History
At the Wye Forest Federation, we hold our vision, Love, Learn, Live close to our hearts and we aim to create a history curriculum that inspires pupils to be curious and creative thinkers who develop a complex knowledge of local and national history and the history of the wider world. We develop learners’ historical skills, understanding of concepts and knowledge. All these disciplines are carefully blended in planning and teaching, recognising that they are equally important to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum.
We want our children to love History and through our curriculum, we strive to inspire pupils’ curiosity about the past. Our curriculum provides children with opportunities to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. To ensure that pupils develop a secure knowledge that they can build on, our history curriculum is organised into a progression model that outlines the skills to be taught in a sequentially coherent way. Chronological awareness; Disciplinary concepts and Historical enquiry are all mapped out to ensure that pupils build on secure prior knowledge.
We believe that teaching History in this way is important in broadening children's horizons, challenging preconceived ideas, developing a sense of respect and compassion towards other cultures, building resilience and courage and developing life skills in order to prepare them for secondary school and beyond.
For further information about our History curriculum, please see the below documents.