Intent
All of the elements of our curriculum intent statement underpin our teaching of History. However, History provides particular opportunities for teaching the following aspects of our intent statement.
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Aims
The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:
Implementation
The History curriculum is carefully and coherently sequenced to enable our children to develop a growing knowledge of the themes outlined above. Pupils’ knowledge builds towards clearly defined end points so everyone knows what we expect our pupils to achieve by the end of each topic, each year and each key stage. To meet the educational needs of our school community we have selected the following core knowledge concepts as a focus for our teaching. These are explored in increasing depth as pupils move through the school.
In Reception class History is taught as part of the ‘People and Communities’ area of learning within the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Further details of how the Early Years curriculum is organised can be found on our Early Years policy.
In Years 1 to 6 History is taught as a discrete subject, though meaningful links are made with other subjects in our curriculum. For example, in Y1, ‘The Seaside Now and Then’ links with Geography. In Y6, ‘The Mayan Civilisation’ links with Maths. The topics we teach are outlined in the curriculum map for History. (see Appendix 1). This is published on our website.
To support high quality knowledge rich lessons, the school subscribes to the History Association and pays a yearly fee to borrow artefacts from The Museum of Lancashire. Pupils regularly visit The Atkinson, Southport’s Museum and Art Gallery to enhance their learning. Other visits include The Eco Centre in Southport for the Stone Age and the Roman town and museum of Chester.
All teaching materials are adapted to meet the requirements of our Christian vision and curriculum intent.