At Walmley Infant School we believe that our children should develop a love of learning and show care and respect for each other within the context of a happy, secure and challenging learning environment.
This belief is reflected in Walmley Infant School’s values and philosophy towards the teaching and learning of History. We aim is provide a History curriculum that is stimulating, challenging and captivates children’s interests and curiosity; ready to lay the foundations for further learning and to inspire children’s interest in the past.
Children will develop historical skills, build and consolidate historical knowledge and vocabulary and make links in their learning by understanding key historical concepts.
Walmley Infant School follows the EYFS and National Curriculum regarding how and why History is taught in our school:
“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.”
(National Curriculum, 2014)