History
At Bankfields Primary School we aim to deliver an aspirational history curriculum that is accessible to all, which will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more and remember more. Our teaching of history will help pupils gain a secure knowledge and understanding of events and individuals in world, British and local history, and recognise how things have changed over time. History will support children to appreciate the complexity of people’s lives, the diversity of societies and to develop empathy for different cultures.
Through our carefully planned enquiry-based history curriculum, it is our intention for children to make links between current and previous learning through our six key concepts: chronological understanding, significant individuals, trade, oppression, advances throughout history and war and invasion. Lessons aim to support pupils in developing a chronologically secure understanding from the Stone Age to the present day. It is our intention through using disciplinary concepts such as cause and effect, change and continuity, similarity and difference and historical significance that our pupils are taught how historians construct knowledge using sources of evidence about the past and to make valid conclusions about past events.
We want children to be curious to know more about the past and to have the skills required to explore their own historical enquiries. History lessons focus on working as historians and developing historical skills and there are many opportunities for the curriculum to be enriched through historical visits and visitors. We aim to enable children to ask perceptive questions, think critically, evaluate primary and secondary sources, and develop perspective and judgement. It is important for children to develop a sense of identity through learning about the past and we want them to know how history has shaped their own lives through local history studies.
