Intent
At Horton we provide a broad and balanced curriculum of which history is a key part. We believe that a high-quality history curriculum inspires children to want to know more about the past and to think and act as historians. We aim to instil a love of History in all of our children and we provide a varied and interesting curriculum that intrigues our children and meets the needs of all backgrounds and abilities. By linking learning to a range of questions and using primary and secondary sources, children have opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s past as well as that of the wider world, and to be able to communicate historically. We want our children to develop an awareness of how the past has shaped and informed our present and will inform our future lives.
Implementation
The staff at our school are passionate and well-trained to deliver exciting and well-planned history lessons, that offer progression and depth against the National Curriculum guidelines. Our history curriculum has been created to explore big questions, linking the children’s knowledge and learning across the curriculum and across the key stages. Learning is enhanced through trips, visitors, use of historical sources and artefacts. We develop deep subject knowledge and historical key skills through the use of our carefully planned knowledge mats, key knowledge documents and progression overviews. Teaching and learning equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, consider evidence and develop perspective. Retrieval questions are used each lesson and throughout each unit to embed knowledge and assess next steps for individuals and groups of learners; these questions are based on the key knowledge identified in the corresponding documents. Each unit concludes with a carefully planned end point where children have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.
Impact
Our children speak highly of history at our school and talk confidently about their learning. Our history curriculum is well planned, carefully thought out and demonstrates progression through the National Curriculum for each Key Stage. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills and the use of accurate, subject-specific vocabulary which is identified on our knowledge mats and key knowledge documents. All staff use the key knowledge documents and progression overviews to assess children’s progress, identify gaps and plan next steps.
Intent
At Horton, we believe that a high-quality, broad and balanced geography curriculum inspires children to want to explore the physical and human elements of their local area and the wider world, so they can develop a real sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special. We aim to instil love of geography in all of our children and we work hard to provide a varied and interesting geography curriculum that intrigues our children and meets the needs of all backgrounds and abilities. By linking geography to a range of questions and curriculum areas, children have opportunities to develop their curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Children will investigate a range of places – both in Britain and abroad – to help develop their knowledge and understanding of the Earth’s physical and human processes.
Implementation
The staff at our school are passionate and well-trained to deliver exciting and well-planned geography lessons, that offer progression and depth against the National Curriculum guidelines. Our geography curriculum has been created to explore big questions, linking the children’s knowledge and learning across the curriculum and across the key stages. Learning is enhanced through trips, visitors, fieldwork, geographical enquiries and family learning projects. We develop deep subject knowledge and geographical key skills through the use of our knowledge mats and progression overviews. Teaching and learning equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically and communicate geographically. Retrieval questions are used each lesson and throughout each unit to embed knowledge and assess next steps for individuals and groups of learners; these questions are based on the key knowledge, which is identified in the corresponding documents. Each unit concludes with a carefully planned end point where children have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.
Impact
Our children speak highly of geography at our school and talk confidently about their learning. Evidence of work will show a range of questions explored, links across the curriculum and work pitched to support and challenge a range of abilities and starting points. All staff use the knowledge mats and progression overviews to assess children’s progress, identify gaps and plan next steps.
Nothing is left to chance in the curriculum. Our key knowledge documents show the facts we want our children to know and remember.
Click here to see our history and geography key knowledge documents.
Click here to see our history and geography progression documents (on tabs below).
Click here to see our history and geography policies.
Further information about how these subjects fit into our curriculum can be found on this page.
(Please click on the words in bold to follow the links.)