History
At Bannerman Road Academy, we aim to offer a high-quality History education that will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We hope that our curriculum inspires our children and fosters their curiosity about the unknown, seeking to know more about the past.
The history curriculum at Bannerman Road teaches children to understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance. We teach children to develop historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts. We weave ‘golden threads’ of Empire, trade and technology throughout our enquiries. By focusing on these three key threads across the key stages, we develop children’s understanding by making connections, drawing contrasts and analysing trends. We sequence the disciplinary skills across KS1 and KS2, teaching the children to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. We encourage our children communicate in different ways, immersing them in language and supporting them to create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses.
History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups and this helps our children learn to be respectful, embrace difference and stand up for the rights of others. We have sequenced our curriculum to develop children’s understanding of significant aspects of the history of the wider world such as the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind. We want our children to think on a global and to know their place within the world. Our curriculum helps our children to understand the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.
History also helps children to understand their own identities. We develop children’s knowledge and understanding of the history of the United Kingdom as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day. We want children to understand how significant people have shaped our nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. We also draw upon our local history to develop our children’s understanding of how History has impacted their city.
