Humanities

At Lily Lane our History and Geography are taught in blocks of approximately 6 weeks, alternating per half term. Both the history and geography curriculums centre around our key 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.

Our Golden threads are:

By choosing to present our curriculum in this manner we believe that this allows children to embed their learning and deepen their understanding of the National Curriculum. Using bridging back retrieval practises in every lesson builds cognitive skills by recalling information taught in previous units and previous years. Lily Lane uses ‘sticky knowledge’ to make it clear what knowledge should be retained in each lesson and what we expect 100% of children to learn. All sticky knowledge and subject specific vocabulary is clearly displayed in knowledge organisers. By using these methods we believe we are developing well rounded children who can ‘learn and succeed together’.

History Intent

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 and become historians. We aim for a rich history curriculum which encourages children’s curiosity about Britain’s past and that of the wider world. 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.

Geography Intent

The geography curriculum at Lily Lane stimulates the children’s interest and understanding about the world around them.

In order the develop the skills necessary to become geographers, such as substantive and disciplinary skills, our well-developed curriculum stimulates children’s curiosity and inspiration. We aim for a rich geography curriculum, following the National Curriculum, which encourages children’s interest and fascination about where they live and what makes up the wider world. We want our children to enjoy and love learning about geography not just through experiences in the classroom, but also with the use of education visits to enrich their learning.

Humanities Curriculum Overview