History

Intent

One of our aims is to inspire pupils’ curiosity about the past in order to support and encourage the asking of perceptive questions: Our curriculum provides children with opportunities to ask questions, think critically, consider evidence, examine arguments and develop perspective and judgement.

Children will understand History as a coherent, chronological narrative, how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. They will develop a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’ and ‘parliament’. Children will understand 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 constructed History.