History

The Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children study history through topics and themes.

Sometimes themes may be specific to history, e.g. castles or famous people. Sometimes they may be more general, e.g. the topic ‘Ourselves’ provides an opportunity to look at grandparents.

History in KS2 not only looks at specific periods in history, such as the Anglo Saxon period or Ancient Egypt, but also covers themes over a wider period of time such as invasion, rich and poor and crime and punishment.

The skills associated with history are also developed through a spiral curriculum, children learn about primary and secondary sources of evidence, how to research using books and the internet and how to investigate different accounts of the same event. There is a key focus on chronology and the understanding of how historical events impact on our lives today.