HISTORY

When our children leave us, we aspire for each individual to be life-long, ambitious learners equipped with a curiosity and resilience to discover and work out future challenges.  We aim to provide them with the necessary skills, knowledge and experiences for their life journey.  We want our children to be mentally and physically confident about themselves and to be able to socialise with their peers and adults alike.  We want our children to treat people and their environments with a kindness and honesty that shows respect to everyone.

In History, we want:

• To instil in the children a curiosity and understanding of events, places and people in a a variety of times and environment
• To develop an interest in the past and an appreciation of human achievements and aspirations
• To understand the values of our society
• To learn about the major issues and events in the history of our own country and of the world and how these events may have influenced one another
• To develop a knowledge of chronology within which the children can organise understanding of the past
• To understand how the past was different from the present and that people of other times and places may have had different values and attitudes from ours
• To understand the nature of evidence by emphasising the process of enquiry and by developing the range of skills required to interpret primary and secondary source materials
• To distinguish between historical facts and the interpretation of those facts
• To understand that events have a multiplicity of causes and that historical explanation is provisional, debatable and sometimes controversial