History

History is also taught through the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) scheme which enables children to approach learning by developing the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to confidently interpret periods and events from the past and the lessons that can be drawn from them.

Chlidren learn knowledge of Britain’s past (Stone Age – beyond 1066) and ancient civilisations as well as exploring significant events, people, and places in their own locality and beyond. 

History lessons provide valuable transferable knowledge and skills to other areas of the curriculum and promote the pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.  The curriculum is designed and taught in a progressive manner, allowing pupils to build on and broaden their prior learning throughout their time at primary school and into the next stage of their education.

We teach the full National Curriculum for History and Geography.

We use the themes from the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) which provides themes for every year group from Year 1 – Year 6.

The IPC has been developed to provide support to teachers so that four main aims can be achieved.  They are:

To help children learn the subject knowledge, skills and understandings they need to become aware of the world around them

To help children develop the personal skills they need to take an active part in the world throughout their lives

To help children develop an international mindset alongside their awareness of their own nationality

To do each of these in ways which take into account up-to-date research into how children learn and how they can be encouraged to be life-long learners

Our curriculum is bespoke to our content:

In local history we study the history of the school and local areas and in geography fieldwork we think about features we walk past on the way to school, how the buildings have changed in Selhurst,  how the community has changed, the weather and climate of the local area and compare features with international locations.