History
Knaresborough St John’s Primary school is passionate and enthusiastic about teaching an engaging history curriculum that encompasses exciting and meaningful knowledge, skills and concepts. We want the children in our school to understand more, remember more and know more. Our children will love and be enthused when learning history whilst gaining a cultural understanding both in the classroom and through educational visits/experiences. In doing this, the children have the opportunity to enhance their abilities to think critically, develop their own perspective and judgments and articulate their own evidence-based opinions.
Our curriculum is guided by the following academic fingerprint:
Children will:
- Have secure knowledge and understanding of the past, on a local, national and global scale.
- Have a coherent chronological understanding, be able to analyse sources and weigh evidence, and confidently enquire and ask perceptive questions about the past.
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Become confident in their understanding of key historical concepts (disciplinary knowledge), including continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference, sources and evidence, interpretation, and significance.
- Use their knowledge and understanding to make connections, create historically valid questions, and create structured accounts, including, but not limited to, written responses.
- Grow in their curiosity and enthusiasm about the past and use this to understand the diversity of different cultures and societies, as well as their own identities.