History
Curriculum Overview - click here
History Curriculum National Curriculum Objective Coverage - click here
History Progression - Key Themes - click here
Intent
At Billesdon School, we aim to instil a love of history in all our children. We aim to provide a history curriculum with excellent knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum. Our curriculum offer will encourage an enthusiastic engagement in learning and develop a sense of curiosity about the past.
Implementation
We have a rolling programme of history topics over KS1 and KS2 in mixed age classes using a two-year cycle. These topics cover the elements of investigating and interpreting the past, building an overview of world history, understanding chronology and communicating historically. We enrich the history curriculum with educational visits to museums and places of historical interest.
History – Implementation of Skills
Our History curriculum aims to build knowledge and skills which are linked through themes covering Hierarchy of Power, Invasion/Migration, Religion & Beliefs, Conflict and Peace and Travel & Transport across all year groups to ensure taught knowledge and skills are sequentially developed and embedded in deep understanding.
Impact
We deliver our curriculum to enable children to be engaged in history lessons and want to find out more. The children will complete research independently through projects and homework to further their own enjoyment about the subject.
We assess children’s knowledge through:
Pupil discussion
Evidence in pupils’ books
Assessment against planned learning objectives from the National Curriculum
Link to National Curriculum for History - click here
