The key elements taught are:
- Chronological understanding
- Historical knowledge and understanding
- Interpretations of history
- Historical enquiry skills
- Organisation and communication
Throughout our teaching and learning of history we:
- foster an interest in the past and to develop an understanding that enables them to enjoy all that history has to offer;
- enable children to know about significant events in British history and to appreciate how things have changed over time;
gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’;
- lean how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world;
- understand the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history;
- understand how Britain is part of a wider European culture and to study some aspects of European history;
- develop a sense of chronology;
- gain some knowledge and understanding of historical development in the wider world, including ancient civilisations;
- help children understand society and their place within it, so that they develop a sense of their cultural heritage;
- develop in children the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis and evaluation
- understand how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
