ACRE HEADS PRIMARY SCHOOL

Our History curriculum uses the National Curriculum aims as a basis for our curriculum planning in history, integrating a sequential development of knowledge whilst developing a range of skills and expansion of vocabulary across all key stages.

Overarching curriculum themes are planned through the school with specific historical themes detailed in the History Long Term Plan (LTP). These themes and associated objectives form the Scheme of Work for each year group ensuring a basis of retrieving and developing knowledge as detailed in the History Road Map.

This ensures that the our scheme of work identifies what pupils already know before outlining the new learning in the next stage of the learning journey. Children will use their knowledge about the past (substantive knowledge) and their knowledge about how historians investigate the past and how they construct historical claims, arguments and accounts (disciplinary knowledge). These are detailed through the year group’s knowledge organisers.

Scheme of Work Structure

Lesson 1
Establish what the children already know from previous themes and introduce three key enquiry questions. Children are given the opportunity to create their own lines of enquiry, with the aim of answering all questions by the end of the theme. Our initial focus is chronology; ensuring pupils understand where their new unit of learning fits in relation to historical periods previously studied.

Unit Lessons
Throughout the unit of work, pupils acquire new knowledge, skills and experiences as they delve into the past. Each lesson begins with a retrieval activity, designed to revisit previous learning and strengthen the recall of key and sticky knowledge.

Summary
The unit of learning finishes with a summary of the period studied. The enquiry questions from the beginning of the theme, including the pupil lines of enquiry, are revisited to ensure these have been answered.

Our pupils study the past through a range of different timescales. They have the opportunity to learn about a range of historical places, societies and cultures. Their studies build on established knowledge, vocabulary and enhances their knowledge by referencing other time periods, deepening their understanding (Romans – Vikings invaders).

Our children learn about a range of different types of historical enquiry; social, political, economic and cultural history. Our curriculum prepares pupils for life in modern Britain and supports pupils to make sense of their own experiences and identity within their local community, Britain and the world.