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Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact
Our history curriculum has been mapped out so that children leave Lantern Academy having a secure understanding of the past and how important events, people and buildings, have shaped the world in which they live today.
Throughout lessons, pupils are taught there are opportunities to use a variety of media to learn about history. This allows children the chance to explore, ask questions and conduct research themselves and reach independent conclusions and judgements about the impact key historical events have influenced and affected the past and our world today.
We believe that it is important for children to understand their local history and the difference that key events and historical figures had on their immediate community. We then branch out to understand history across wider Britain and then move into world history.
At Lantern Academy we want children to appreciate history and the place it had on our world today and ensure this deep understanding feeds into their own personal choices, values, decisions and attitudes in the future.
Our history curriculum has been mapped out so that children leave Lantern Academy having a secure understanding of the past and how important events, people and buildings, have shaped the world in which they live today.
Throughout lessons, pupils are taught there are opportunities to use a variety of media to learn about history. This allows children the chance to explore, ask questions and conduct research themselves and reach independent conclusions and judgements about the impact key historical events have influenced and affected the past and our world today.
We believe that it is important for children to understand their local history and the difference that key events and historical figures had on their immediate community. We then branch out to understand history across wider Britain and then move into world history.
At Lantern Academy we want children to appreciate history and the place it had on our world today and ensure this deep understanding feeds into their own personal choices, values, decisions and attitudes in the future.
Our history curriculum has been written using the National Curriculum aims and objectives. Termly topics are written into sequences of learning, whereby each lesson children build upon their historical skills and knowledge. Our topics have been chosen to secure an understanding of the history of the children’s immediate locality as well as the wider world therefore creating a bespoke curriculum for our school.
To further embed the children’s understanding we carefully plan educational experiences, workshops and visitors so they can find out more about the topic they are learning. In addition, using real-life resources and artefacts brings history to life for the children. Our aim is through our weekly lessons and the carefully chosen resources and experiences it provides children with a secure understanding of what life was like in the past through a real hands-on approach to learning. We use Shropshire Library Service to support with providing inspiring texts and artefacts which accompany specific topics being taught across that half term.
A wide range of topics are studied throughout the time children are with us at Lantern Academy. We look at what time was like in specific eras such as the Stone Age as well as the impact that invasions had on our locality, country and the wider world. We also research key events such as The Great Fire of London as well as important people from both their locality and across the world. We take part in annual events such as Remembrance Day and our academy has also enjoyed taking part in historical events such as marking Queen Elizabeths Platinum Jubilee, her passing and the resulting coronation of King Charles.
Our history curriculum has been written using the National Curriculum aims and objectives. Termly topics are written into sequences of learning, whereby each lesson children build upon their historical skills and knowledge. Our topics have been chosen to secure an understanding of the history of the children’s immediate locality as well as the wider world therefore creating a bespoke curriculum for our school.
To further embed the children’s understanding we carefully plan educational experiences, workshops and visitors so they can find out more about the topic they are learning. In addition, using real-life resources and artefacts brings history to life for the children. Our aim is through our weekly lessons and the carefully chosen resources and experiences it provides children with a secure understanding of what life was like in the past through a real hands-on approach to learning. We use Shropshire Library Service to support with providing inspiring texts and artefacts which accompany specific topics being taught across that half term.
A wide range of topics are studied throughout the time children are with us at Lantern Academy. We look at what time was like in specific eras such as the Stone Age as well as the impact that invasions had on our locality, country and the wider world. We also research key events such as The Great Fire of London as well as important people from both their locality and across the world. We take part in annual events such as Remembrance Day and our academy has also enjoyed taking part in historical events such as marking Queen Elizabeths Platinum Jubilee, her passing and the resulting coronation of King Charles.
Our history curriculum is taught in a variety of ways. Children are given the opportunity to actively learn through drama, research and through experiences. Our humanities lead checks the quality of history lessons through classroom visits, which are both informal and formal. In addition, pupil voice demonstrates that children can talk confidently about the skills and knowledge they have learned.
At the start of each topic children are given the title and create a mind map plotting out both what they already know, want to learn and have learned. The mind map is added to as part of each history lesson and is used to support retrieval sessions where children are given the chance to talk about prior learning.
Where possible, we try to link an ambitious text, to our historical learning enabling children to make links through their learning in history to other learning across the curriculum.
Children can record their learning in different ways, meaning all children can access lessons and learn about history. Displays within classrooms and around the academy promote the importance of us all understanding history and the part it played in today’s world.
Teachers also assess the children’s understanding and plot this using the online assessment portal, Insight.
Our history curriculum is taught in a variety of ways. Children are given the opportunity to actively learn through drama, research and through experiences. Our humanities lead checks the quality of history lessons through classroom visits, which are both informal and formal. In addition, pupil voice demonstrates that children can talk confidently about the skills and knowledge they have learned.
At the start of each topic children are given the title and create a mind map plotting out both what they already know, want to learn and have learned. The mind map is added to as part of each history lesson and is used to support retrieval sessions where children are given the chance to talk about prior learning.
Where possible, we try to link an ambitious text, to our historical learning enabling children to make links through their learning in history to other learning across the curriculum.
Children can record their learning in different ways, meaning all children can access lessons and learn about history. Displays within classrooms and around the academy promote the importance of us all understanding history and the part it played in today’s world.
Teachers also assess the children’s understanding and plot this using the online assessment portal, Insight.
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