History Objectives KS1/2

We have chosen not to focus on the specific ‘topics’ that are suggested in the History curriculum but rather the skills and dispositions that ‘make great historians’. You will obviously be applying these across each topic as children study them. They fit much better with the transferable and overarching skills that people in ‘real’ roles actually use. There is one exception being the local study. Spark is heavily involved in developing localised resources across all subjects and the SDR200/River Tees resources should be of great use to people in the NE….and probably much further afield in more general ‘rivers’ or ‘industrial revolution/transport’ topics.

Objectives KS1/2
Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales
Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality