At Stocksfield Avenue Primary School, our aim is to develop and ignite our children’s curiosity to know more about the past through a history curriculum that is accessible for all. Our curriculum is designed to support pupils in recognising what it means to be a historian and is progressively sequenced to develop their skills and knowledge with opportunities to know more, remember more and understand more.

We want our children to become skilled in working as historians by posing perceptive questions, weighing evidence, sifting arguments and formulating their own opinions. Our teaching of history will help our children to gain a secure knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world whilst allowing them to make comparisons with historical periods taught through the development of chronology.

As a school with a richly diverse community, it is important that we want our children to develop a sense of their own identity as well as recognising these relationships between different groups and the challenges that may have posed during those times. We want them to also understand how the past has shaped the present and the impact it will have on the future. At the heart of our curriculum and intwined with the skills and knowledge is the importance of vocabulary and oracy to allow our children to articulate and use language succinctly when working as a historian.

In our history lessons, we believe it is important to provide our children with a hand on and practical experience through the use of high quality historical resources, artefacts as well as learning being enriched and enhanced through engaging historical visits and visitors. Many aspects of our history teaching and learning are underpinned by Key Stage History to support the curriculum. While it may be the “stories” of history that capture our children’s attention, it is an understanding of the concepts detailed below that characterises effective history teaching at Stocksfield Avenue.

Historical Concepts:

Time and Chronology

Cause and Consequence

Historical Significance

Historical Evidence and Enquiry

Continuity and Change