Welcome to History

The history curriculum is carefully mapped out so that all pupils leave primary school equipped with an understanding of the past that paves the way for their future. Throughout their journey in history, pupils will acquire a breadth of knowledge of places and people and significant events through time: locally, nationally, and internationally.

Our history curriculum ensures that pupils not only have broad and strong substantive knowledge – a coherent picture of the past – but also understanding of the discipline of history.  We want pupils to develop as scholars within the discipline of history – so pupils need to know how we arrived at established facts. Pupils need to understand something of the contested nature of history. Such disciplinary understanding is not only important in its own right, it also interacts powerfully with pupils’ building of rich, broad, secure substantive knowledge. 

Success must be measured by the extent to which our children demonstrate our values alongside their knowledge acquisition, skillset, assessment performance and readiness for the next stage in their journey as responsible, global citizens and community champions.  Pupils are given the opportunity to develop their ability to ask perceptive questions, work collaboratively, think critically, analyse evidence, examine arguments, develop judgement, communicate ideas, challenge themselves and understand differing perspectives making them true ‘ASPIRE’ history scholars. With clear historical perspective pupils will be empowered to be active global citizens and community champions: understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history, and between short- and long-term timescales.