Intent
At Senacre Wood Primary, we aim to deliver a history curriculum that is accessible to all and that will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, remember more and understand more.
Through an enquiry approach, our History Curriculum intends to:
- Support pupils with developing their understanding of the chronology of significant time periods and societies in Britain and the wider world.
- Develop pupils’ enjoyment and interest in history and encourage them to be curious and want to know more; this includes supporting pupils to devise and answer historically valid questions of their own.
- Support pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change and the diversity of societies. Then to use this to knowledge to discover connections between the History they learn and the wider community today.
- Help pupils to understand historical significance including how human achievements have influenced society and how historical events relate to modern day life.
- Provide opportunities for pupils to retrieve, and build on prior learning, so that they are able to recognise similarities and differences within and across historical time periods linked with substantive knowledge.
- Introduce pupils to historical vocabulary and provide them with opportunities to use and apply this.
- 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. This includes distinguishing between historical facts and the interpretation of those facts.
For details of how we implement this within our school and how we measure the impact, please read our History policy.
Policies
Term 1
Oak Class will be learning all about themselves in their very first term at school. They will think about how they have changed since they were babies and what they can do now that they couldn't then.
Ash Class are learning about the monarchy. They have looked King Charles and his family tree and will go on to role play his coronation.
Beech Class are learning about air travel during their history enquiry. They will learn about the progress achieved by The Wright Brothers, the Montgolfier Brothers, Amelia Earhart and Lillian Bland.
Rowan Class are learning about what life was like in prehistoric times. They will be making a clay model of Stonehenge as part of their learning.
Willow Class are learning about changes during Anglo Saxon rule. They will be making helmets during this topic and it will then link to their next enquiry about the Vikings.
Maple Class are learning about life in Victorian times which will culminate in a trip to The Museum of Kent Life to take part in their Victorian Christmas experience.