History
History curriculum at Brookfield is in line with the National Curriculum. Our aim is to provide high quality education in order to install appreciation and understanding of the past and passion for the subject.
Our children gain coherent knowledge of the history of Britain and the wider world and how the past impacts the present. In our carefully structured and well delivered lessons, children learn the key concepts that make a good historian:
- Concept of chronology through placing periods, significant individuals and events on timelines
- Continuity and change
- Cause and consequence
- Compare and contrast different periods in time or historical figures
- Historical interpretation where children look at difference accounts of the same event and learn how to evaluate them
- Using evidence, primary and secondary sources
We provide a wide variety of activities in history lessons which support learning and understanding of all children. We invite visitors and carefully plan visits to museums to further support and develop children’s learning and understanding of the subject. Our children are confidently communicating their views, knowledge, skills and passion for the subject using oracy skills carefully embedded in all sequences of lessons.