History

“History is a living subject and one that prepares children for the future by helping them analyse the past.”

Hywel Roberts

National Curriculum

A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

Mission statement

A high-quality history education equips pupils to think critically, analyse evidence, develop arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. Our curriculum aims to teach British and world history together to ensure that the pupils understand the events that have shaped their lives today.

The aims of History education at Fairfield Road are:

To foster pupils’ enjoyment and interest in learning about the past.
To develop children’s knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past: how people and events have shaped the nation and how Britain has influenced the world.
To understand the significance of Britain in Britain’s History.
To develop pupils’ sense of chronology so that they understand British History as a coherent, chronological narrative and are also familiar with the broad outlines of European and world history.
To gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short and long-term timescales.
To develop children’s understanding of important historical concepts and abstract terms so that they can use them in discussions and written accounts of past events.
To develop in children the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis of evidence, evaluation and presentation.
To ensure that the personal history of all pupils is acknowledged.