Welcome to our History page
Our curriculum aims to inspire our pupils with curiosity and fascination about History. We also want to equip them with knowledge about significant people, events and civilisations from the past and ensure they have the skills by the end of their primary journey to become historians that are secondary ready.
Through our progressive, enquiry based framework, children will develop a secure understanding of British History before looking at Ancient studies and the history of the wider world.
How we teach History
History teaching focuses on enabling children to think as historians. In each key stage we give the children the opportunity to visit sites of historical significance and where possible the opportunities to examine historical artefacts, both primary and secondary sources.
Keystage One
Pupils develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time. They know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different time periods. They use a wide range of vocabulary of historical terms. They ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know key features of events. They understand some ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.
In keystage one the pupils are taught about:
- Changes within living memory
- vents beyond living memory
- The lives of significant individuals
- Significant events, people and places in their locality
Keystage Two
Pupils continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear links within and across the periods they study. They note connections, change, cause, similarity and difference and significance. They understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
In keystage two the pupils will be taught about:
- Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
- The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
- Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
- The Industrialisation of Middlesbrough
- The ancient civilisations of Egypt, Greece and Maya
- World War Two
