History

Our vision for history at Radford is to create independent and knowledgeable individuals that have high aspirations for themselves and are curious and inquisitive about their past: and others that have shaped the world we live in today. They will achieve this through a variety of experiences ; communication opportunities and cross curricular learning including a wider use of technology. Our History curriculum has incorporated the statutory guidance as well as reflecting our local history and the history of the pupils that attend.

Our Intent:

To teach the content of the National Curriculum in an engaging and purposeful way to enthuse students to learn about their own personal history and the history of significant people, places and events that have helped shaped our local community as well as the wider world.
To stimulate their interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past and to help children understand society and their place within it, so they can develop a sense of their cultural heritage and identity.
To develop their skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis, evaluation and presentation through opportunities to develop Oracy skills and enable them to take an objective viewpoint and to critically look at differing viewpoints and present their own opinions backed up by high quality research.
To provide first hand experiences wherever possible, using both primary and secondary sources, including the use of technology, to look at and interpret evidence from a range of different sources and experiences .
To provide children with lifelong skills that can be applied not only to history but across the curriculum to help them embrace challenges and be confident in expressing themselves and their ideas in different ways.

The children will be able to make links to prior learning through our 6 areas –

Role of women
Local History
Rulers/Leaders
Society
Diversity
Childhood

This will create threads of knowledge that the children will master and be able to refer back to year on year building their knowledge of chronology.

This is accompanied without skills progression that builds year on year that covers the concepts of:

Chronological awareness
Knowledge and Understanding
Organise, Evaluate and communicate information
Historical Understanding
Historical Enquiry

Our Intent:

Key Documents

Enrichment