Vision Statement
At Hethersett Woodside Primary School we want History to fire children’s curiosity about the past in Britain and the wider world and help them to understand the diversity of human experience. History is important as it provides children with the opportunities to empathise with others, argue a point of view and reach their own conclusions – essential skills that are prized in adult life. Therefore, we aim for a high-quality history curriculum that has been carefully designed and sequenced to equip our children as young historians with a secure, coherent knowledge of British, local and world history.
We follow the CUSP (Curriculum Unity Schools Partnership) history curriculum, which provides structured and relevant enquiries that sets pupils on historical quests. These strategically incorporate a range of modules that revisit, elaborate and sophisticate our children’s schema of key concepts, events, people and places. The structure is built around the principles of advancing cumulative knowledge, chronology, change through cause and consequence, as well as making connections within and throughout periods of time studied.
CUSP History is planned so that the retention of knowledge is much more than just ‘in the moment knowledge’. As well as substantive and disciplinary knowledge, every history lesson also includes the explicit teaching of vocabulary. CUSP History fulfils and goes well beyond the expectations of the National Curriculum as we believe there is no ceiling to what pupils can learn if the architecture and practice is founded in evidence-led principles. To further enhance this, at Woodside we love bringing history to life, taking our children on visits out of school and welcoming visitors into school.
Children from Woodside emerge as working historians equipped with the vocabulary and skills to continue their learning about people, places, events and changes in society.
