History at Southey Green Primary School
History Lead: Miss K Harvey
Intent
At Southey Green, we aim for a high quality history curriculum which inspires pupils’ curiosity and fascination about Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Topics are informed by the national curriculum and are sensitive to children’s interests, as well as the context of the local area. The history curriculum at Southey Green is carefully planned and structured to ensure that current learning is linked to previous learning and that the school’s approaches are informed by current pedagogy.
Our history lessons give children a broad and balanced view of the history of Britain and other societies and times. We ensure that pupils leave the end of key stage 2 with a secure set of skills that could make them a historian in the future. History at Southey Green is motivating, ambitious, relevant to the needs and awe-inspiring. Children at Southey Green enjoy a range of opportunities including attending educational visits, working with special visitors and developing historical skills using real life artefacts from our topic boxes. Our history curriculum has been designed and sequenced to ensure each topic, where possible, begins with a Chronological Understanding objective. This allows children to identify and place key events so that they can relate them to themselves, previous and current learning as well as the wider world.
At Southey Green we understand the importance of teaching children about the diverse world around us. Our children learn about diversity which is woven into our history curriculum, through looking at the diversity within societies. They are able to study a range of significant individuals who have shaped and influenced our world in numerous ways, reminding them that sometimes significant individuals do not bring positive change.
Significant Individuals:
As stated in our curriculum policy, we aim for all of our children to
There are many ways in which we strive to achieve this and below are just a few examples
We are a mindful school |
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We are ready to learn
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We are respectful to all |
We are responsible for ourselves |
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History Key Knowledge, Skills and Concepts
At Southey Green, we recognise the importance of children understanding key concepts, skills and knowledge and how these support children’s learning.
Here are Southey Green’s key history concepts which are woven into our history curriculum.
We pride ourselves on our History teaching and learning. As a school, we have developed our ‘End of Year Expectations’. These are a selection of skills and knowledge that we feel are crucial to the child as they move forward throughout primary school. Opportunities to revisit these are provided throughout the current academic and upcoming academic years as well as initial robust teaching.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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