History Department
Director of Teaching and Learning:
Mr C Hughes
Head of subject:
Miss M Wright
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The national curriculum for History aims to ensure that all pupils:
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know and understand the chronology of British history including how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
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know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world including non-European societies
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gain an understanding of and be able to use a abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
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understand historical concepts such as continuity and change cause and consequence, similarity and difference and significance and use these concepts to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
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understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and to discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
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