At Great Binfields, we know that understanding the world we are living in is integral to the development of children as young learners and global citizens. It also gives children the essential opportunities to explore how views about periods of time and people have been constructed, all the while developing skills of empathy, communication and justification. We believe that the best way to explore this learning is by making real life links, connections to other areas of learning and engaging, active opportunities. We balance the important relationship between knowledge and skills; exploring and deepening ever-growing knowledge year on year as well as broadening the tools children have in order to navigate, interpret and communicate their learning. 

We deliver a curriculum which is accessible to all and that will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, remember more and understand more. Throughout their journey, the children will:

• Increase and develop their historical skills, concepts, knowledge and attitudes.
• Increase their understanding of the present in the context of the past.
• Develop and use their skills in enquiry, analysis, evaluation, and argument.
• Develop their interest in the past, igniting their curiosity and motivation to learn.
• Develop a sense of identity through learning about the past.

Class teachers will use a variety of teaching and learning styles in our history lessons and believe children learn best when:

• They have access to, and are able to handle artefacts.
• They go on visits to places of interest that enhance their learning.
• They have access to and are able to use secondary sources such as books, photographs and IT.
• Visitors talk about personal experiences of the past.
• They listen to and interact with stories from the past.
• They are provided with opportunities to work independently or collaboratively, to ask as well as answer historical questions.
• The develop skills to communicate their learning in a number of different ways.