The aim of history teaching here at Thurnby Mead Primary Academy is to stimulate the children’s interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past. We teach children a sense of chronology and through this, they develop a sense of identity, and develop their cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. Thus, they learn to value and respect their own and other people’s cultures in modern multi-cultural Britain and, by considering how people lived in the past, they are better able to make their own life choices today. In our school, history makes a significant contribution to citizenship education by teaching them about how Britain developed as a democratic society.
We teach children to understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today. We have developed our history curriculum to incorporate links to our local area as well to enable the children to recognise and understand the world around them and embed their learning of History.
Subject Leader/s
Mrs W Follows
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Year 1 | Remembrance
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The Story of Thurncourt Shops
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Nurturing Nurses
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Year 2 | The Great Fire of London
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Who was Lady Jane Grey?
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Who was Thomas Cook and why was he important?
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Year 3 | Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
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Roman Britain
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Beliefs in Ancient Egypt
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Year 4 | Invaders & Settlers
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Early Islamic Civilisation
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What did the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings leave behind?
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Year 5 | The Blitz – all we need to know about WW2
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The Ancient Greeks
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Year 6 | Georgians
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King Richard Third & The Tudors
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EYFS framework is structured very differently to the national curriculum as it is organised across seven areas of learning rather than subject areas.
DSP follows a broad and differentiated curriculum which includes a selection of the topics from different year groups.