History.
Subject Leader: Mrs J French
Vision / Intent
History is an exciting and dynamic subject that aims to bring the subject alive and foster in children a love for learning about the past. Plans are already in place to introduce annual external visits to reinforce class-based learning in a fun and interactive way. Future plans are to establish a History club where pupils can be involved in drama re-enactments of the past as well as giving pupils the opportunity to investigate aspects of History in which they take a personal interest.
Approach / Philosophy / Implementation:
Pupils receive a 1-hour lesson a week in each year and follow National Curriculum guidelines for history. Whilst the programmes of study are content-based and predominantly chronological, opportunities have been made for pupils to engage in independent learning and to partake in "fun" activities to bring the subject to life. These include re-enactment of battles, role-plays, hot-seating, competitions, card-sort activities and more.
Pupil involvement in lessons is very important and lessons have paired, group and whole-class discussions and debates built in to try to engage pupils and encourage them to take an active role in their own learning.
Department Members
- Mrs J French History Subject Leader
- Mrs M Bassett History, English, Maths and ICT teacher
- Mr L Griffin History and PE teacher
- Miss E Martin History, English and PE teacher
- Miss D Saunders History and Maths teacher
- Mrs E Warner History and English teacher
- Mr S Van Der Merwe Deputy Headteacher and History teacher
Topic Overviews 2020-21:
Year 5
- Autumn Term - The History of Cranfield
- Spring Term - The Ancient Greeks
- Summer Term - The Roman Empire
Year 6
- Autumn Term - The Anglo Saxons
- Spring Term - The Vikings
- Crime and Punishment, The Ancient Maya
Year 7
- Autumn Term - Britain c.1066-1450
- Spring Term - Britain c.1066-1450, Britain c.1450-1700
- Summer Term - Britain c.1459-1700
Year 8
- Autumn Term - Britain and Empire c.1700-1900
- Spring Term - Britain and Empire c.1700-1900
- Summer Term - The Slave Trade, Political Reform and Votes for Women