History

Intent, Implementation and Impact

At Vine Tree Primary, we believe that, through the study of history, children make sense of their world and enrich their understanding of it.

Our intent is to:

• Provide a high-quality, broad and balanced history curriculum which allows them to compare and contrast different periods of history, civilisations and people.
• We aim to ensure the children understand the causes and consequences that tell us where we come from and why our society is where it is today.
• Understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
• Provide opportunities for pupils to develop skills of enquiry, research, investigation and analysis.
• We will develop the golden threads of civilisation, trade, legacy, monarchy and invasion/conflict.
• Through studies in History we aim to develop the children’s cultural capital awareness within and beyond the boundaries of Crewe.

We will implement the History curriculum through:

• Active learning, wherever possible, using the strategies of:

 

1. Interpreting primary and secondary sources as sources of evidence.
2. Debate
3. Research
4. Drama
5. Hot seating
6. Active listening
7. Questioning and reasoning.
8. The presentation of evidence through classroom presentations and the use of technology.

 

• Children may work in groups or independently for elements of lessons.
• Whole class plenaries will help summarise and secure knowledge.
• Lessons will begin with ‘link it’ questions to secure prior knowledge.

We believe the impact will be:

• Children who are confident in the skills of research, debate, reasoning and problem solving.
• Children are aware of their role in the world, secure in the understanding of where they came from and why society is as it is.
• They will understand that history is a series of movements and events that drive human innovation and progress.

 

Curriculum

EYFS

History is taught through the early learning goal of Understanding the world. (Past and present, People, Culture and communities.)

1. Pupils will:

 

• Comment on images of familiar situation in the past.
• Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.
• Talk about the lives of people around them and their roles in society.
• Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their own experiences and what has been read in class.
• Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

 

KS1

1. Pupils will be taught about:

• Changes within living memory and changes in national life.
• Events beyond living memory that are nationally or globally significant.
• The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
• Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

KS2

1. Pupils will be taught about:

• In relation to Britain; the Stone Age to the Iron Age, the Roman Empire, the Anglo Saxons and Scots, the Vikings to the time of Edward the Confessor.
• The earliest civilisations.
• Studies on local history, an aspect of British history beyond 1066, Ancient Greece, a non-European society such as Baghdad c. AD 900 and another ancient civilisation.

 

Adaptive Learning

1. 1. The school recognises the fact that in all history classes there are pupils of a variety of abilities, however, all children will work towards the same objective in lessons with work being adapted to ensure all children achieve the end points, for example, written or picture representations of work.

 

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