History
The purpose of history from the national curriculum programme of study: ‘A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, 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.’
Our ambition for history education:
We want our students to think and act like historians. We want all students to have a level of competence that will enable them to succeed in the subject at secondary school and beyond and instill in them a love and curiosity of history. Our curriculum is sequenced to ensure that historical skills are revisited regularly and these are built on and developed. We use a cross-curricular themed approach to fully immerse students in their learning.
How our local context is weaved into the curriculum
We are fortunate to be able to make historical links to the local area. We carry out studies of the village and Andover which has history linked to a range of eras.
Schemes of Learning
We have created schemes of learning to ensure that our history curriculum is effectively planned and sequenced. Schemes are based on our progression in skills and knowledge.. They provide teachers with the key objectives, prior learning, future learning, key vocabulary, assessment indicators, common misconceptions, and ideas for teaching and gathering evidence of learning they need to help us ensure that our history curriculum is implemented effectively and produces students who can demonstrate proficiency in the subject. Learning is driven by key questions and will be taught as a cross-curricular theme. Teachers are responsible for the integration of other subjects. However, they should make clear the subject focus in each lesson.