"History is the great teacher of life."

St. John Paul II

INTENT

At St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, we are budding HISTORIANS!

Our intent is that our curriculum creates awe and wonder through secondary sources, role-playing, drama, artefacts and interactive workshops. Through inquisitive learning, we teach our children how to analyse, debate, evaluate, understand and empathise with events of the past. In our school, history is so much more than a record of the past – it is the examination of the past which demands critical use of evidence.

IMPLEMENTATION

The Grammarsaurus Curriculum enables us to carry out our vision perfectly through the concepts of Society and Community, Exploration and Invasion, Conflict and Disaster, and Power. All of these themes contain the important skills progressions of chronology, evidence and interpretation, cause and consequence, change and continuity, similarity and difference and historical significance. This ensures whole school consistency and progression, as well as an assurance that pupils have developed an awareness of the past in order that they can learn for themselves how to think critically and how to make good choices for a brighter and better future. We teach two history units over the course of the academic year for one hour per week.

IMPACT

We use continuous assessment to monitor our teaching of history through learning in class discussions and evidence in children's books. We use Pupil Voice as a valuable tool, providing the children with an opportunity to speak as historians, and we track pupil progress measured against historical skills three times a year on FTT.