History

At Bollin, we recognise the importance in helping children gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We strive to inspire children’s curiosity to know more about the past.

History teaching equips children to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement.

History helps our children to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

We aim for our children to:

• Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day.
• Know how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.
• Know and understand a local perspective to the history of Britain.
• Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world.
• Understand key historical concepts.
• Develop 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.
• Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts: understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.