At St Leonard’s Catholic Primary School, all pupils are given access to the past through the delivery of our creatively structured curriculum, which inspires their curiosity to know more about the past. By the time they leave primary school, children need to have knowledge about the history of Britain and the wider world and have a coherent understanding of historical concepts and historical enquiry. Children need to be able to use history to understand the world and society today and make links to British values.
We aim to provide our children with an exciting, relevant and challenging curriculum. Through outstanding teaching of the creative history curriculum, we strive to allow our children to develop a positive attitude towards becoming confident historians through the three domains: historical knowledge, historical concepts and historical enquiry.
The wide range of topics, based on the History National Curriculum, allows us to teach aspects of history from the Prehistoric Era, to events post 1066, as well as events leading us to the present day. By the end of KS2, children have a clear, concise and chronological understanding of history that has happened before them, and can confidently articulate the place history has in their own lives. Our curriculum is designed to give the children a seamless transition to the KS3 curriculum as the design of our primary curriculum was designed alongside our secondary colleagues within our Trust.