History

History Programme of Study

At St. Willibrord’s, we believe that our curriculum should allow our pupils the chance to explore history in a way that will give them the cultural capital to understand significant events and time periods on local, national and global levels. Our pupils will get the chance to learn in an environment that allows curiosity to prosper and for them to challenge and ask questions of people, places and events, allowing them to gain further insight into the world that they see today and how it has been shaped by events in the past.

Our History curriculum will enable our pupils 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
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

Our  Curriculum Overview  for each year group

Our  Progression Document for each year group