History Progression of Skills
At Queen Victoria, we aim to make history learning engaging with a focus on developing historical enquiry and chronological understanding. The study of history inspires children’s curiosity, encourages them to ask critical questions, validate sources of information and enables them to have a better understanding of the society they live in and the wider world around them.
Our history curriculum is knowledge-rich, with elements of local history developing children’s understanding of Sedgley as well as ensuring National Curriculum coverage. In addition, the study of key figures in recent history will help our children’s understanding of how society as we know it has been formed over time and how humanity has learned from mistakes that have been made.
Finally, children undertake a study of a great era of human development from around the world, giving opportunities for children to understand and develop a sense of the present, by understanding the journeys of the past. This balanced approach is supported by skills that are progress through the years and are taught through rich and immersive learning journeys.
History is taught in half termly units that have a ‘big question’. Each lesson then has a line of enquiry to help the pupils to answer part of the big question. At the end of the unit children are then able to answer this question. This enables the children to gain historical knowledge and also to use and apply historical skills.
