting topics.
Our Curriculum
We follow the National Curriculum which sets out the aims and programmes of study for History ensuring that our curriculum coverage is consistent across year groups and key stages, whilst also ensuring that disciplinary knowledge is built upon each year. The purpose of this, is to ensure that all teachers are able to support pupils in developing their own knowledge and understanding about History, resulting in them being able to make appropriate links to learning within the community and throughout their lives.
Aims
Our aims are to ensure that all pupils:
- Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world .
- Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind .
- Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’.
- Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses.
- Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed History – key stages 1 and 2 .
- Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.
Knowledge
In order to achieve the above aims, children will be taught a range of disciplinary knowledge:
Examples of Our History Curriculum Documentation
Whole-School-History-Concept-Map.pdf
Y1-Toys-Progression-Document.pdf
History-Tier-2-and-3-Vocabulary-Progression.pdf
Child-friendly assessment documents have been created for History, where the most important knowledge has been broken down. This is so children can see what they need to learn by the end of each term and by the end of the year. See below for some History child-friendly assessment examples.
To support children with their learning in History, Pupil Guides have been created for each year group and each unit of work. These are there to support children with remembering what they need to know for each unit. See below for some examples.
Y2-Pupil-Guide-War-and-Remembrance.pdf
Y4-Ancient-Egyptians-Pupil-Guide.pdf
History at Flanderwell…
What our children say about History in school...
“I love learning about Romans it’s really fun!”
“I like discovering the past”
“We have been learning about the Victorians and it’s really interesting to look at different sources.”
“The fact finding is the best bit!”
“I learn facts I never knew before”
“We had a Viking man come into school and showed us lots of cool artefacts”
“We learn about when I was like as a baby and what I am like now”
Some of the amazing displays around school…