History
History is vital to a rich and broad primary education. At Norbriggs Primary, we want children to enjoy learning about the past.
In line with the National Curriculum, we want pupils to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We want our history curriculum to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past.
Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, discuss, 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.
KAPOW History
We plan for History using the National Curriculum objectives and KAPOW to ensure a robust and thorough approach.
These key concepts form building blocks of progress in terms of knowledge, skills and understanding as the children progress through school. When a new unit of work is introduced, links are made to prior learning within the concept, together with what learning will come in the next phases, so the children are clear how what they have been taught before, can be used to support their new learning, and how this will feed into subsequent learning.
We ensure that previously taught concepts are regularly revisited. Pupils with SEND have full access to the History curriculum with individual or group support to enable them to secure their knowledge to access the content. We ensure pupils experience many educational visits to ensure rich first hand experiences.