History

The history curriculum at Lily Lane stimulates the children’s interest and understanding about the lives of significant people who lived in the past and events that have happened both locally, nationally and globally.

Our vision is to engage, inspire and stimulate children’s curiosity through our content specific curriculum, in order for them to develop their disciplinary skills such as finding links between the cause and consequence, similarities and differences and ways to interpret historical sources. These skills allow our children to develop and become historians. We aim for a content specific, knowledge - rich history curriculum which encourages children’s curiosity about Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Our units are structures to help children develop their mental timeline and build on their prior chronology. We want our children to enjoy and love learning about history, not just through experiences in the classroom, but also with the use of primary and secondary sources. What they learn through history can hopefully influence their decisions about personal choices, attitudes and values in later life.

At Lily Lane our History is taught in blocks of approximately 6 weeks. Our history curriculum centers around our key substantive concepts called “golden threads”. These golden threads interweave the learning that we do in each subject and link across both History and Geography to embed learning.  Each golden thread is revisited throughout EYFS, KS1 and KS2. This allows children to build better connections between the subjects, which increases the likelihood of children remembering units taught throughout school.