History

History Intent Statement

The history curriculum at Waulud Primary School aims to ensure that all pupils 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 think and act as historians.   

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. 

Our broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum encompasses the British Values 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 in ways which enable pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement

We want children to be fascinated by and love learning about history, and so aim to provide a range of memorable enrichment activities, such as fieldwork and educational visits, to ignite their enthusiasm and provide context for their learning.

Year 3 took part in a Stone Age day to discover what it was like to live over 2.5 million years ago:

The whole school took part in the project ‘Remembrance’. We decorated poppies as a symbol of remembrance and hung them on our school fences. Our display of respect was admired by the local community and a photo was even shared in the local newspaper:

Year 6 learnt how the Maya believed that chocolate was a gift from the God. It was so precious to them, they even used cacao beans instead of coins to pay for things. Year 6 really enjoyed finding out about the Mayan Civilisation during their chocolate workshop. The truffles that they made were delicious: