Whole School Planning

Introduction

The English National Curriculum identifies the history that we have to teach. Organising it into a format that makes sense to children and teachers creates challenges. The programme of study for history offers flexibility. Schools can construct a learning sequence most appropriate to them.

Whole school plans for history should:

• maximise children's historical learning relevant to their needs and development;
• enhance links to other areas of the curriculum;
• facilitate a comprehensive understanding of chronology;
• construct a main sequential narrative of British history;
• help children develop substantive, factual historical knowledge and concepts;
• develop key disciplinary skills, processes, protocols and concepts and processes, as well as generic, crosscurricular and inter-personal skills;
• reinforce textual [reading, writing] and multi-modal [visual literacy +digital, and mixed media] literacies;
• show how statutory requirements are being met.