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At Leigh on Mendip School, we believe that a strong history curriculum should ignite pupils’ curiosity about the past and help them understand how history has shaped the world they live in today. Through exciting topics and real-life connections, we aim to make history meaningful, memorable and accessible to all children.
Throughout their time at Leigh on Mendip, pupils explore five key historical concepts, including:
Similarity and Difference
Comparing life in different times and places.
Cause and Consequence
Exploring why events happened and what changed as a result.
Evidence and Interpretation
Understanding how we know about the past and how it is represented.
Chronology
Understanding timelines and when events happened.
Significance
Recognising why certain people or events mattered.
Implementation
Implementation
History is taught through engaging, topic-based units that are carefully mapped across the school to ensure progression in knowledge, skills, and understanding.
Key Features of Our Approach:
Chronological understanding is built year by year, starting with changes within living memory in EYFS and KS1, moving through ancient civilisations, and ending with more complex historical themes by Upper Key Stage 2.
Each topic includes enquiry-based questions to drive learning and spark curiosity.
Lessons incorporate artefacts, role play, historical sources, storytelling, and digital resources to bring history to life.
We make strong use of local history and fieldwork, helping children see the relevance of history in their own community.
Vocabulary is explicitly taught and revisited to build pupils’ historical language.
Where appropriate, we link history to other subjects such as English, art, and geography, creating a rich, connected learning experience.
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