History

At Barton Hill Primary Academy, we believe that high-quality History lessons inspire children to want to know more about the past and to think and act as historians. The History curriculum in Key Stages One and Two seeks to give pupils a solid foundation and broad overview in some of the most important periods, events and themes in local, national and world history. 

We teach History using the Ark Curriculum + program of study.  This is a carefully sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum, based on the best available research and evidence on what pupils need to know and retain as well as how they learn, memorise and practice what they have learnt.

We develop children with the following essential characteristics to help them become historians:

• An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods, including significant events in Britain’s past;

• The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas confidently to a range of audiences;

• The ability to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using historical evidence from a range of sources;

• The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past by formulating and refining questions and lines of enquiry;

• A respect for historical evidence and the ability to make critical use of it to support their learning;

• A desire to embrace challenging activities, including opportunities to undertake high-quality research across a range of history topics;

• A developing sense of curiosity about the past and how and why people interpret the past in different ways.

Find out what we are learning this term