History
Intent, Implementation & Impact
Intent
Lavender Primary School's History curriculum aims to spark curiosity and creativity, encouraging students to become critical thinkers with a broad understanding of history across different scales. Our program, in line with the Kapow Primary scheme, promotes inquiry, evidence evaluation, and a grasp of historical complexity, reflecting our learning values of resilience, reflectiveness, independence, inclusivity, and diversity.
Students explore significant historical events and figures, developing an awareness of change and the interconnectivity of narratives. Our curriculum builds a strong chronological framework and interlinks various time periods, focusing on key concepts like power, invasion, and civilisation to prepare students for future learning and empathetic engagement with the world.
We integrate historical enquiry skills and understanding of historiography, exceeding National Curriculum targets and laying a solid foundation from EYFS to Key Stage 1 and beyond. Our commitment is to instil a passion for history that inspires students to learn from the past and contribute positively to the future.
Implementation
At Lavender Primary School, our History curriculum implementation aligns with the Kapow Primary scheme and our school values, ensuring a progressive and engaging learning experience. We structure our teaching around the National Curriculum and Ofsted Research review strands, focusing on:
We blend these strands into our units, encouraging students to approach history with curiosity and confidence. Chronological awareness is a key focus, with students developing a 'mental timeline' from EYFS through Key Stage 2, enabling them to place historical events and figures in context and identify connections and trends.
Key Stage 1 introduces foundational historical concepts, which are expanded upon and revisited in Key Stage 2, fostering deeper understanding. Our enquiry-based approach—Question, Investigate, Interpret, Evaluate and Conclude, Communicate—promotes critical thinking and historical analysis.
Our spiral curriculum model ensures students revisit key concepts and skills in varied historical contexts, surpassing National Curriculum standards and nurturing empathetic, informed citizens ready to engage with their communities and the broader world.
Impact
The impact of our History curriculum at Lavender Primary School is evaluated through ongoing assessments aligned with the Kapow Primary scheme. Teachers assess pupils against learning objectives with both lesson-specific feedback and end-of-unit quizzes to measure comprehension and skill retention.
Students completing their primary education at Lavender will have surpassed the National Curriculum's expectations, equipped with:
Comprehensive knowledge of Britain's and global history.
Understanding of key historical concepts like power, civilisation, and trade.
Skills to construct and analyse historical arguments and recognise cause and effect.
Awareness of significant historical individuals and events shaping the world.
Proficiency in historical enquiry and interpretation using various sources.
Ability to connect historical periods and concepts, fostering a proactive learning attitude.
Our students emerge as reflective and independent learners, empathetic to diversity, and ready to critically engage with history and the contemporary world.
Yearly Overview
Curriculum Progression Map
History Progression Map.pdf