Doddinghurst Infant School

History

Intent (Vision)

 At Doddinghurst Infant School, our intent is to create independent historians who are curious about Britain’s past, the World's past and about their own past. 

Our teaching will allow children to understand how our country has been influenced by the wider world, understanding that major events have changed the way we live now.

Children will be taught about changes in living memory and beyond living memory. They will learn about the lives of significant people of the past and learn about events that have been significant nationally or globally.

The children will learn skills and methods to become historians, gaining knowledge through classroom learning, artifacts, educational visits and use of fieldwork. Primary and secondary resources, along with real experiences, will enable our children to fully embrace different parts of our history.

Implementation

At Doddinghurst Infants School we teach history through an enquiry based approach. Each term our children’s learning is launched with a ‘big enquiry question’ – a question where the answer is unknown at the beginning of the unit, but one that the children will be able to answer by the end of the term.

Our children are encouraged to celebrate and share history as it evolves, by engaging with our school time line, recording our events; giving them a first hand and relevant experience of the past and present. The children are taught to compare life between different periods of time using a range of artefacts.

History Progression Document

Year 1 Progression Document

Year 2 Progression Document