--- title: "History" url: "https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/history" school: "Buckingham Primary Academy" --- # History - Learning Showcase - History [Embedded content](https://plugins.flockler.com/embed/iframe/17f0326f40b09bcfa6fcdd9f924102c5/1849f2b1f220e80c799420170d710fe0) At Buckingham Primary Academy, we believe that **high-quality** history topics inspires pupils to show a curiosity in the past and understand how it has shaped the world they live in today. The design of our **3D curriculum** allows children to make horizontal and vertical **links** to a range of historical **enquiry challenges**. Children have opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s past, as well as that of the wider world, and to be able to communicate **historically**. Our curriculum aims to build pupils’ knowledge of local, British and global history progressively over time through studying time periods **chronologically**. They **achieve** success through engaging in **retrieval tasks** and rehearsing their **narrative of learning** each session to bring prior learning back to their working memory; allowing pupils to build on this, develop schema and make links. Pupils deepen their understanding through engaging in **second-level thinking tasks**. These look at: - **Cause and consequence** - **Similarities and differences** - **Historical significance** - **Reliability of artefacts and sources of information** - **Comparing events and their impact** We develop children with the following **essential characteristics** to help them become historians: - An excellent knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from a range of historical periods, including significant events in Britain’s past; - The ability to think **critically** about history and communicate ideas confidently to a range of audiences; - The ability to **support, evaluate and challenge** their own and others’ views using historical evidence from a range of sources; - The ability to think, reflect, **debate**, discuss and evaluate the past by formulating and refining questions and lines of enquiry; - A respect for **historical evidence** and the ability to make critical use of it to support their learning; - A desire to **persevere** with challenging activities, including opportunities to undertake high-quality research across a range of history topics; - A developing sense of curiosity about the past and how and why people **interpret** the past in different ways. Our curriculum also promotes knowledge of Britain’s democratic Parliamentary system linking to **British Values**. Pupils education is enhanced through **hands-on experiences** such as visits or visitors into school, supporting our personal development offer. --- ### History History Approach 85 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/buckingham-primary-academy-2/files/documents/History_Approach.docx) History Intent 2.19 MB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/buckingham-primary-academy-2/files/documents/History.docx) History Overview 191 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/buckingham-primary-academy-2/files/documents/Progression_of_skills_in_History(2).pdf) ### Curriculum - [Overview](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum) - Subjects - [English](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/english) - [Maths](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/maths) - [STEM](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/stem) - [Art](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/art) - [EYFS](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/eyfs) - [Computing](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/computing) - [Geography](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/geography) - [History](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/history) - [MFL](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/mfl) - [Music](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/music) - [RE](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/re) - [PE](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/pe) - [PSHE](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/pshe) - [Oracy](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/oracy) - Year Groups - [EYFS](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/eyfs) - [Year 1](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-1) - [Year 2](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-2) - [Year 3](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-3) - [Year 4](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-4) - [Year 5](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-5) - [Year 6](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/year-groups/year-6) - [Personal Development](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/academy-curriculum/personal-development) ![Buckingham Primary Academy](https://files.schudio.com/buckingham-primary-academy-2/images/logo/logo_(1).png) ### Buckingham Primary Academy Buckingham Street Hull HU8 8UG 01482 328661 © Copyright 2026 Buckingham Primary Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://buckinghamprimaryacademy.net/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)