What matters most in History?
History enables students to find their place within the world; exploring the challenges that people have faced and discover the evolution of historical ideas and concepts. Historians are naturally inquisitive, curious, and develop a critical outlook on ideas and events and students will learn to create interpretations of the past.
We are determined to provide a world class learning experience with a curriculum which balances both breadth and depth of learning. We are fully committed to creating for our pupils, who sit at the heart of our curriculum, a learning experience which is not only academically challenging but also creating an understanding of one another, our heritage, and the world we live in today.
Our inclusive ethos is to instil in all pupils the highest of aspirations, to develop global citizens, who are ready to overcome the challenges of tomorrow by understanding the past. Our curriculum encourages students to engage with the world around them and to recognise the contribution of individuals and groups throughout history from a local, national and global perspective.
Underpinning our curriculum are the key substantive concepts of:
- Rights
- Power and Control
- Invention and Ideas
- War and Conflict.
These allow students to develop historical expertise to fully appreciate the historical concepts of change and continuity, cause and consequence, similarity and difference, significance and importance and historical investigations using contextual sources and academic interpretations.
Prior Learning
The National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 stipulates that students will have an understanding of key events and people both nationally and locally.
Alongside this, this will be underpinned by knowledge of chronology of events in British History from the Stone Age through to 1066AD.
However, we must be aware that students from different primary schools are likely to have little to know disciplinary knowledge and this needs to be accounted for when they begin Key Stage 3.