Intent
At Senacre Wood Primary, we aim to deliver a history curriculum that is accessible to all and that will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, remember more and understand more.
Through an enquiry approach, our History Curriculum intends to:
- Support pupils with developing their understanding of the chronology of significant time periods and societies in Britain and the wider world.
- Develop pupils’ enjoyment and interest in history and encourage them to be curious and want to know more; this includes supporting pupils to devise and answer historically valid questions of their own.
- Support pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change and the diversity of societies. Then to use this to knowledge to discover connections between the History they learn and the wider community today.
- Help pupils to understand historical significance including how human achievements have influenced society and how historical events relate to modern day life.
- Provide opportunities for pupils to retrieve, and build on prior learning, so that they are able to recognise similarities and differences within and across historical time periods linked with substantive knowledge.
- Introduce pupils to historical vocabulary and provide them with opportunities to use and apply this.
- To understand the nature of evidence by emphasising the process of enquiry and by developing the range of skills required to interpret primary and secondary source materials. This includes distinguishing between historical facts and the interpretation of those facts.
For details of how we implement this within our school and how we measure the impact, please read our History policy.
Policies
VE Day 2025
On Thursday 8th May 2025, we celebrated 80 years of the end of World War 2.
Staff and children dressed in either 1940's clothes or wore red white and blue to celebrate.
Mrs Clarkson did some art-work with each class, based on the work of
Mrs Cripps taught us a song- by Dame Vera Lynn.
Mrs Wright did a whole school assembly to teach us all about what VE Day was and why it was important to remember it.
Year 2 completed a reading comprehension and learnt:
Aria- They had street parties
Jahangir- VE means Victory in Europe
Tommy- It is from 1945
Maisie- we sing songs
Sophia- it's over 75 years ago
Leja- The war finished in Europe but they carried on fighting in other places
Year 1 wrote an acrostic poem about England:
Year 5 completed some map work where they were given location clues to places in the UK where street parties were held.
Year R created Union Flags.
Year 3 read information about VE day and talked about what it meant.
Year 4 did some 1940s dancing and made some posters.
Year 6 had spent two terms learning about the war and were able to explain why VE day was so important.
Term 1
Oak Class will be learning all about themselves in their very first term at school. They will think about how they have changed since they were babies and what they can do now that they couldn't then.
Ash Class are learning about the monarchy. They have looked King Charles and his family tree and will go on to role play his coronation.
Beech Class are learning about air travel during their history enquiry. They will learn about the progress achieved by The Wright Brothers, the Montgolfier Brothers, Amelia Earhart and Lillian Bland.
Rowan Class are learning about what life was like in prehistoric times. They will be making a clay model of Stonehenge as part of their learning.
Willow Class are learning about changes during Anglo Saxon rule. They will be making helmets during this topic and it will then link to their next enquiry about the Vikings.
Maple Class are learning about life in Victorian times which will culminate in a trip to The Museum of Kent Life to take part in their Victorian Christmas experience.
Term 1 and 2 learning
In history, year 1 learned about the coronation of King Charles III. We compared it to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation over 70 years ago. We re-enacted the coronations, created recounts, made crowns and made news reports. Have a look at our Seesaw pages to see what we got up to.
Year 2 have been learning about the history of flight. We learned about Amelia Earhart and made paper aeroplanes. After learning about the Wright Brothers, we did a quiz. The answers were around the room, for us to choose the correct one. We listened to Mrs Luck and completed some paired reading to learn the facts.
Year 3 have learned all about early history. We started by looking at the Stone Age and then how life changed in the Iron Age. We have some fabulous new Stone Age artefacts to learn about.
Year 4 have been learning about Vikings. We created long ships using collage and watercolours.
Year 5 have been learning about the Victorians. We went to visit the museum of Kent life and had a Victorian experience day. Then we had a debate. We researched and analysed historical information in order to produce a balanced argument, before further developing our own perspectives in the form of a persuasive letter to Queen Victoria. We used these to make our debate more detailed, up-levelled our vocabulary and thought carefully about how to respond to individual points.
