History
Subject Overview: History
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Curriculum aims: Key Stage 1:
Key Stage 2:
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Our pedological approach to teaching this subject in the Robert Piggott CE Schools:
Where appropriate, we link history to other subjects, aiming for children to develop an understanding of how past events influence how we live today.
Children are encouraged to enquire, and to use a range of different sources to find answers to their questions. They are helped to develop their questioning and understanding through classroom and personal enquiry, research and discussion.
In Key Stage One we investigate our own family history, timelines, dinosaurs, the Great Fire of London and several important historical figures.
In Key Stage Two: Phase 1: the focus is on the Stone Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Egyptians and a local study. Phase 2: we investigate the Victorians, World War 2, Ancient Greece, the Mayans and Crime and Punishment through the ages.
Across the schools we encourage the children to identify the differences between historical eras and practices compared to those today, and consider why they might have changed. As children are able, we support them in debating how and why attitudes and life have changed. |