'The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future' - Theodore Roosevelt

Curriculum Intent

At Buckland, we aim to provide a knowledge-rich and progressive history curriculum which inspires children’s curiosity about the past and helps them understand how the past has shaped the world in which they live today.

Children develop secure knowledge of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, building an increasingly coherent understanding of chronology and making connections across periods and places. They explore important historical concepts including cause and consequence, change and continuity, similarity and difference, and significance.

Alongside developing historical knowledge, children are taught to think and work as historians. They learn to ask historical questions, examine and interpret a range of primary and secondary sources, consider the reliability and usefulness of evidence and understand that the past can be interpreted in different ways.

Through history, children encounter the experiences and perspectives of people from different periods, societies and cultures. This is particularly important in our school context, where the majority of pupils are White British, and supports children in developing a broader understanding of the diversity of human experience.

Our local area, educational visits, visitors, artefacts and other first-hand experiences are used to enrich children’s historical understanding and help bring the past to life. This complements our work as a Rights Respecting School, providing opportunities for children to consider how rights, society and people’s lives have changed over time.

'A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots' - Marcus Garvey