Our history curriculum aims for our children to make progress through continual opportunities to apply their accumulating knowledge. The content of our curriculum is focused on providing opportunities for the children to recall prior learning and build upon their knowledge and skills through meaningful links within and across subjects. The areas of learning and the order in which it is taught has been carefully considered and based around concept planning. This allows an investigative approach where abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘migration’ and ‘civilisation’ are the drivers of our planning.

As a Rights Respecting school, our children’s history learning is further supported by explicit reflection on the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups in relation to the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Questions of social justice and inequality are continually explored and considered in relation to the experiences of children in the past.

When considering the complexity of people’s lives and the challenges of their time, the children also reflect on the identity and character of historical figures and of their own identity and place, through our Christian Values.

At All Saints’, we believe that understanding history gives us a better understanding of the world, of our communities and of ourselves.