“History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.” 

Hajo Holborn

At Hatchlands, it is our intention to provide all our children with a high-quality history education that will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We aspire for our pupils to be curious learners and have a thirst for knowledge about events beyond and within living memory. We intend for our pupils to develop the skills required to explore their own interests; asking questions, thinking critically, weighing evidence, and developing their own judgments. We want our pupils to understand how people’s lives and societies have changed over time, and how this has had an impact on their own identities.

Children will learn about:

• changes of events within and beyond living memory that are significant nationally and globally

• lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.

• significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

• settlements and changes in Britain: Stone Age, Iron Age, Roman Empire, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Scots

• achievements of early civilisations and non-European societies that contrasts with British History

Children will learn how to:

• evaluate and interpret a range of primary and secondary resources, and form reasoned conclusions

• develop a strong sense of chronology through timelines, historical periods and have an overview of major events and figures.

• make connections, contrasts and find trends over time

• ask and answer questions using historical vocabulary