History
History Intent
At Gatcombe Park Primary school, we aim to develop children as historians who demonstrate these characteristics:
- A curiosity about the past and a developing understanding of how and why people interpret the past in different ways.
- An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods, including significant events in Britain’s past and significant people and events from their locality.
- The ability to think critically about history and communicate ideas confidently to a range of audiences.
- The ability to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using historical evidence from a range of sources.
- The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past by formulating and refining questions and lines of enquiry.
- A respect for a range of historical evidence and the ability to make critical use of it to support their explanations and judgements.
- A desire to embrace challenging activities, including opportunities to undertake high-quality research across a range of history topics.