“One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history.

~ Kofi Annan ~

Intent

We teach history at Northfield St Nicholas, using the CUSP curriculum, which is structured around the principles of advancing both substantive and disciplinary knowledge cumulatively. We ensure that substantive knowledge is built upon cumulatively by centering our curriculum around 6 key substantive concepts: community, knowledge, invasion, civilisation, power and democracy. These concepts are the golden thread that run through our history curriculum from EYFS – Year 6, and are revisited and explored through different lenses year upon year. The effect of this cumulative model supports opportunities for children to associate and connect with significant periods of time, people, places and events

Disciplinary knowledge is also threaded through our history curriculum, giving our pupils an understanding of how historians investigate the past and construct historical claims. Our pupils therefore develop the tools to work historically and construct their own knowledge of the past. They go on to use this knowledge to investigate change, continuity, similarity, difference and significance within and across the periods of history studied.

From EYFS – Year 6, the following strands of disciplinary knowledge are taught and built upon each year:

What do we teach?