History
The History Curriculum
A high-quality history education helps pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It will inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:
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know and understand the history of the UK as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
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know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; the impact of human beings, both positive and negative
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gain and can use a rich vocabulary of subject specific terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
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understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity and difference, historical significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
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understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
In addition, we seek to generate curiosity around children's own interests and passions, inspiring them to love learning about the past. We aim to do this through two 'golden threads' they can investigate every year as they progress through the school: 'my people' and 'my place'. We consider what life would have been like for children and their families in the past, and what life would have been like in our local town of Ipswich and the environment which surrounds our school.
We also have a unique resource to inspire us and fire our imagination - right under our school! Find out more about Clifford Community School's very own air raid shelter here:
