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Intent
Intent
The aim of our history curriculum is that all children will develop the traits necessary to become ‘Historians’. These are outlined below:
At Dussindale Primary School we believe that a high quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past, the local area and that of the wider world. History inspires pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and to begin to understand how one element of the past influenced the next, and how these have impacted our lives today.
At Dussindale Primary School, our History curriculum is designed to inspire pupil’s curiosity about the past and what we can learn from it. Pupils will gain clear knowledge and understanding of their world and the chronology of events that have led us to where we are at today.
The teaching of History at Dussindale equips 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.
Within our history curriculum substantive knowledge (our "Golden Threads") is deliberately and explicitly taught and organised in a meaningful fashion, towards answering (and, where appropriate, asking) disciplinary appropriate questions. Our curriculum goes beyond the national curriculum, with a number of post 1066 studies selected. This is to allow pupils to leave Key Stage 2 with a broad overview of world history across centuries, allowing them to better understand the world around them as well as the discipline of history.
The expectation is that, by the end of primary school, children will know and understand these key elements of ‘Working as a Historian’ to give them a solid foundation to enter the History Curriculum at KS3.
Implementation
Implementation
At Dussindale we take an enquiry-based approach to teaching History whereby each unit of work is framed upon a key question that guides the teaching. Across the whole school curriculum, children study the key historical concepts of: chronology, significance, change and continuity, sources of evidence, cause and consequence and interpretation. These are taught within the historical contexts outlined within the National Curriculum, using KeyStage History planning as a guide for teachers.
In EYFS, children begin to develop an awareness of past and present through the use of pictures of familiar situations from the past, stories, accounts of the past and studying artefacts, whilst looking for similarities and differences. Our children have opportunities to begin to order events in their own lives to develop a sense of chronology.
In KS1 and KS2, writing is woven into History units and enrichment activities are planned in order to help immerse the children in the area of history being studied, helping to make the learning more memorable. Throughout their time at Dussindale children learn in History how aspirational individuals such as Mary Seacole, Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela helped to shape the world they live in, in addition to learning about key individuals through time in other areas of the curriculum including artists, musicians, explorers and designers.
Our History curriculum has been created to ensure our pupils develop an awareness of how the city of Norwich has changed over time, through studies into Robert Kett in KS2 and Norwich Castle in KS1 as well as visits to places of historical interest in the local area.
Measuring the Impact
Measuring the Impact
Our History Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and planned to demonstrate progression. If children are keeping up with the curriculum, they are deemed to be making good or better progress. Assessments are carried out at the beginning of each unit to assess the children’s prior knowledge as well as during the teaching of the History unit, where the children’s ability to retain and recall factual knowledge and secure key learning outcomes are assessed. This could be through a low stakes quiz, a short explanation, responding to or interpreting an image, explaining historical vocabulary, a double page spread or a long writing task. Books are monitored throughout the year and pupil voices are conducted to ensure the content/skills are covered as planned and that children are retaining their knowledge and understanding.
In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
•Reflecting on standards achieved against the planned outcomes
•Children retaining knowledge that is pertinent to History
•Children’s enjoyment of History lessons and keenness to find out more about the past
•Evidence of work showing a range of topics covered, including cross curriculum links
Norwich is a city steeped in history and we aim to help our children to recognise and appreciate this. As part of our History curriculum children experience visits to:
Strangers Hall
Norwich Castle
Gressenhall Museum
Duxford Air Museum
In addition to this classes experience:
A Viking Day
A Castle Day
A WW2 Home Front Immersive Day
An Egyptian Immersive Day
An Ancient-Greece Immersive Day
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