History
At Stratford St Mary Primary School we believe through high-quality planning, teaching and assessing, the History curriculum will provide a range of opportunities which will:
- Inspire our pupils’ curiousity so they gain a coherent and chronological knowledge and understanding of Britain’s, and the wider world’s past; from the earliest times to the present day including using connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history and between short and long time-scales.
- Inspire our pupils’ curiosity so they gain knowledge and understanding of how people’s lives have shaped the nation.
- Inspire our pupils’ curiosity so they gain knowledge and understanding of how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.
- Ensure our pupils know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world; the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies and achievements.
- Ensure our pupils gain an understanding of abstract historical terms (empire, civilisation, parliament and peasantry) and understand the methods of historical enquiry; how evidence is used to make historical claims and understand how and why contrasting arguments of the past have been constructed.
- Equip our pupils’ with the skills and understanding to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and develop perspective and judgement.
- Help our pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and the relationships between different groups, their own identity and the challenges of their time.
History Resources
History in the News
Immersion Afternoon – The Great Fire of London
The Year One children found out about their new topic - The Great Fire of London. The children looked at pictures and used their senses to describe what they could see in the pictures. The children saw - a big fire, cloud of smoke, path, lots of smoke, thin doorways,...
Make The Classroom Disappear – Ancient Egypt
On Wednesday 10th September, the Owls took part in a workshop on Ancient Egypt, run by Make The Classroom Disappear. They experienced writing the Egyptian number system on wax tablets and making mud bricks. We learnt about the layout of an Ancient Egyptian house too....
Stone Age Art
This term in art we are looking at Prehistoric Art, focusing on the Stone Age! We are linking this in through forest school where we will eventually be creating our own cave art paintings using natural resources from the forest area! [gallery...
The Swans Get Ready for their new WW2 Topic!
As part of our Immersion Day, we made WW2 airplanes - German and British. The children worked really hard to create these from a plastic bottle and modroc - it wasn't as easy as it may look!
Ancient Egypt Immersion Day
The Owls started the new school year with a whole day of activities about Ancient Egypt, which is our first History topic. The children took part in an archaeological dig and made pyramids out of spaghetti and marshmallows. We also took part in an online drawing...
Batik prints
For our Art last half term, Owls made batik prints using colours and patterns inspired by the ancient Maya.