Intent:

At St Mary's Academy we want our children to understand how past events and people have shaped their lives today.

We will:

• Ensure children have a clear chronological understanding of history
• Enable every child to develop in terms of their moral, spiritual and cultural development
• Ensure history develops the children's understanding of justice, courage and moral choices
• Make direct links between our local and national community
• Place a high demand on knowledge in history
• Enrich pupils through trips, visitors and experiences
• Develop our children's vocabulary, reasoning skills and understaning of the world around them to prepare them to be resilient citizens of the future
• Prepare children to be ambitious in an ever-changing world

Implementation:

Our Kapow Primary History Cirriculum ensures we are able to fulfil these promises by:

• Ensuring full coverage of the National Cirriculum
• Providing learning opportunities that ignite curiosity, nuture critical thinking and develop a comprehensive understanding of local, national and global history
• Supporting chronology using a timeline to help children to create a mental map of historical events, facilitating connects and analysis throughout their learning
• Ensuring secure knowledge development through five key strands: Topic knowledge, chronological awareness, substantive concepts, disciplinary concepts and historical enquiry
• Teaching British history chronologically through the school
• Providing a rich range of historical sources to develop historical inquiry skills