History

At Godstone Primary and Nursery School, Connected Curriculum is used to support the delivery of an engaging history curriculum. Connected History has been carefully designed and resourced to provide a coherent, progressive and rigorous learning programme for Years 1–6 which will engage and motivate children and encourage them to see the world through their eyes as young historians.

 

Intent - What we want our children to achieve

• Have access to a broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated history curriculum by fulfilling the Educational Programmes (EYFS) and National Curriculum (Y1-6) for history through engaging enquiry-based lessons.
• To ensure that children have access to a high-quality curriculum for history with experiential learning experiences.
• To ensure that children understand the concept of chronology and how we can develop each child to become a chronological thinker.
• To develop the children’s understanding and use of historical vocabulary.
• To provide the children with a set of skills, which they can apply to other subjects as they progress through the education system and into society as citizens.
• To enrich each child’s cultural capital through high quality teaching and fostering an interest in and understanding of history.
• To provide children with an education that is supportive and engaging that will allow each child to make progress in history.

Implementation - How we teach history

• Use enquiry led learning through the Connected History schemes of work from years one to six.
• Planning is adapted from the Connected History schemes to fit the needs of the children and the locality of the school.  History is taught in three half-termly units is key stage one and key stage two.
• The EYFS includes historical skills and knowledge through Understanding the World and across the curriculum e.g. in Literacy and PSED.
• A variety of teaching and learning styles are used in history lessons, including discussions, presentations, representations, diagrams and images, research, visits, speakers, ICT and fieldwork.
• Where appropriate, English units are linked to history learning which results in high quality writing being produced.
• Visits, visitors and first-hand experiences that promote curiosity and provide children with key knowledge on a range of topics.
• Assess the children’s learning against the core learning and enquiry skills.

 

Impact - The difference our history curriculum makes

• Providing children with a set of skills to embed a lifelong love of learning.
• Connected History will provide all children with meaningful learning experiences that contribute to their cultural capital and understanding of events from the past and the impact that may have for the future.
• Children have a contextual understanding of the past and how this has had an impact on the future.
• Development of the children’s use and understanding of historical vocabulary to enable them use it across subjects and in day-to-day life, therefore developing life skills for the future.
• Opportunities for developing teachers’ pedagogy and subject knowledge through the planning and resources provided.
• Clear and accurate assessment for history.