Subject Leader
The History subject leader is Mrs Green.
History Statement of Intent
Within both Key Stage 1 and 2, the history units are aligned to the National Curriculum statutory requirements for history by:
• following a carefully constructed and intentional curriculum design architecture to develop a chronological understanding of British, local, and world history
• require pupils to analyse connections, contrasts, and trends over time
• presenting and highlighting historical language through key vocabulary and key terms
• addressing and devising questions on change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance through the mapped-out disciplinary concepts
• constructing responses on historical information through lesson tasks and pupils’ enquiry question responses
• analysing a range of sources within lesson tasks and understanding how these have constructed our knowledge of the past.
Curriculum Implementation
At Holy Family Catholic Academy we use My Mastery Ark Curriculum Plus to teach our history curriculum. Our history curriculum is approached through an overall enquiry question which allows the substantive and disciplinary concepts to be explored. The enquiry question provides a focus for each unit with lessons sequenced to provide pupils with the knowledge and skills to plan and create successful responses in answering the enquiry question at the end of each unit.
All lessons allow pupils to revisit prior knowledge, encourage retrieval practice, learn new knowledge and make links in their learning.
