History is often used as the starting point for planning cross-curricular learning in themed units. We aim to make the children's learning as experiential as possible, using workshops, artefacts, visiting experts and educational visits where appropriate to make learning enjoyable, meaningful and contextual.
We encourage pupils to not only learn about key people and events in history but also to understand what a historian does and how they find out about the past. We look at range of concepts and regularly provide opportunities for these concepts to be revisited and built on, helping the children to make links between events and periods of history and to help them develop a greater understanding of chronology.
The themes covered are planned within a 2 year rolling program, Year A and Year B.