Vision
At Robert Shaw, we believe that is important for our children to develop a fascination for history and a desire to learn more about the lives of people, events and places of the past. Through the progression of our History curriculum, our children will gain understanding of how the past has shaped how we live today. Big questions are used to encourage critical thinking about the past especially in relating it to our lives today.
Throughout the Robert Shaw curriculum for History, our vision is to develop children’s understanding of the key historical concepts:
• Continuity and change:
Children study things that have changed or continued over time and the reasons for this.
• Cause and consequence:
Children analyse the causes and consequences of key events.
• Similarity and difference:
Children analyse the similarities and differences within and across time periods.
• Significance:
Children explore the importance of events, developments and people in terms of impact and legacy.
• Chronology:
Children develop an understanding of the sequence of events, including the use of BCE – Before Common Era and CE – Common Era.
• Use of sources:
Children develop their historical enquiry skills through examining a range resources such as pictures, photographs, written evidence and artefacts
