History
At Annesley Primary and Nursery School, we believe that a high-quality history education helps children to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Our school is situated in an area rich in history, both ancient and recent, and we use this to stimulate children’s curiosity about the lives of people who lived in the past. We want pupils to enjoy all that history has to offer, to understand how their own lives and community are connected to the past, and to develop a sense of identity and cultural heritage.
Our curriculum is carefully sequenced so that pupils build a secure knowledge of significant people, events and periods (substantive knowledge) alongside the concepts and skills of historical enquiry (disciplinary knowledge): chronology, continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and the use of evidence and interpretations.
Pupils are taught to use precise historical vocabulary and abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘monarchy’ and ‘democracy’ in context. They learn to ask and answer perceptive questions, to weigh evidence, to understand why accounts of the past differ, and to construct their own structured accounts. Learning is reinforced through retrieval, local history, visits, artefacts and visitors, and through links with Geography, Art, English and PSHE.
By the end of Year 6, pupils leave Annesley Primary and Nursery School as curious, knowledgeable and thoughtful historians who can place the people, events and periods they have studied within a chronological framework, make connections and draw contrasts across time, use evidence to support their ideas, and understand how the past has shaped the world they live in.
Our ARCHIE framework embeds six core values across our curriculum – Ambition, Resilience, Confidence, Honesty, Independence, and Equality. Click on the link below to see how these values apply to History at Annesley Primary & Nursery School.