When planning your history curriculum it might help you to think of where you want pupils to be by the end of their time at your school. In doing this, you’ll need to bear two crucial dimensions in mind:
- What knowledge, concepts and historical understanding (substantive) knowledge do you want pupils to keep hold of long after they’ve forgotten some of the detail?
- How can you help pupils to think historically (disciplinary knowledge)?
You might like to consider these 5 areas to focus your thinking on:
Secure Chronological Understanding
How will you have developed a secure chronological understanding in your pupils. No just a bucket load of disconnected facts but a clear mental picture of the past?
Historical Enquiry and Source Analysis
How will you develop pupils ability to analyse and evaluate sources and interpretations? You will need to plan these meaningful encounter and repeat them at a higher
