History & Geography
Intent
At St James CofE Primary School, our History and Geography curriculum aims to: develop all children’s understanding of their place in the world by promoting their curiosity and fascination for the world around them.
Our history curriculum encourages our pupils to become active learners and develop their passion for history and a sense of who they are - locally, nationally and globally. Our aim is to develop well-rounded and successful historians, informed by the National Curriculum, and exposed to planned and differentiated lessons, taught with a clear history objective. Pupils will
develop their knowledge of chronology, allowing them to understand a sense of time and overall understanding of when events took place. In addition, we aim to ensure continuity and progression across key stages, recognising History as an enquiry with a focus on skills and deepening knowledge and understanding, encouraging pupils to be curious and inquisitive learners.
Our geography curriculum has been designed to inspire awe and wonder in pupils about the world that we live in, and the people in it. We believe that our geography curriculum is fundamental in broadening our pupils’ experiences of the world around them, as well as current environmental issues. Our geography curriculum equips pupils with the knowledge and
skills that they need to appreciate and understand a diversity of places, people, natural and human environments, as well as the Earth’s key physical and human processes. We aim to encourage pupils to ask questions and understand both their locality and the wider world.
As well as explicitly teaching these subjects, at St James, we promote the teaching of both history and geography, taught as a combined skill set as part of our ‘Local Area Study’. Our ‘Local Area Study’ provides pupils with both the knowledge and skill set needed to understand the history and geography of where they live. By exploring their locality and allowing pupils to put their learning into context, pupils are encouraged to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of their immediate surroundings.
At St James CofE Primary School, our History and Geography curriculum aims to: develop all children’s understanding of their place in the world by promoting their curiosity and fascination for the world around them.
Our history curriculum encourages our pupils to become active learners and develop their passion for history and a sense of who they are - locally, nationally and globally. Our aim is to develop well-rounded and successful historians, informed by the National Curriculum, and exposed to planned and differentiated lessons, taught with a clear history objective. Pupils will
develop their knowledge of chronology, allowing them to understand a sense of time and overall understanding of when events took place. In addition, we aim to ensure continuity and progression across key stages, recognising History as an enquiry with a focus on skills and deepening knowledge and understanding, encouraging pupils to be curious and inquisitive learners.
Our geography curriculum has been designed to inspire awe and wonder in pupils about the world that we live in, and the people in it. We believe that our geography curriculum is fundamental in broadening our pupils’ experiences of the world around them, as well as current environmental issues. Our geography curriculum equips pupils with the knowledge and
skills that they need to appreciate and understand a diversity of places, people, natural and human environments, as well as the Earth’s key physical and human processes. We aim to encourage pupils to ask questions and understand both their locality and the wider world.
As well as explicitly teaching these subjects, at St James, we promote the teaching of both history and geography, taught as a combined skill set as part of our ‘Local Area Study’. Our ‘Local Area Study’ provides pupils with both the knowledge and skill set needed to understand the history and geography of where they live. By exploring their locality and allowing pupils to put their learning into context, pupils are encouraged to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of their immediate surroundings.
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Implementation Our curriculum is underpinned by the National Curriculum, which has been adapted so that learning is put into meaningful contexts that will be built upon each other as children progress through school. In Key Stage One, foundation subjects are taught through a cross-curricular termly topic that combines History, Geography, Music, Design Technology and Art and Design. These topics are centre around an enquiry question and the focus is to immerse the children fully in the themes so that it captures their imaginations and brings the topic to life in a meaningful way. This progresses in Key Stage Two, in that History and Geography are combined into termly topics based on an enquiry question that incorporates overview and depth studies of National Curriculum subject content. Across KS1 and KS2, these topics are taught for an entire term to ensure that children are learning the appropriate skills, developing a deeper knowledge of the subject content and being challenged to apply this knowledge to different contexts. Also, this approach provides the opportunity for mastery of these foundation subjects, as well as the potential to achieve a greater depth understanding beyond that level. |
History & Geography Long Term Planning
KS1 & KS2 Topic Enquiry Questions
National Curriculum Coverage
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