(Year 3 archaeological dig)

History Lessons
at
​George Grenville Academy

INTENT

History and Geography drive the thematic curriculum at Grenville. We follow the National Curriculum but piece it together carefully to ensure knowledge builds systematically, enabling the children to know more and remember more. Throughout their school journey, children develop a range of historical vocabulary, build a knowledge of chronology and develop enquiry skills through exploring a variety of historical sources. They are also challenged to question decisions made in the past and identify what can be learnt. 

Local history is built into topics where possible, to enable children to develop understanding of their own cultural heritage and enable them to identify more closely with the themes that are explored. 

It is our intention, that children leave Grenville with a secure understanding of chronology and understand that history is taking place all the time and we need to open our eyes, take notice and learn lessons for the future.

(Year One exploring the history of flight.)

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IMPLEMENTATION

The school uses the Key Stage History website, where teachers can access high quality resources and research to support their teaching. History lessons are taught discreetly but form part of a wider topic or theme linking curriculum subjects together with teachers using bespoke Knowledge Organisers to plan from. A high quality book is chosen to read to the class alongside the theme. When history is not being taught, a class history box is used to revise previous history topics taught during their time at Grenville. This is to develop a 'stickability' for the knowledge taught. 

(Year Four investigating why Claudius invaded Britain)

History Curriculum Overview

Click on each unit in the table to open the knowledge organiser for that topic.

Year	Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term
Year 1	(The Nutcracker) ​Toys	(The Great Fire) ​The Great Fire of London (Up Up and Away) Flight	.
Year 2	​(Dungeons and Dragons) Kings, Queens and Castles	(Around the World in 80 Days)  ​Scott of the Antarctic	History Box - Revision
Year 3	(Tomb Raiders) ​Ancient Egypt	(Bean to Bar) The History of Chocolate	(The Golden Axe) ​Stone Age to Iron Age
Year 4	(Survivor) Romans​	(One Small Step) The Space Race	(Beowulf) Anglo Saxons
​Year 5	​(What the Dickens!) ​Victorians	​(Through My Eyes) Black History - ​Civil RIghts	Myths and Legends (Ancient Greece)
​Year 6	(War and Peace) WWI and WWII	History Bo ​x - Revision	(Macbeth) ​Crime and Punishment

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IMPACT

(Year Three discovering the process of mummification)

(Year Five exploring Greek mythology)

Progression Map
Click here to view our progression map for History