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Intent

At Oak Tree Primary School, we provide an ambitious, high-quality history education which ensures pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Through a range of activities we inspire our pupils’ curiosity, challenge their perceived ideas and develop a secure understanding of chronology. We equip our pupils with the knowledge and skills to ask perceptive questions, think critically, evaluate evidence, construct arguments and make judgements about events and people from the past. 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 understand their own identity and the challenges of their time.

Curriculum Aims

  1. Know and understand the history of the U.K. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’ and ‘industry’.
  4. Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence, 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

 

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