History
History teaching focuses on enabling children to think as historians and bring history to life. We place an emphasis on historical skills enabling children to learn about the past through these key skills.
History
History teaching focuses on enabling children to think as historians and bring history to life. We place an emphasis on historical skills enabling children to learn about the past through these key skills.
We use a variety of primary and secondary sources and help the children to understand that historical events can be interpreted in different ways. At Holy Trinity we recognise the fact that in all classes there are children of widely-different abilities in history and we seek to provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by:
- setting common tasks which are open-ended and can have a variety of responses
- setting tasks of increasing difficulty (not all children complete all tasks)
- providing resources of different complexity and allowing the child to choose
- allowing children to work together to help each other with a common task
History contributes to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils by considering ways in which the past has shaped the present. By exploring the lives of people through the ages, children are encouraged to consider their own values and attributes.