“Study the past if you would define the future.”
Confucius
Redriff’s History Curriculum Intent
Our curriculum:
- inspires pupils and gives them a sense of excitement from learning about their place in the history of human civilisation
- helps pupils to understand their identity and builds a sense of belonging by recognising their story within the local community, the history of Britain and the wider world
- combines both knowledge about the past and knowledge about how to investigate the past so that pupils can construct claims, arguments and accounts
- provides pupils with knowledge of how past societies in Britain and the wider world were built, operated and changed over time and how these societies influenced others.
- enables pupils to make connections and comparisons with contemporary society.
- introduces pupils to the core historical concepts that are revisited over time in different contexts so that pupils have the opportunity to build and strengthen their understanding of these key ideas.
Redriff’s History Curriculum Implementation
Our curriculum:
- is topic based with cross-curricular links
- combines a well-sequenced, rich body of substantive knowledge, historical skills, concepts and the school’s golden threads
- has an emphasis on enquiry where children investigate historically framed questions linked to the National Curriculum
- builds experiential knowledge through museum visits, handling artefacts and carefully planned fieldwork
- is underpinned by ambitious, high-quality vocabulary
- is designed and informed by subject specialists, subject organisations and museums in the locality
- is adapted to meet the needs of all pupils
- is assessed with pre and post learning tasks
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey
Redriff’s History Curriculum Impact
Our children:
- have a good understanding of local and British history, its key events and individuals, and that of the wider world
- are inquisitive about people’s stories and the development of different societies
- are able to frame and answer historical enquiries through research and analysis
- develop enquiring and critical minds, are able to ask and answer questions of a range of historical sources
- are able to make connections between events in the past and the world today
- are able to eloquently and confidently communicate their historical knowledge and opinions
- develop a passion for history
Pupil voices:
“History is about exploring the past and examining things that have happened before us.”
“History is what happened before us, it can anything that has happened before this moment in time. That’s why I like it, even your breakfast is in history!”
“I like learning about the great people of the past. I really like learning about women in history because there a lot of black and white women who were great monarchs.”
“I like learning about what happened before because you can then learn from it and improve it for the future.”
“I like learning about inventions like toilets and houses.”
“I learnt about Boudicca, she was amazing!”