History Curriculum
Vision
Pupils will have knowledge and understanding of the history of this country as a coherent, chronological narrative of the last thousand years. They will also learn how different experiences of groups and individuals have shaped this nation and how Britain has interacted with the wider world.
Pupils will also gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of key concepts such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry.’ They will also understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses.
They will understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
