History
Our aim at Hambrough Primary School is to stimulate the children’s interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past. We teach children a sense of chronology and through this, they develop a sense of identity and a cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. Thus, they learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in a modern, multi-cultural Britain. Our History curriculum aims to equip our pupils with the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding to be able to consider how people lived and experienced the past from a variety of perspectives and sources. By doing so, we aim for our pupils to better understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today. Our curriculum aims to spark curiosity amongst pupils as they are taught to investigate past events through the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem-solving.
In our school, the teaching of history makes a significant contribution to citizenship education and we hope that as our pupils learn lessons from the past, they will be better able to make their own life choices today.
Our curriculum allows pupils to develop the following disciplinary skills within the domain of History:
- Historical enquiry
- Chronological understanding
- Similarity and Difference
- Cause and Consequence
- Change and Continuity
- Historical interpretation
- Organisation and communication
The following categories of knowledge are used to support pupil retention of information by fostering the development of schemas:
- Artefacts and Evidence
- Location
- Beliefs
- Settlements
- Culture and pastimes
- Food and Farming
- Travel and Exploration
- Society
- Conflict
- Significant people and events
Click here to view our History subject overview