Freeman Community Primary School

It is our intent at Freeman Community Primary School to provide pupils with a high quality education in history to gain a coherent knowledge of the History of Britain and the wider world. It should inspire children’s curiosity to learn and know more about the past. We encourage children to ask perceptive questions, think critically, evaluate evidence and understand arguments to help them develop their own perspectives. At Freeman Community Primary School, our classroom teaching, where possible, is enhanced further by trips to local areas of historical interest and visits from historical experts. Through this children learn to develop a sense of their identity as well as understand the diversity of society and allows all children to experience, first hand, historical areas, periods and people of significant interest.

The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils: 

• know and understand the history of these islands 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
• 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; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and 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 
• 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