History Vision Statement

Brookfield Primary School

– Be the best you can be!

Intent

At Brookfield Primary School, children will:

• Develop a well-rounded knowledge of history

• Understand the chronology of British history and worldwide civilisations

• Build on their local historical understanding and how that impacts the community

• Think like a historian – critically and analytically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and begin to understand the diversity of societies and the people within them.

• Develop a sense of pride in their locality and its past, through a love of history.

Implementation

The curriculum is led and overseen by the History lead, who undertakes a regular programme of monitoring, evaluation and review. History will be taught termly in all year groups for an hour and a half weekly. Where possible links are made with other curriculum areas in order to support children linking ideas and enabling teachers to be able to go over key facts and sticky knowledge more often.

The teaching, learning and sequencing of the history curriculum enables and creates:

• a curriculum designed to ensure coverage and progression in all skills relating to History.

• EYFS, an understanding of the events of my own lifetime and develop an awareness that there are people who were born before me and my relationships to them.

• KS1, the development of historical skills, which focus on the world around them and within living memory, before exploring events beyond living memory. This ensures a firm foundation for KS2 history.

• KS2, a History curriculum set out in chronological order to allow children to reference the previous events in time, and to refer to this prior learning year-on-year and within the year.

We have developed a progression of skills set out in order to build and develop the pupils’ chronological awareness; their knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes the past; connections and historical links; differing interpretations of History; and, historical enquiry. Across the year groups, these skills will complement the deliberate development of long-term memory.

Impact

By the time pupils leave Brookfield Primary School our children will be increasingly critical and analytical thinkers, making informed and balanced judgements based on their knowledge of the past. They will be developing an understanding of how historical events have shaped the world that they live in both nationally, internationally and locally.

Our children will develop enquiry skills to pursue their own interests within a topic, developing further questioning. Where applicable, children will have encountered/participated–in high-quality visits/visitors to further appreciate the impact of History. Children are to retain prior-learning and explicitly make connections between what they have previously learned and what they are currently learning.