Humanities

Vision

Our humanities curriculum is enquiry based, knowledge-rich and progressively sequenced so that learners have the opportunity to develop a life-long passion for geography and history. Through familiar and unfamiliar experiences, children will develop an understanding of ‘humankind’ and their place within it.

Rationale

The choices we have made within our humanities curriculum will allow children to develop an overarching view of the world and an understanding of the fundamental concepts of place and time, including their place within this.

Geography: The focus of our geography curriculum is our immediate locality. Children will learn about their locality and their country, their place within it and their impact on it. The curriculum is sequenced to work from the child out: gradually, children will learn about places that are further away, in increasing detail and include increasingly abstract concepts. Each unit within the coverage uses some form of map work with some units being exclusively dedicated to this skill.

History: Our history curriculum supports children to develop a secure sense of chronology so that children understand the overarching narrative of British history as well as key chapters from the history of the wider world. Through learning about the past, we enable children to make sense of the now and influence the future. Developing an understanding of human life across time, in all its complexities, will allow children to make reasoned judgements, filter arguments and make considered choices based on ‘lessons learned’.

Programme

We follow the National Curriculum and have sequenced the subject content meticulously to best suit the needs of our children and to compliment effective learning strategies. Alongside this, we have developed a progression of skills to support teaching and learning