History

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Intent

At Sale and Davy School, we shape our history curriculum to ensure it is 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 that encompasses the British Values throughout; ensuring the progressive development of historical concepts, knowledge and skills; and for the children to study life in the past. At Sale and Davys Primary School we believe that high-quality history lessons inspire children to want to know more about the past and to think and act as historians. By linking learning to a range of topics, children have opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s past as well as that of the wider world, and to be able to communicate historically.

Our teaching equips pupils with knowledge about the history of Britain and how it has influenced and been influenced by the wider world; know and understand about significant aspects of the history of the wider world like ancient civilisations and empires; changes in living memory and beyond living memory; learn about the lives of significant people of the past; understand the methods of historical enquiry and be able to ask and answer questions. We want children to enjoy and love learning about history by gaining this knowledge and skills, not just through experiences in the classroom, but also with the use of fieldwork and educational visits.

Implementation

· The National Curriculum and skill progression grids are used to aid planning.

· Wave teaching is used in mixed age classes to ensure pupils have high quality inputs that are tailored to the needs of the individuals within the group.

· Scaffolding of tasks is used to provide the appropriate level of support so that all levels and abilities are given the opportunity to make progress in lessons and achieve objectives.

· Teaching assistants are used effectively to support all groups.

· Lessons are enquiry based

· Continual assessment is used to inform planning and provide next steps for learning.

· Timelines are displayed in each class and used to give a time reference for each topic.

· Each topic begins with a KWL grid which should be revisited throughout the topic.

· House challenges and half termly quizzes are used to “Know more, remember more”.

· Children have opportunities to make wider links with our community working with English Heritage to explore local history through St Wilfrid’s church.