History

Our History teaching aims to:

• Develop children's sense of identity through learning about the development of Britain, Europe and the world.

• Introduce children to what is involved in understanding and interpreting the past.

We do this by:

• Finding out about people and important events and developments from recent and more distant times and making links across different periods of history.
• Helping pupils understand that events usually have a multiplicity of causes and that historical explanation should be considered as provisional, debatable and sometimes controversial.
• Learning about different aspects of local, British and world history.
• Discussing why things happened or changed and the results.
• Carrying out historical enquiries using a variety of sources of information and looking at how and why the past is interpreted in different ways.
• Teaching the children to use their understanding of chronology and historical terms when talking or writing about the past.

We hope that whilst undertaking their study of the subject, pupils will find History enjoyable and interesting and will be keen to continue this interest out of school.

Year 3

A Roman Case Study

In this unit, children are introduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to settle in Britain for a long time. They consider the effects of the invasion and settlement of the Romans on Britain. There is emphasis on historical enquiry using artefacts and Roman sites and interpretations of history.

Year 4

What was it like for children in the Second World War?

In this unit children find out about the effects of the Second World War on children in their local area, nationally and internationally. There are also opportunities to consider the effects of war on children today.

Children use a range of sources, including the recollections of people alive at the time. They consider the reasons for and results of key aspects of the war.

What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?

In this unit children find out about the way of life of people living in ancient Egypt from archaeological discoveries. Children will develop their understanding of characteristic features of a society; identify the different ways the past is represented; and use sources of information to make simple observations, inferences and deductions.

Year 5

A Tudor Overview

In this unit children find out about the Tudors using a variety of sources and from several different perspectives.  They learn about the great Tudor monarchs and the religious turmoil of the period, as well as discovering how ordinary people worked and lived. They develop their ability to use written and pictorial sources, ask and answer questions, give reasons for actions and identify changes.

Year 6

What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?

In this unit children find out about the lives of Victorian children, how attitudes towards children changed, and the people who are remembered for their part in these changes. Children develop their understanding of the concept of change and continuity and their sense of period, by looking at the characteristic features of children's lives in the Victorian period. They build on their understanding of chronology by locating the Victorian period within a time framework, and by sequencing changes within the period.