History

Course summary

In History, our intent is: • To create a broad and balanced knowledge and understanding of the history of Britain, set in the context of the wider world • To provide knowledge on a variety of events/ people for students to analyze and build their own judgements using those facts as evidence whilst developing students’ ability to undertake historical enquiry by asking and answering questions • To provide a diversity rich curriculum with regular connections to the local context through the teaching of history at different scales and different depths and breadths • To know and understand a wide variety of historical experiences through a study of social, economic, religious and political histories • To embed the secondary key concepts in history: causation and consequence, similarity and difference, change and continuity, significance, through a chronological study of the past