History
HISTORY
The intent of our history curriculum at Holt Farm Infant School is to instil a love and excitement of history in our children. Our aim is to give our children the knowledge and understanding of the past, to enable them to have a greater insight into the world and the community in which we live. By gaining an understanding of past achievements and experience, children will obtain their own sense of self and identify enabling them to become confident, knowledgeable, learners.
This will be achieved through creative, engaging and challenging lessons threaded throughout the curriculum. Children are encouraged to ask and answer historical questions and start to examine the validity and reliability of sources. To embed learning, children will gain real-life experiences inside and outside of school through educational trips, topic days and utilising local members of the community and their experience.
Curriculum
Basing our curriculum on the History National Curriculum ensures throughout KS1 there is progression in both historical skills and knowledge. There are long and medium term plans that ensure there is a consistent approach. This is then reviewed, adapted and can flex with the needs of the children.
The Progression of Skills document provides teachers with a detailed breakdown of skills for each year group and therefore ensures that children will progress through the school developing their skills and embedding their historical knowledge and understanding. This will be evident in books displays and pupil voice. Children use the key questions as a starting point for their own enquiry and opportunities are built in for children to reflect on their learning.
Cross-curricular outcomes in history are planned for, with links between the history curriculum and literacy lessons enabling further contextual learning. Children will practice and embed historical skills and knowledge through oracy. They will have the opportunity to build on their language and concept base through activities such as debating and presentations.
EYFS
Through implementing an exciting and engaging history curriculum at Holt Farm Infant School, children will develop a love for history. The children will know more, remember more and understand more. Children will have an understanding of their place within the world, how things have changed and why and they will learn lessons from history to influence the decisions that they make in the future.
We measure the impact of the history curriculum through each topic with key questions, tasks and quizzes as part of our formative and summative assessments.