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.

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. 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.

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.