History

At Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy, we believe that the history curriculum should enable our children to build a knowledge and understanding of the past which will stimulate their curiosity to know more about the past in Britain and the wider world.  Children learn how to work as historians, developing their skills to think critically, ask questions, think deeply about evidence and draw conclusions from this.  Our curriculum will endeavour to teach children to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change and the diversity of societies and beliefs as well as appreciating their own identity and the challenges in their time.

Our history teaching meets the aims of the national curriculum and ensures children are able to:

• gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world 

• develop a sense of chronology and the passing of time and an ability to place significant events and societies within it

• understand that history is based on evidence and different kinds of historical sources and that there may be a different interpretation of those facts 

• ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement

• begin to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and the relationship between different groups 

• draw comparisons and make connections between different time periods and their own lives.