The teaching of history at Grendon Underwood School follows the statutory guidance of the National Curriculum. Details of our curriculum can be found below.

At Grendon, we aim to bring history to life by exciting school trips, museum loan boxes (containing artefacts the children can explore) and themed days.

Alongside their history knowledge we are committed to developing children’s vocabulary, through reading and writing. There are many cross-curricular opportunities for children to celebrate their historical knowledge and showcase their work.

We believe that children should experience history through the eyes of all significant individuals, embracing our British Value of diversity and equality.  We encourage the children to explore the past rather than being told about it, we want to grow the historians of the future!

“We are not makers of history; we are made by history”  Martin Luther King Jr

A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

History fires pupils’ curiosity about the past in Britain and the wider world. Pupils consider how the past influences the present, what past societies were like and what beliefs and cultures influenced people’s actions. As they do this, pupils develop a chronological framework for their knowledge of significant events and people. In history, pupils find evidence, weigh it up and reach their own conclusions. To do this they are encouraged to research, sift through evidence, and engage in active discussion - skills that will prepare them for adult life.

Primary History Curriculum:

https://www.warrinermultiacademytrust.co.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=662&type=pdf

History Curriculum Statement:

https://www.warrinermultiacademytrust.co.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=421&type=pdf