History - Intent, Implementation & Impact
Intent
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At Cedarwood we recognise that high-quality history teaching will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world and inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Our curriculum aims to equip pupils with the confidence and competence to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. We appreciate the significant role History plays in helping 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. Through the teaching of History, we aim to develop in pupils an appreciation of their own and others' heritage and help them to use what has gone before to prepare them for their futures. |
Implementation
At Cedarwood, The National Curriculum is used as a basis upon which to plan skills and knowledge progression and lessons are brought to life through the use of high quality resources, visits and visitors. Topics are planned to engage, inspire, support and challenge all pupils and equip them with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to help them better understand and appreciate key events and people of the past and their influence on the present and future.
The National Curriculum aims for History to ensure that all pupils:
- know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
- know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
- gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
- understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
- understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
- gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts: understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales
Impact
It is our aim that by the end of their time with us, all of our pupils will have developed an historical inquiring mind and deep cultural respect for others and their societal contributions, that they will have gained a strong understanding of chronology and the historical figures and events that have influenced their own and others’ lives, and can use this to prepare them for their futures.