History
Intent
- To ensure high performance learning for all children
- To ensure children understand the chronology of the history of Britain and are able to make links and generalisations between the different time periods
- To use a wide range of thinking approaches to transfer knowledge of one era to another
- To thinking fluently and generate original ideas linking to previous knowledge
- To approach new topics in history by actively attempting to connect it to the era learn previously and hence determine a way to think about it in detail
- To make comparisons using understanding of culture and society of previous time periods studied
- To recognise how events of the past have affected us as modern day citizens and see alternative perspectives.
- To encourage historical skills of enquiry, research, investigation and analysis
- To commit to strong links between history and English through our melting curriculum and ensure children’s historical knowledge is sound, enabling them to immerse themselves in their English texts
Implementation
The Parkhill Melting Curriculum was devised in close communication with the English lead, to facilitate robust links and connections through high quality texts and history topics, ensuring high performance learning for all. Each book has been carefully chosen for children to use the knowledge from their history lessons to understand the context of the books they read and transfer knowledge from one circumstance to another. This method also meant the historical skills can be taught more explicitly, and the focus on the historical skills is more apparent in the history lessons. We believe that children can use their knowledge of one era and apply it to the next by extrapolating links and connections very quickly.
Each topic was chosen to be taught chronologically across KS2 so children are able to make links between what they have previously studied. At the end of each academic year, the overview is analysed to ensure the texts are still relevant to the topics being taught, whilst still enabling teachers to find links between history and English through texts set in the time the children are studying. Children will then be able to use some historical skills with ease.
Impact
Children’s learning is more in depth, by making links between subjects and referring to them more regularly. The importance of analysing how our modern society changed and adapted due to past events enables children to recognise the impact they also have as global citizens moving forward for the future, while encouraging them to think about why events happened and what we can learn from them. Children will be able to work with big ideas and holistic concepts and create new ideas through building on existing ideas or diverting from them, as this is the high performance learning belief.