History

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world!”

Nelson Mandela

“History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves and our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.”

Robert Penn Warren

Subject Coordinator: Mrs Louise Ord

Vision and INtent

At Cheadle Primary School our history curriculum aims to develop the 4 key historical skills, which are as follows:

Chronological understanding (when things happened, and what happened)
Accessing evidence (being able to understand evidence presented)
Using evidence (answering an enquiry question)
Historical Communication (presentation of some form)

This will be achieved by the study of historical periods, including local, national, and international history.

History Coordinator

Hello, my name is Mrs Ord and I have recently become the history subject coordinator at Cheadle Primary School. My job is to ensure that the teaching and learning of history is not only to the highest standard but is also engaging and rigorous.

At Cheadle Primary School, we aim to give our children coherent knowledge and understanding of the past of both Britain and the wider world ensuring chronology of events are explored and understood. The importance of local history is linked and embedded within the curriculum. We want our children to be curious, think critically, ask questions and develop their own opinions about the lives of other people as well as developing their own identity.

This is achieved through carefully sequenced lessons which allows for previous knowledge to be consolidated and new learning to be understood alongside enriching cross-curricular links.

If you have any questions about our history curriculum, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.

Curriculum and implementation

At Cheadle Primary School our history curriculum is based on a chronological path of study once the children reach KS2. In KS1, the children learn all about history in relation to themselves (living memory) as well as key historical figures and events.

In KS2 we cover topics from the Stone Age right the way up to modern history since 1948.

An average of 6-8 lessons per topic. The first few lessons of each topic will be spent on:

Securing the chronology of the topic (key events and people). To enable this, knowledge organisers, timelines, key words, and low-stakes knowledge quizzes.
Next section will be spent looking at evidence - primary and secondary, what can they teach us, Y5-6 look at interpretations and usefulness + purpose
Final 2-3 lessons will be spent planning and answering the stated enquiry question. The enquiry question will be clear and visible from lesson 1, and will give purpose to the topic
Last lesson will be presentation of answer - this will alter depending of the form of historical communication being developed.

Core Knowledge and skills

Please click on the links below to see our subject progression documents for history.

History Core Knowledge Progression document

History skills progression grid

History long term plan

assessment

The pupils will have developed the four skills and will have a secure understanding of the chronology of the UK and the wider world. To ensure this has occurred, the historical communication facet of the topic will have set success criteria which the teacher will utilise to assess progress and understanding. This success criteria will be differentiated to enable scaffolding and appropriate challenge levels.

If a pupil does not meet the success criteria, a short follow up task will be provided by the teacher to ensure the pupil develops in all necessary areas. This will be used in conjunction with in-class formative assessment and the regular low-stakes retrieval quizzes.

cultural capital and enrichment

Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.

In history, Cultural Capital can be gained in many ways;