Intent

At Our Lady of Grace, we aim to provide an enriching history curriculum, where children receive a purposeful, enquiry-based experience. Our pupils’ historical learning and thinking is developed and built throughout their time at school. The history curriculum we provide will enable pupils to answer questions, compare, reflect and comment upon key historical people and events. Every child will have the opportunity to gain historical knowledge through interpreting information from sources and experiences.

Implementation

Our History curriculum is taught:

• So that lessons are appropriately pitched and challenging and are designed to inspire and support learning, providing opportunities to explore the past.
• Through carefully sequenced lessons that demonstrate progression building upon prior knowledge and enabling children to apply it to new learning.
• To allow children to make links across the curriculum through topic based learning.
• Using timelines so that chronology is embedded and children understand how different periods of history link together.
• By ensuring that key vocabulary is incorporated alongside different sources of evidence – both primary and secondary – to help bring history to life within the classroom.
• Through historical visits and activities where children are able to develop a greater understanding of the past in their local area and across the world.
• To foster a love of the subject and become passionate historians who have the skills they need to uncover the past.

Impact

The impact of the History curriculum at Our Lady of Grace can be seen through:

• Clear evidence that our children have shown progress and attainment in line with the National Curriculum
• Our children demonstrate enthusiasm for the subject and can talk with confidence about history
• Our children demonstrate an understanding of a range of historical vocabulary which can be applied confidently
• As historians, our children can use their skills to pose questions, evaluate evidence and draw conclusions