History

Intent

At Flora Gardens, we believe that high-quality history lessons inspire children to develop curiosity about the past and to think and act as historians. Through teaching rooted in Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, our curriculum is carefully sequenced and revisited to ensure children retain key knowledge and skills over time.

By linking learning to a wide range of topics, children are given opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s history as well as that of the wider world, and communicate their ideas historically.

We aim to develop children with the following essential characteristics of historians:

  • A secure knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods, including significant events in Britain’s past.
  • An understanding of chronology, which underpins their developing sense of period, as well as key historical concepts such as change and causation.
  • The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas with confidence to different audiences.
  • The ability to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using evidence from a range of historical sources.
  • The skills to 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 use it critically to support their learning.
  • A developing curiosity about the past and an awareness of how and why it can be interpreted in different ways.

How Parents Can Help

A good way to help is visit museums, historic houses and talk about the topics that your child is learning about in school. The children who love history are often the ones who have seen a love of the past in their parents. There are many free museums, especially in London. Use them as a resource and spend time sharing the past together. Otherwise, watch age-appropriate history programmes on TV.

There are some fantastic children’s books based in the past. Whilst these are often fiction, there will be facts and figures in the books that children will remember. Some good examples include anything by Caroline Lawrence (The Roman Mysteries), Goodnight Mr Tom (WW2 and evacuation), Stig of the Dump (Clive King) and picture books or non-fiction books which you can share at bedtime.

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