History curriculum

Intent for TVED History

We aim for our history curriculum to provide children with an understanding of chronology and the knowledge to communicate the impact of significant historical events and individuals on our lives today, and the lives of others, using appropriate vocabulary. We want children to be curious to know more about the past and to have the skills required to explore their own interests. It is important for children to develop a sense of identity through learning about the past and we want them to know how history has shaped their own lives. For reference, take a look at the Department for Education history curriculum guidance here.

Outcomes

By the end of KS1 most children will be able to:

• speak and write about familiar and famous people and events from the recent and more distant past, using everyday terms concerned with the passing of time;  
• distinguish between aspects of their own everyday lives and the lives of people in the past;  
• identify some ways in which the past is represented;  
• find out about the past by asking and answering questions using a range of sources of information.

By the end of KS2 most children will be able to:

• describe the contribution made by people, events and developments in the recent and more distant history of Britain and other countries and make links across the periods of history studied;  
• give some reasons for, and results of, main events and changes and provide explanations about why people in the past acted as they did;  
• find out about the past by asking and answering questions using a range of sources of information;  
• give some explanations for the different ways the past is represented and interpreted;  
• record their knowledge and understanding about the past in a variety of ways using dates and historical terms.