• History is taught as a subject in its own right but we place a great emphasis on making links across other subject areas.  History is topic based and these topics frequently form the core of our cross-curricular approach to teaching, supporting and engaging our pupils with work in many other subjects, including English, Art, Music and RE.  
• Our curriculum is well-planned and structured and provides literacy - rich cross curricular opportunities which ensure progression and depth of learning.
• Teachers identify the key knowledge and skills for each unit and consideration has been given to progression across the topics throughout each year group across the school.
• We provide experiences out in the local area to explore local history such as the canal network at Saul, Woodchester Mansion and the Woodchester Roman mosaic.  We want our children to gain a rich and deep inderstanding of history and a love of learning about history, not just thorugh experiences in the classroom but also with the power of educational visits, visitors and real and replica artefacts.

There is a clear progression map of skills, knowledge and vocabulary to be learnt in each historical topic studied. This is split into strands:

• Historical knowledge
• History concepts
• Historical enquiry

• In EYFS, children follow the strand in the framework:  Understanidng the World - People and Communities. They talk about the past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members. They know that other children don't always enjoy the same things and are sensitve to this. They know about simalarities and differences between themsleves and others, among families, communities and traditions.
• Across Key Stage 1, pupils begin to develop an awareness of the past using historical vocabulary. They study people and events and begin to identify similarities and differences between different time periods. Children learn some of the ways in which we find out about the past and how events studied fit into the chronological framework.
• Within Key Stage 2, pupils build on prior knowledge and continue to develop chronologically secure knowledge of British, local and world history. Pupils learn to develop historically valid questions, identifying contrasts and trends over time, and make connections. They also learn how our knowledge of the past is constructed through a range of sources.

The impact and measure of this is to ensure that pupils are equipped with historical enquiry skills, knowledge and concepts, in addition to guiding their attitude to historical events which will enable them to be reflective learners ready for the curriculum at KS3. We want our pupils to have thoroughly adored learning about history. Through the breadth and depth that our curriculum offers, our pupils become passionate historians who are inspired by the subject, are curious to find out more about the past and have a love of history that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.

	Whole School Curriculum Map Humanities	[pdf 211KB]
	History skills and knowledge overview EYFS	[pdf 134KB]
	History skills and knowledge overview Year 1 and Year 2	[pdf 147KB]
	History knowledge and skills overview Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5	[pdf 212KB]
	History knowledge and skills overview Year 6	[pdf 113KB]