Intent
Our aim for History at Mercenfeld Primary school is to offer high quality education in order to inspire children’s curiosity about the past and enable them to ‘develop coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain and the wider world.’ Through developing children’s enquiry skills, we aim to equip children to become critical thinkers and perceptive learners.
History is delivered through subject specific teaching organised within an overarching topic theme. Meaningful links are then made with other subjects in order to strengthen connections and understandings for pupils.
At Mercenfeld Primary School, we have designed our history curriculum with the intent that our children will:
- Develop an understanding of chronology.
- Learn about significant events in British history, European history and the wider world.
- Discover links and connections between the history they learn and the wider community and locality.
- Further their knowledge and understanding of change and continuity over time.
- Analyse and differentiate between source types and how interpretations in history may vary.
- Develop the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis, evaluation, debate, problem solving and presentation.