History
At Rickley Park Primary School, we ensure that our teaching of history is accessible to all. This will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, remember more and understand more.
Our history curriculum is taught through our broad and inspiring Imaginative Learning Topics by teaching a range of creative and engaging activities. History will be taught to ensure children are immersed into a global approach to the subject. They will understand how global history has shaped the world to become how it is today.
This knowledge of the wider world will inspire them to apply their inquiry skills into finding out why events, people and changes impact the world in which they now live and what implications it may have for the future. E.g. What did the Romans history lessons will allow children to explore and understand how their local community has been developed as a result of past events and influences.
Pupils will be given opportunity to question how they play a part in their community and what they can do contribute in a positive way.   E.g. How did the success of Bletchley Park impact the community in and around it? Pupils will be given the opportunity to explore and understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change  and the diversity of societies.
Our history curriculum will allow children to identify the learner they are and want to be. It will celebrate and highlight significant historical individual’s failures and successes and these events were important into shaping the present day.
Children will be encouraged to make comparisons to their own personal development and use historical events as influential and inspirational references. Pupils will be encouraged to understand their own identity and the challenges of their time.