'If you don’t know history then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.'

- Michael Crichon

History makes a valuable and distinctive contribution to pupils’ education. Learning about the past and the methods used to study sources and draw conclusions helps pupils understand and contribute to the world in which they live. We want our children to know more and remember more.

Our History curriculum enables pupils to:

• Develop an interest in and curiosity about the past of Britain and the wider world, including the lives of people who lived in the past.
• Develop a coherent knowledge and understanding about the past of Britain and the wider world, including the lives of people who lived in the past.
• Consider and understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today.
• Develop a chronological framework of significant events and people, and through this, develop a sense of identity and cultural understanding.
• Find evidence; ask perceptive questions; weigh it up and reach their own conclusions; thus developing the skills of inquiry, interpretation and problem solving

Our knowledge is organised into key concepts and disciplinary (second order) concepts. The core knowledge is laid out in coherent, sequential progression documents which detail the key end points we aim children to achieve. The foundations for the History Curriculum are built in the Early Years. This is built on in KS1 as novice historians leading to more expert historians in KS2. This provides the firm building blocks to become disciplinary historians in KS3.