At Upottery Primary School, we follow Grammarsaurus History.

Through their History learning, children will study history units relating to the four themes:

• Society and Community
• Exploration and Invasion
• Power
• Conflict and Disaster

Children will study six ‘disciplinary concepts’ through these four themes, which will progress throughout the curriculum. The disciplinary concepts children will study are:

• Chronology
• Evidence and Interpretation
• Cause and Consequence
• Change and Continuity
• Similarity and Difference
• Historical Significance

By studying these four themes throughout the different units of work and progressing on the six disciplinary concepts, children will complete our History Curriculum aims which are:

• Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
• Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.

Please see the History Curriculum Overview for a lesson-by-lesson breakdown of the History Units taught at Upottery Primary School.