History
Overview
Intent, Implementation and Impact
History Intent, Implementation and Impact
Intent
At Summerfield Primary School history education should be fully inclusive to every child. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for history, providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum helping pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. Thus ensuring the progressive development of historical concepts through knowledge and skills hence will enable children to develop a love for history.
Furthermore, we aim to inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past.
History teaching at Summerfield Primary School has a wide application to everyday life, teaching the children to enjoy learning about the world and to have a better understanding of how people lived in different locations in the past.
Our history curriculum is designed to develop children’s curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Also sending them into the wider world with skills that will make future teachers, archaeologists, curators, archivist, heritage manager to name a few.
The aims of teaching history in our school are:
- To enable children to know and understand the history of chronological narrative, from
the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how
Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. - To know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature
of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features
of past non European societies. - To 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. - To 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. - In Early Year history is taught through the area of ‘Understanding The world: People and
Communities’. In Early Years setting, teaching is taught through topics and not stand
alone lessons. Therefore, the children’s interests and activities are cross curricular and
