History

Bearpark Primary School believes that History makes a valuable and distinctive contribution to pupils’ education. Learning about the past and the methods used to study sources and draw conclusions helps pupils understand and contribute to the world in which they live. The History Curriculum follows the National Curriculum introduced in September 2014.

The aim of history teaching here at Bearpark Primary School is to stimulate the children’s interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past.

We teach children a sense of chronology, and through this they develop a sense of identity and a cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. Thus they learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in modern multicultural Britain and, by considering how people lived in the past, they are better able to make their own life choices today.

In our school, history makes a significant contribution to citizenship education by teaching about how Britain developed as a democratic society. We teach children to understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today; we also teach them to investigate these past events and, by so doing, to develop the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem-solving.