History
Intent
At Collingwood Primary, our aspiration is to deliver a curriculum which gives children a lifelong love and passion for history: enabling them to see the value of the subject’s wide reaching and cross-curricular links. Our considered curriculum design equips our children with the substantive and disciplinary knowledge necessary to enable them to identify the relevance history has to their own lives and to develop a sound chronological history of Britain which is revisited and deepened as children progress on their historical journey through the school. We aim to achieve this by exploring and learning about key historical concepts which are woven throughout our curriculum and are readdressed and developed throughout a child’s time at Collingwood primary. Our intent is to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Through finding out about how and why our country, culture and local community have developed over time, children understand how the past influences the present, before broadening their horizons to world history through carefully considered, age-appropriate progression.
Implementation
Our history curriculum has been designed to cover the substantive and disciplinary knowledge as set out in the national curriculum. The curriculum is designed in a way to provide children with key substantive knowledge and facts relating to British history, and the wider world, and enable them to link these with previous knowledge acquired. The national curriculum for KS1 and KS2 for history aims for children to know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. At Collingwood, the careful sequencing of substantive content into a coherent curriculum supports children’s broad substantive knowledge development and repetition provides opportunities for retention. In addition to this, we provide children with key disciplinary knowledge, including progressed skill development in the key processes of history: chronological understanding, asking questions, using sources and interpretations of history, which are taught in an age-appropriate way and applied to any area of history studied. This approach provides pupils with the skills necessary to move through their historical skill development at Collingwood.
Impact
To ensure high standards of teaching and learning in history, we implement a curriculum that is progressive throughout the whole school. We ensure that pupils develop a secure knowledge that they can build on. The history curriculum, and subsequent planning, is created to enable access to content covered by all. Careful consideration is given to all planning to ensure that the needs of all children are met and so that they have the same access to an inspiring and motivational history curriculum. The curriculum is designed with historical rigour at the forefront and pushing and challenging all children in the classroom.
FS2
Throughout EYFS , we will be using our historical skills to study Transport past and present in Autumn term ,Lillian Bilocca in Spring term and life past and present in Summer term
Year 1
Throughout Year 1, we will be using our historical skills to study Amy Johnson in Autumn term , Queen Elizabeth II in Spring term and Seaside past and present in Summer term.
Year 2
In Year 2, we will use our topics to develop our historical skills. Our topics are The Great Fire of London, Explorers and Africa.
Year 3
Over the course of the year, Year 3 will develop their historical knowledge through the study of The Romans, The Stone Age and Hull's Zachiary Pearson.
Year 4
Within Year 4, our topics will help us develop our historical skills. Our topics are The Ancient Greeks, The Vikings and the South American Rainforests.
Year 5
Year 5 focus their learning on World War 2 in Auntumn term, Ancient Egypt in Spring term and Hull's fishing industry in Summer term.
Year 6
Year 6 will study Slavery in Autumn term, Shang Dynasty in Spring term and Crime and Punishment in Summer term.
