Welcome to History

We study history because: 

• The past has led to the present, and knowing this empowers us.  

• We develop a complex range of skills which includes writing extended balanced arguments. This helps us to see and understand different points of view.  

• We can understand ourselves, our societies, our cultures in a local, national and global context. 

• We can contextualise and be critical of the vast amount of information to which we are exposed to through the media. 

"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." Romans 15:4

Through the History curriculum we are giving our students knowledge of the past and the wisdom that comes from that study.

Our students explore and therefore appreciate and uphold human dignity and equality, by studying periods in the past where dignity and equality was not upheld and needed to be fought for and achieved. We celebrate differences by studying the roots or our multicultural society. We teach courageous advocacy, by studying individuals and groups from the past who had to be actively courageous to affect change for the better. This acts as a model for our students to empower them to become courageous advocates themselves and to be active participants in their community. This also upholds our school values of faith, excellence and kindness.  

We backwards plan from KS5, and ensure that those who chose to not continue with history after the end of year 9 have been exposed to a broad and balanced curriculum, that will enable them to have a sound chronology of history through a knowledge rich curriculum of Britain and the wider world. They will also have developed their ability to write a balanced argument, historical explanation, and analysis/evaluation of sources. They will also study the idea of interpretations, and that historians and individuals have differing views on historical events. This fortifies them in their future study and in their lives, upskilling them in how they able to articulate themselves both orally and in writing. All of this gives the children the skills, knowledge, and cultural capital that they will need to be active contributors to their society throughout their lives. 

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