History

 Aims,values and purposes

Our aims,values and purposes at High Legh are that all pupils have a  broad and balanced understanding Of Britain's past and of the wider world! They will have rich first hand purposeful experiences and make meaningful links between their areas of knowledge and the major issues of our time at a local, national and international level. This year, we have been Roman invaders. We have journeyed miles across China and the Indus valley. We have even learnt how to light fires and build shelters as if we were in the Stone Age !

We enjoy exploring the past, and imagining what it might have been like to live a long time ago. We are excited about all our new history topics, and the way they link to our learning across the curriculum.

 The New History Curriculum

Purpose of study A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.What are our history topics in school? At Mayfield, we have a cross-curricular approach to teaching history. For instance, Year 3’s ‘Mummies Unwrapped’ is a topic focused on the history of Ancient Egypt. Other curriculum subjects are linked to history, including studying human and animal skeletons in Science by looking at mummies, reading and inventing our own Egyptian myths in English, and making our own papyrus in art.

Enrichment

We aim to provide children with fascinating and inspiring history learning in our topic lessons. We also offer opportunities for children to explore history beyond the classroom.

We often use the outdoor space as part of our topic work. For instance, Year 3 spent the day being Neolithic people in the autumn, Year 6 spent a morning re-enacting the battle of Hastings, and Year 4  building Viking ships. 

We often have trips or visitors to engage children with their learning about the past. This year these included a Year 1 visiting Manchester Airport to look at Concorde, A Year 3 day in Chester as Roman soldiers, and a Year 2 trip to West Kirby RNLI and Lighthouse.

History

 Aims,values and purposes

Our aims,values and purposes at High Legh are that all pupils have a  broad and balanced understanding Of Britain's past and of the wider world! They will have rich first hand purposeful experiences and make meaningful links between their areas of knowledge and the major issues of our time at a local, national and international level. This year, we have been Roman invaders. We have journeyed miles across China and the Indus valley. We have even learnt how to light fires and build shelters as if we were in the Stone Age !

We enjoy exploring the past, and imagining what it might have been like to live a long time ago. We are excited about all our new history topics, and the way they link to our learning across the curriculum.

 The New History Curriculum

Purpose of study A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.What are our history topics in school? At Mayfield, we have a cross-curricular approach to teaching history. For instance, Year 3’s ‘Mummies Unwrapped’ is a topic focused on the history of Ancient Egypt. Other curriculum subjects are linked to history, including studying human and animal skeletons in Science by looking at mummies, reading and inventing our own Egyptian myths in English, and making our own papyrus in art.

Enrichment

We aim to provide children with fascinating and inspiring history learning in our topic lessons. We also offer opportunities for children to explore history beyond the classroom.

We often use the outdoor space as part of our topic work. For instance, Year 3 spent the day being Neolithic people in the autumn, Year 6 spent a morning re-enacting the battle of Hastings, and Year 4  building Viking ships. 

We often have trips or visitors to engage children with their learning about the past. This year these included a Year 1 visiting Manchester Airport to look at Concorde, A Year 3 day in Chester as Roman soldiers, and a Year 2 trip to West Kirby RNLI and Lighthouse.

History

 Aims,values and purposes

Our aims,values and purposes at High Legh are that all pupils have a  broad and balanced understanding Of Britain's past and of the wider world! They will have rich first hand purposeful experiences and make meaningful links between their areas of knowledge and the major issues of our time at a local, national and international level. This year, we have been Roman invaders. We have journeyed miles across China and the Indus valley. We have even learnt how to light fires and build shelters as if we were in the Stone Age !

We enjoy exploring the past, and imagining what it might have been like to live a long time ago. We are excited about all our new history topics, and the way they link to our learning across the curriculum.

 The New History Curriculum

Purpose of study A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.What are our history topics in school? At Mayfield, we have a cross-curricular approach to teaching history. For instance, Year 3’s ‘Mummies Unwrapped’ is a topic focused on the history of Ancient Egypt. Other curriculum subjects are linked to history, including studying human and animal skeletons in Science by looking at mummies, reading and inventing our own Egyptian myths in English, and making our own papyrus in art.

Enrichment

We aim to provide children with fascinating and inspiring history learning in our topic lessons. We also offer opportunities for children to explore history beyond the classroom.

We often use the outdoor space as part of our topic work. For instance, Year 3 spent the day being Neolithic people in the autumn, Year 6 spent a morning re-enacting the battle of Hastings, and Year 4  building Viking ships. 

We often have trips or visitors to engage children with their learning about the past. This year these included a Year 1 visiting Manchester Airport to look at Concorde, A Year 3 day in Chester as Roman soldiers, and a Year 2 trip to West Kirby RNLI and Lighthouse.

History

 Aims,values and purposes

Our aims,values and purposes at High Legh are that all pupils have a  broad and balanced understanding Of Britain's past and of the wider world! They will have rich first hand purposeful experiences and make meaningful links between their areas of knowledge and the major issues of our time at a local, national and international level. This year, we have been Roman invaders. We have journeyed miles across China and the Indus valley. We have even learnt how to light fires and build shelters as if we were in the Stone Age !

We enjoy exploring the past, and imagining what it might have been like to live a long time ago. We are excited about all our new history topics, and the way they link to our learning across the curriculum.

 The New History Curriculum

Purpose of study A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.What are our history topics in school? At Mayfield, we have a cross-curricular approach to teaching history. For instance, Year 3’s ‘Mummies Unwrapped’ is a topic focused on the history of Ancient Egypt. Other curriculum subjects are linked to history, including studying human and animal skeletons in Science by looking at mummies, reading and inventing our own Egyptian myths in English, and making our own papyrus in art.

Enrichment

We aim to provide children with fascinating and inspiring history learning in our topic lessons. We also offer opportunities for children to explore history beyond the classroom.

We often use the outdoor space as part of our topic work. For instance, Year 3 spent the day being Neolithic people in the autumn, Year 6 spent a morning re-enacting the battle of Hastings, and Year 4  building Viking ships. 

We often have trips or visitors to engage children with their learning about the past. This year these included a Year 1 visiting Manchester Airport to look at Concorde, A Year 3 day in Chester as Roman soldiers, and a Year 2 trip to West Kirby RNLI and Lighthouse.