Understanding the story of the past.

At Haddon, we believe that every child is a historian. We have designed a history curriculum that provides all children with plentiful opportunities to embark on their own journey of understanding the world we live in. Our curriculum strives to develop children's confidence and analytical skills to empower them to understand the story of the past.

Romans v Celts at Castleton!

Further to this, our WEAVE curriculum principles underpin the foundations of our history curriculum with the children experiencing the wider world through the planned content, authentic experiences and connections with historical places of significance and historical workshops.

Children at Creswell Crags being archaeologists as part of their history enquiry hook. 

Career aspirations are discussed with children, enabling them to see the value of the subject. The history curriculum is vocabulary-rich, with topic-specific words supporting them to speak and act like historians. The children are exposed to different historical periods throughout their journey at Haddon.

Local history at Gedling Country Park: a former colliery, linking to the Industrial Revolution.

The site also serves as a reactivate for the children, visiting the Holocaust Memorial Garden; the

flame sculpture represents eternity through the metaphor of the eternal flame.

Aims of the History Curriculum

Our history curriculum aims for pupils to:

• inspire children to have a passion for history
• develop historical knowledge and chronological understanding of the world
• develop a conceptual understanding by studying and recognising key themes throughout history
• aspire to leave Haddon with keen analytical skills and a desire to continue learning about history.

History Key Knowledge Progression Document 

Across our school, we have history enquiries which run during our autumn term; however, we make connections through other subjects throughout the year, allowing children to make connections with their new learning and reactivating previous knowledge. This ensures that there is a full coverage of the National Curriculum, with progressive content being taught (some more ambitious than the National Curriculum) from Nursery to Year 6. This has been planned out using the Flying High Partnership’s Key Knowledge Progression Documentation to formulate the enquiries for each year.