History
History Intent
At Holmes Chapel Primary School, we aim for all our children to develop a love of history and to be inspired, curious and knowledgeable about the past. Through rich memorable historical learning experiences, our children develop an understanding of their locality, its place within history and they gain a coherent knowledge about Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Children discover how people’s lives have shaped the nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. Through working as historians, and knowing how historians work, our children develop independence to ask and answer historically valid questions; think critically about changes, causes and consequences and they use a range of sources of evidence from the past, to make comparisons and give reasons for their own opinions using historical vocabulary. Children also apply their deepening knowledge and understanding of local, British and world history by creating their own structured historical accounts, including written narratives within and across historical periods studied.
What does our learning in History look like?
Substantive Threads:
Homes and Settlements
Trade and Transport
Innovations and Achievements
Governance
Historical Concepts:
Continuity and Change
Cause and Consequence
Similarity and Difference
Significance
Evidence and Interpretation
Our Curriculum
EYFS
During the Early Years Foundation Stage, learning is structured around themes each term and historical enquiries that link to specific areas of the Development Matters Early Years Foundation Curriculum as follows:
Marvellous Me; Fabulous Festivals; Space and Sky;Journeys; Olympics (including transport)
Year 1
Local Study: Houses over time
Homes and life in London
Great Fire of London
Year 2
The Lives of Children During WW2
Local Study: A famous landmark- The History of Jodrell Bank
Year 3
Changes in Britain- Stone Age to Iron Age
Ancient Egypt
Year 4
Ancient Greece
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
Year 5
Britain’s settlement by the Anglo-Saxon and Scots and the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
Baghdad c. AD900- a non-European society
Year 6
Local Study: Transport - an aspect in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066