Sundridge Primary School

                                              HISTORY AT SUNDRIDGE

Intent

History at Sundridge includes a coherently planned sequence of lessons to help teachers ensure they have progressively covered the skills and concepts required in the National Curriculum. Our History lessons develop historical skills and concepts which are transferable to whatever period of history is being studied and will equip children for future learning.

The coverage history in KS1 enables children to acquire an understanding of time, events and people in their memory and their parents’ and grandparents’ memories as well as studying events from beyond living memory which are significant events in history.

The intent in KS2 is that children can work in chronological order from ancient history such as ‘Ancient Egypt’ and then progress onto more modern history such as ‘The Railways’.

Children start to understand how some historical events occurred concurrently in different locations, e.g. Ancient Egypt and the Stone Age.

Implementation

In order for children to know more and remember more in each area of history studied, there is a structure to the lesson sequence whereby prior learning is always considered and opportunities for revision of facts and historical understanding are built into lessons, which allows for this revision to become part of good practice and ultimately helps build a depth to children’s historical understanding. Through revisiting and consolidating skills, our lesson plans help children build on prior knowledge alongside introducing new skills and challenge. The revision and introduction of key vocabulary is built into each lesson. This vocabulary is included in classroom display materials to ensure that children are allowed opportunities to repeat and revise this knowledge.

Through our lessons, we intend to inspire our pupils to develop a love of history and see how it has shaped the world in which they live.

Impact

The learning environment across the school is consistent with historical technical vocabulary displayed, spoken and used by all learners. Whole-school and parental engagement will be improved through the use of history-specific home learning tasks and opportunities for wider learning. We want to ensure that history is loved by pupils across school, therefore encouraging them to want to continue building on this wealth of historical knowledge and understanding, now and in the future. Impact can also be measured through key questioning skills built into lessons, child-led assessment such as success criteria grids, jigsaw targets and KWL grids and summative assessments aimed at targeting next steps in learning.