Intent

At Anchorsholme Academy, we want all pupils to be passionate about history and to be inspired to have a life-long curiosity and fascination with historical concepts. We also want to give our children the skills, knowledge and experiences they need to be independent and critical thinkers, so that they are prepared and well equipped to study history beyond the primary curriculum by the time they leave Year 6.

High-quality history education is provided to inspire children and develop their fascination about the historical world. We aim to develop all children into confident learners who are curious around about the world and its people; who work collaboratively to find answers and can communicate their findings in a variety of ways to enable them to think, question and understand history as a historian would.

We believe that it is important that children should enjoy a range of experiences and have access to various ways of learning. In class, the children learn through a wide range of creative experiences as well as making visits to local areas and areas further afield.

Cultural Capital

• Children are exposed to a wide range of experiences through trips and opportunities provided within every topic for children to become fully immersed in History topic.
•  Visitors and experts are used when possible to broaden knowledge and provide opportunities to ask questions.
• Coronation day – celebration of the decades of Modern Britain
• Remembrance Day
• Visits and visitors to school to deepen the children’s understanding of each unit.

Lesson Expectations

• Each lesson to be based around an Anchor Question and begin with a Revisit and Review activity.
• Key concept written before Anchor Question each lesson (e.g. Place: Who are our European Neighbours?)
• All children present in lessons 1 and 6.
• Knowledge organisers to be used alongside each topic as a working document stuck onto the left-hand page of curriculum books and as assessment and review opportunity.

Assessment

• Children to complete one summative assessment piece in lesson 6 of each unit.
• All lessons to begin with a question to be answered throughout/at the end of the lesson.
• Revisit and review activities to link to previous unit learning to help recall and extend existing knowledge including previous year groups.
• Summative assessment judgements to be made on Arbor at the end of each term.

SEND

• Children to complete one summative assessment piece in lesson 6 of each unit.
• All lessons to begin with a question to be answered throughout/at the end of the lesson.
• Revisit and review activities to link to previous unit learning to help recall and extend existing knowledge including previous year groups.
• Summative assessment judgements to be made on Arbor at the end of each term.

More Able

• Children are extended through a range of questioning.
• Children can work collaboratively to deepen understanding.
• Children to be assessed against the Trust Milestones at a greater depth level, broadening their understanding of the unit of study.

EYFS

• Key milestones for History are taught specifically through Understanding the World (Past and Present).