History
The All Saints’ Way…
Working together as a TEAM
Taking Risks – children who show courageous determination in their learning
Encouraging Learning – children being curious in their learning
Achieving Goals – children having the desire to be the best that they can be
Making Memories – in a school where children are respectful, show kindness and experience joyfulness!
The Lord says "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you" (Psalm 32 v8). This psalm gives us strength and courage in our convictions as curriculum designers.
History Curriculum Intent...
At All Saints’, we believe that a high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We feel that History should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups. We offer a safe and supportive learning environment that can encourage children to understand how history can play a part in them understanding their own identity and the challenges of their time. We encourage the children to develop an appreciation of their own and others heritage, to help them to use what has gone before to prepare them for their futures.
Implementation...
Our whole curriculum is shaped by our school vision which aims to allow all children to become the very best versions of themselves they can be. We teach pupils to investigate past events and, by so doing, develop the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem solving. We use The National Curriculum as a basis upon which to plan skills and knowledge progression. Wherever possible, we try to bring lessons to life through the use of high quality resources, visits and visitors. Topics are planned to engage, inspire, support and challenge all pupils and equip them with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to help them better understand and appreciate key events and people of the past and their influence on the present and future. Children at All Saints’ are exposed to these important key skills and historical knowledge throughout their primary school career, starting as early as EYFS where children are taught to understand and recognise differences between past and present.
The National Curriculum aims for History 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
- 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
Impact…
It is our aim that by the end of their time at All Saints’, all of our pupils will have developed an historical inquiring mind and deep cultural respect for others. It is our intention that pupils will have gained a strong understanding of chronology and the historical figures and events that have influenced their own and others’ lives, and can use this to prepare them for their futures.
