History

Summer-

WWW:

• All children could tell me that lessons started with retrieval and how this helped them to remember what they had previously learned.
• All children have had access to artefacts in some form over the year and were positive about using these.
• All children have either enjoyed a trip or a visitor to do with history over the year.
• The children said that most of their lessons were more hands on and they loved these activities for learning.
• Most classes said their teachers were engaged in the lessons and showed enjoyment when teaching history.
• Some classes could tell me that they were reading books in story time or Talk Through Stories which supported their history and made it more exciting.

EBI:

• All children were familiar with the symbols used for skills and could explain what this meant in history. e.g. someone in UKS2 thought that we observed over time rather than carrying out historical enquiry.
• Most children agreed that they would benefit from less writing and more exploring.

 

Spring-

Autumn 2-

WWW

• Using videos like Horrible Histories to help us to visualise what we’re learning about (Y4)
• We visited the memorial (Y1)
• Finding out facts and using them in my writing (Y5)
• Drawing and sharing in different ways (Y2)
• Mini games, like spot the difference, to help us to visualise (Y6)
• My teacher explained it really well (Y5)
• When it gets really exciting, my teacher is very expressive and shows us how things happened (Y4)
• We got to look at replicas of tools from the past (Y3)

EBI

• Use more videos to help us to visualise more (all)
• Use more technology (Y2)
• Use more drawing rather than pictures being given (Y5)
• More time on visits and with visitors (all)
• More role play to get into character (Y5)

 

Autumn 1-

The history Curriculum Champions shared that they enjoy history lessons at school. The children shared what they have been learning and how they have been using the different historical skills in their lessons. Across school, children feel that history is good because:

• it's interesting and exciting learning about the past
• we can look at old pictures or things from the past that help us to imagine what life was like
• we use Horrible Histories to help us to understand our learning. It's funny but it also helps us to remember
• our teachers are excited about history lessons and they tell us interesting facts
• we go on trips or have visitors in school to help us to learn

The history Curriculum Champions shared that they think history lessons would be even better if:

• we could have more artefacts in school to look at
• we could do more group work in our lessons
• we could use technology more in our lessons to explore the past