History

At St Peter’s, our History curriculum is designed to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. The curriculum is tailored to meet the needs of our children and explore the rich background, history, culture and diversity of the City we live in. 

We aim to give our pupils learning experiences that teach them to make meaningful links between their own lives and those of people from the past. The curriculum also includes several local historical links with London and the East End.

Many of our Literacy units also have an historical theme allowing pupils to broaden their understanding further outside of our history lessons.

In line with the national curriculum, we aim to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world

•  know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind 

• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’

• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses

• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed

• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.

If you have any questions about our History curriculum at St Peter's, please get in touch via admin@st-peters.towerhamlets.sch.uk - with the subject 'History Questions'.