- Historical learning is woven throughout the curriculum with children developing their historical skills and knowledge as they move through the school.
- Children learn about events in living memory and the lives of significant people
- Children begin each year by learning about the life of the person their class is named after.
- In Key Stage Two, children begin to develop their understanding of chronology and focus on timelines and dates.
- Children are able to talk about how we learn about the past and how we know about life before written record.
- Children know that history is pieced together using information from people of the time and that this can be seen differently by different people.
- Children understand that we can learn from the past and use the past to understand ourselves.
- Children enter into discussions about big ideas; race, religion and equality and use history to reflect on these issues.
- Children connect historical learning with historical art works and can think about what that represents.
- Through museum learning, children understand that objects tell stories and that items from the past need to be looked after and protected.
- Children develop empathy by understanding lives from the past and comparing them to their own.
History subject journey
History visual map
