The history curriculum at Manor Farm Academy is split into four key areas: People and Places, Significant Events, Skills within History and Chronology.
Why do we teach History at Manor FArm Academy?
At Manor Farm Academy, we believe that History plays a vital role in helping our pupils to understand the World that they live in. Lincoln’s and Lincolnshire’s own rich history is a celebrated, motivational and an inspiring feature of our History curriculum. We draw from and make full use of the immediate and wider local area, enabling children to develop a deep understanding of the rich history of their locality, which is built systematically and progressively.
Our History curriculum is the driving force for the themes studied within each year group. These are informed by the national curriculum and are sensitive to children’s interests, as well as the context of the local area. The History curriculum at Manor Farm Academy is carefully planned and structured to ensure that current learning is linked to previous learning and that the school’s approaches are largely practical and experiential. Pupils make visits, work alongside visiting experts and have access to historical artefacts which bring learning to life. The corridor Time Line is an integral feature of chronological understanding for all pupils.
We strive to help our pupils to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, which helps to stimulate pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and to learn from it. We encourage pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh up evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. At Manor Farm Academy History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups. We compare, discuss and debate the historical evidence that we use. History helps pupils to understand the World around them and their own identity. It builds cultural capital.
We will deliver a curriculum that:
What does History look like at Manor Farm Academy?
The Subject Leader for History will lead and monitor, evaluate, review and celebrate good practice.
The History Curriculum will follow the National Curriculum expectations.
Each unit of learning in History will have:
In addition:
The History Subject Leader will seek appropriate and relevant training and the opportunity to keep developing their own subject knowledge, skills and understanding, so they can support curriculum development and their colleagues throughout the school.