History
History: Intent and Implementation
Intent
History is an important part of the broad and balanced curriculum offer at Hazelwood. Our approach allows children to engage and reflect on moments throughout history that have changed the world. Pupils will acquire an understanding of the past and gain knowledge of people, places and significant events through time. We believe our history curriculum will give children the opportunity to develop their ability to ask perceptive questions, think critically, analyse evidence, develop judgement and understand different perspectives. With clear historical perspectives pupils will be empowered to be active global citizens.
At Hazelwood Academy, the teaching of history follows the Ark Curriculum + approach which is a high quality knowledge-based curriculum. The Ark Curriculum+ approach is centred around four core pillars: historical enquiry, historical knowledge, historical concepts and communicating historical findings. The children will gain a deeper insight into these four pillars each year as the skills are progressive.
Implementation
A range of history and geography units are taught for each year group across the academic year. These are taught in two-hour sessions.
In EYFS, pupils explore the past within their living memory, discuss characters from past stories and significant individuals in history.
In KS1, pupils develop their understanding of the past beginning with familiar objects and places within living memory before moving beyond living memory.
In Year 2 they move on to understanding the lives of significant people and a more deeper understanding of events beyond living memory.
In KS2, the curriculum is split into two strands:
The first strand is a study of Britain’s past. The units are taught chronologically across KS2 from the Stone Age in Year 3, the Roman invasion in Year 4 and ending with the Battle of Hastings in Year 5.
The second strand is understanding civilisations around the world. These units about world civilizations have been linked to the geographic studies of continents focused on in each year group.
For SEND learners this means:
pre-teaching subject vocabulary to decrease the vocabulary gap.
adapting resources and teaching to provide enhanced opportunities to record and experience learning.
