History
History Skills Progression Ladder.
At Hinckley Parks Primary School, the intent of the history curriculum, we strive to inspire our children to become young historians. Our history curriculum breadth is shaped by the drivers that we feel are pertinent to our children’s backgrounds, beliefs and values. We are ambitious with the opportunities that we provide: teachers aim to equip each child with the vital background knowledge required to ask perceptive questions, think critically, and weigh evidence, sift arguments and to develop perspective and judgement. Our aim is to ensure that by the end of each key stage, children have a long-term memory of apurposeful body of knowledge. Our pupils will be able to relate previous learning to their current studies in
order for their knowledge of the past to be strong and meaningful. Through deep questioning and high- quality history subjects, our children will leave being able to understand the complexity of people’s lives and the diversity of societies. By effectively communicating their ideas about the past, children will demonstrate their understanding of how the past has helped to shape our world today. As far as possible, we try to link history topics with the literacy being taught to help pupils develop an in-depth understanding. We also use dress-up sessions in the form of immersion days where pupils experience life in that era, to enable pupils to more thoroughly understand what life was like in the past.
