"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."

Theodore Roosevelt

At St Michael and All Angels CE VA School,  the teaching of history inspires curiosity about the past and how it has shaped the world in which we live today. Our curriculum is planned to ensure historical knowledge is taught alongside the development of subject specific skills including; chronology, interpretations of evidence, changes within a time and across time periods and cause and consequence.

We want children to be able to ask significant questions about the past, analyse evidence, think critically, appreciate different perspectives and develop informed judgements. Children consider how the past influences the present, what past societies were like and what beliefs and cultures influenced people’s actions. As they do this, pupils develop a chronological framework for their knowledge of significant events and people.

In summary, our History curriculum helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups.