PeterchurchHistory
Our History Curriculum is designed to be fully inclusive, offering children engaging opportunities to learn about life in the past, embedding new knowledge and enabling children to make connections with the present day. Children are encouraged to ask questions and use a wide range of sources to build knowledge and understanding.
What children should have embedded EYFS:
- Children are able to talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
What children should have embedded KS1:
- Have an understanding of changes within their living memory.
- Understand events beyond their living memory:
- Understand the lives of significant individuals in the past:
- Be able to compare aspects of life in different periods
- Compare historical events, people and places in their own locality.
What children should have embedded KS2:
- Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history.
- Establish clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
- Understand connections, contrasts and trends over time
- Develop the appropriate use of historical terms.
- Be able to address and devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
- Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.
- Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
Geography
Our Geography curriculum is designed to develop children’s curiosity and fascination about the world and the people within it. Children 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. We are committed to providing children with opportunities to investigate and make enquiries about their local area Herefordshire so that they can develop of real sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special. We aim to develop children’s ability to apply geographical skills to enable them to confidently communicate their findings and geographical understanding.
What children should have embedded EYFS:
- Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments may vary from one to another
What children should have embedded KS1:
- Know and name the world’s even continents and five oceans, know and name the four countries and capitals of the UK and understanding where they live, including the characteristics of their locations.
- To identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and locate the hot and cold areas of the world.
- Undertake simple fieldwork, use atlases, globes and maps and be able to construct a simple map.
- Know simple compass directions: N S E W
What children should have embedded KS2:
- Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include the United Kingdom and Europe, North and South America. This will include the location and characteristics of a range of the world’s most significant human and physical features.
- Develop their use of geographical knowledge, understanding and skills to enhance their locational and place knowledge
- Use the eight points of a compass, four and six figure grid references, symbols and a key to build their knowledge of the UK and wider world
- Use Google Earth to locate a country or place of interest