History

Our vision for history is to ignite curiosity about the past, develop chronological understanding, and build essential skills like enquiry, analysis, and critical thinking, enabling children to understand how history shapes their identity, Britain, and the wider world, connecting past events, people, and changes to their present lives through a broad, engaging, and enquiry-based curriculum. The history curriculum at New Road Primary makes use of resources within the immediate and wider local area enabling children to develop a deep understanding of the rich history of their locality.

Curiosity & Enthusiasm: To foster a love for history and the past through engaging, varied, and real-life learning experiences.

Chronological Understanding: To develop a strong sense of time, sequence, and continuity from the Stone Age to the present day, understanding how things change.

Historical Skills: To equip pupils with skills to ask questions, investigate, analyse evidence, form arguments, and draw conclusions, acting like historians.

Identity & Context: To help children understand their own place in the world, their local heritage, British society and the diversity of cultures through historical knowledge.

Understanding Change: To explore the complexity of people's lives, the process of change, and the relationships between different groups over time, including themes like legacy, civilisation, inventions and migration.

Making Connections: To link historical periods, events and concepts, making relevant connections to the modern world and current issues.

We achieve this through:

Enquiry-Based Learning: Encouraging children to ask "why," "how," and "what if" questions and investigate using sources. Children also have the opportunity to complete independent research projects as part of each unit.

Local & Global Awareness: Studying local history alongside significant figures, events, and civilizations from Britain and the wider world.

Experiential Learning: Using artefacts, trips, visitors, and real-life contexts to bring history alive.

Concept Development: Teaching key historical concepts like cause and consequence, similarity and difference, and historical interpretation. Children need to develop a sense of chronology and be familiar with historical vocabulary. This will be enhanced by broadening children's real-life experiences both inside and outside of school through educational visits and visitors, artefacts and in particular, utilising the history of our locality.