Earlsheaton Infant School

The history curriculum at Earlsheaton Infant School is delivered through timetabled lessons, trips and visits. When designing the history curriculum, the full national curriculum for history was taken into consideration, ensuring that pupils are exposed to all of the aims and more.

The history curriculum  will enable all pupils to be ready to develop a detailed knowledge of time, people, place and key events. Pupils will explore how people lived in the past, show respect for their values and attitudes, and begin to show understanding of how developments were connected. From the Early Year Foundation Stage until the end of their education journey, children will develop their disciplinary knowledge of how historians investigate, make sense of the past and construct historical accounts through meaningful examples and repeated encounters.

The history curriculum shows diversity across the subject, developing pupil’s historical knowledge of the world as well as British history and British values. Through learning about history, our pupils will build up respect and empathy, in order for them to become responsible members of the local, national and international community.

Our history curriculum is designed to encourage creativity, imagination, debate, discussion, independence and resilience in order to prepare pupils for their next steps. This includes fostering a love of learning about the past.