History

UET Pathfinder, we believe that history is a vital part of a well-rounded education. It allows pupils to explore, question and to understand the past and how it has influenced our present. In our history lessons, our aim is to enrich, inspire and to ignite a curiosity into the past.

We encourage pupils to think critically, weigh evidence and develop perspective and judgement.

We endeavour to bring history alive through educational visits, guest speakers and regular opportunities to engage with historic artefacts.

UET Pathfinder, believe high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We aim to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Our teachers aim to equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement.

History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

During every history learning journey, our children should:

· Raise their own questions and engage in the decision-making process about the key questions that the class choose to address (regularly devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance)

· Learn and use the identified historical academic vocabulary in context when speaking and writing. Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms (see NC aims)

· Be taught explicitly the vocabulary identified for each topic .

· Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information

· Locate time periods on a history timeline

· Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

· Infer information from real life artefacts about what life was like in the past

· Infer from a range of secondary sources about what life was like in the past

· Examine the similarities and differences between life today and life in the past. (make connections, contrasts and identify trends over time)