INTENT - BECOMING A HISTORIAN 

A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

IMPLEMENTATION

We use the scheme My Rising Stars which teaches the 7 core substantive strands that run through our History curriculum alongside topic knowledge and chronological knowledge. . Each unit will have a key concept as its focus but will always incorporate others.  

Each strand has a progression in knowledge and skills, detailed in this document, that link the topic areas together.

Alongside these we have 5 second order concepts – Historical Interpretation of the Past, Cause and Consequence, Change and Continuity, Similarity and Difference, and Historical Significance.

Rising Stars History is a complete curriculum programme for primary history which provides 18 half-termly units of work to ensure pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s history, their locality and the history of the wider world. It offers complete coverage of the National Curriculum Programme of Study for History (2014) and supports meeting the criteria of the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (2019).

The units have key questions to develop the use of historical enquiry, as well as a focus on the acquisition and application of key subject knowledge, concepts and vocabulary throughout. Skills, knowledge and understanding in history progress through Year 1 to Year 6, being taught, developed and applied throughout the schemes of work.

A range of opportunities are provided to enable all pupils to communicate their knowledge and understanding of the subject. Links are made within and across units to support pupils in making connections and in developing a strong overview of chronology, breadth and local to global history. Rising Stars History offers complete coverage of the National Curriculum Programme of Study for History (2014).

History is taught in termly blocks alongside History, this enable children to focus on either Geography or History within a term.