At Cubert School, we aim to develop pupils who have a secure understanding of the past and a genuine curiosity about how history has shaped the world they live in today.

Our history curriculum is carefully sequenced in line with the National Curriculum, ensuring that pupils build knowledge progressively over time. Content has been deliberately chosen to develop a coherent understanding of Britain’s past and the wider world, enabling pupils to make connections across different periods, places and themes.

We provide a rich and balanced curriculum that equips children with the disciplinary skills of a historian. Pupils learn how to ask meaningful questions, analyse a range of historical sources and consider their reliability, supporting them to think critically and form their own informed viewpoints.

A strong focus is placed on developing chronological understanding, key historical concepts (such as cause and consequence, change and continuity) and subject-specific vocabulary. This ensures pupils can confidently explain their thinking and deepen their understanding.

Through our history curriculum, pupils begin to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the diversity of societies and how historical events have shaped identity, both in the past and today. We aim to foster a lifelong interest in history and a curiosity about the wider world.

Our history curriculum enables all pupils to:

• Develop a secure chronological understanding, from their own lives to historical periods, helping them to see how events connect over time
• Build substantive knowledge of Britain’s history and the wider world
• Understand and apply key disciplinary concepts, including cause and consequence, similarity and difference, and change and continuity
• Learn how to use and evaluate evidence, understanding how interpretations of the past are formed
• Develop confidence in using subject-specific vocabulary to explain their ideas clearly
• Show curiosity about different cultures, societies and time periods
• Gain an understanding of the complexity of people’s lives and the diversity of societies, and how these shape their own identity