Impact

Through formative assessment within each lesson and across each unit as a whole, we can identify the impact of our history curriculum by based on the children’s ability to demonstrate:

- An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods, including significant events in the local area and also Britain’s past.

- The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas in a range of ways to different audiences.

- The ability to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views, using historical evidence from a range of sources.

- The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past by formulating and refining questions and lines of enquiry.

- A respect for historical evidence and the ability to make critical use of it to support their learning.

- A developing sense of curiosity about the past and why people lived and made choices as they did.

- An understanding of chronology, by referencing our Bible and classroom timelines and also regular and relevant discussions about different periods in time and where they would fit onto our timelines.

We at St. Stephen’s also aim to use our teaching of history to consolidate and improve children’s reading and written skills, with the standard of children’s work matching that of the core subjects.