History

History at Great Moor Junior School is led by Miss Macintyre.

In History at Great Moor Junior School, we aim to inspire pupils' curiosity to know more about the past by creating engaging lessons, listening to experts and visitors, and going on trips to experience history first-hand. Alongside building a robust foundation of substantive subject knowledge, we aim to equip children with the disciplinary knowledge required to think and act like excellent historians. Through this, we teach our pupils how to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop historical perspective and judgement.

Our children develop their substantive knowledge of local, British, European, and international history, as well as a secure understanding of chronology (the order in which people lived and events happened). Throughout the school, children will study:

Ancient Egypt

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

Ancient Greece and their achievements

The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

Britain’s Settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

The history of a non-European society (Maya Civilisation)

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Local History

We explicitly teach disciplinary concepts to help children understand the process of change and why some historical elements stay the same (continuity). We explore history from multiple perspectives, including political, social, and religious viewpoints. Pupils utilize a wide range of primary and secondary sources to investigate the past, building the disciplinary understanding that history can be interpreted, structured, and explained in different ways. Ultimately, we look at how substantive past events have directly influenced our lives and identities today.

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