Mrs Whatmough

History Team

Miss Seale

History Team

The aim of History teaching here at St. Herbert’s School is to stimulate the children’s interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past. We teach children a sense of chronology, and through this they develop a sense of identity, and a cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. Thus they learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in modern multicultural Britain and, by considering how people lived in the past, they are better able to make their own life choices today. In our school, history makes a significant contribution to citizenship education by teaching about how Britain developed as a democratic society. We teach children to understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today; we also teach them to investigate these past events and, by so doing, to develop the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem-solving.

The objectives of teaching history in our school are:

• to foster in children an interest in the past, and to develop an understanding that enables them to enjoy all that history has to offer;

• to enable children to know about significant events in British history, and to appreciate how things have changed over time;

• to develop a sense of chronology;

• to understand how Britain is part of a wider European culture, and to study

  some aspects of European history;

• to have some knowledge and understanding of historical development in the

  wider world;

• to help children understand society and their place within it, so that they

  develop a sense of their cultural heritage;

• to develop in children the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis, evaluation

  and presentation.

Key Stage 1 History

Key Stage 2 History