History

At Tenacres we foster enthusiasm, curiosity and enquiry about the history of our local area, of Britain and of the wider world. We recognise that the skills our children develop in History lessons are important skills they will need for life; we are preparing children for living and working in the contemporary world and the world of the future

We aim to:

• Provide an engaging history curriculum which is broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated.
• Develop a sense of time by placing events, people and changes within a chronological framework.
• Develop the skills of enquiry and evaluation.
• Develop a knowledge of the characteristics of people living in particular periods, including attitudes and beliefs and their social, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity.
• Identify different ways in which the past is represented and make thoughtful use of a variety of sources.
• Develop the ability to describe and analyse reasons and results of events, situations and changes studied.
• Make links between different periods studied.
• Encourage children to interpret, explain and ask historical questions e.g. Why did this happen? How do we know this is true?
• Enrich the lives of our children through history focused trips, visitors and themed weeks.