Lead: Miss L Wagstaff & Mrs A Cunningham
Our Intent at Swinton Queen
History is vital to a rich and broad primary education. At Swinton Queen Primary, we want children to enjoy learning about the past.
In line with the National Curriculum, we want pupils to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We want our history curriculum to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past.
Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, discuss, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups. as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
The National Curriculum for History aims to ensure that all pupils:
● know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
● know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
● gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
● understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
● understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
● gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, 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.
We plan for History using the National Curriculum objectives to ensure a robust and thorough approach.
We teach history through 3 key concepts:
Conflict
Power
Innovation
These key concepts form building blocks of progress in terms of knowledge, skills and understanding as the children progress through school. When a new unit of work is introduced, links are made to prior learning within the concept, together with what learning will come in the next phases, so the children are clear how what they have been taught before, can be used to support their new learning, and how this will feed into subsequent learning.
We ensure that previously taught concepts are regularly revisited. Pupils with SEND have full access to the History curriculum with individual or group support to enable them to secure their knowledge to access the content. We ensure pupils experience many educational visits to ensure rich first hand experiences.
Knowledge of Significant : Periods, Concepts, People, Key events, Chronology, Key aspects of World History and Key aspects of British History and Local History.
The ability to investigate and explain the impact of historical events
The ability to use, represent and question a range of primary and secondary sources
The ability to communicate, debate and discuss the past
Credits:
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