History teaching at Glebe
History Leader
- Mr Pavely
The INTENT of History at Glebe
At Glebe Primary School we believe an ambitious core values based history education along with the development of our pupils’ positive mindsets, will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. The enquiry based topics inspire our pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and develops their culture capital. Teaching equips our pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift through arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
The History curriculum has been made for Glebe by Glebe. It has been organised and researched from working closely with Shoreham Academy as well as experts from the KeyStageHistory platform. In the classroom you will see big questions being answered, real life connections being made, shared vocabulary used, inclusivity for all pupils and a real thirst for learning. Review and progress (RAP) quiz sessions are used to enhance the pupil’s knowledge from short term to long term as well as a range of valued experiences.
How we teach history at Glebe
Click here for the National Curriculum - programmes of study for History
history layer 2 subject overview.pdf
Glebe offers pupils an array of enrichment activities to provide exciting, stimulating experiences that enhance our curriculum and children's individual learning. See below.
Spotlight within History - Year 3
CAVE PAINTING: To kick start our Stone Age topic the children in Year 3 went on an exicting cave painting hunt around the school. They found lots of different types of images that ancient humans painted. These included horses, hands and even woolly mammoths! The children then used this inspiration to create their very own cave paintings at the start of our topic! "The children were very excited a hunt around the school for the cave art and loved creating their own!" Mrs McHugh, Year 3 teacher.Spotlight within History - Year 3
EGYPTOLOGIST VISIT: As part of our learning on Ancient Egypt, the children very lucky to have been visited by an Egyptology expert! They came and spoke to us about their incredible work as an Egyptologist and explored the discovery of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. This inspired the children with their own letters in the same style as Howard Carter's amazing discovery.
Spotlight within History - Year 2
Year 2 had a fantastic afternoon in the company of the Rainbow Theatre! The children all came to school dressed in period costumes, and all worked together with the actors to produce a re-telling of the events from 1665-1666. With the aid of costumes and props the children relived the events of the Black Death; the great plague that ravaged London. Fast forward to one year later and Thomas Fariner is working hard in his bakery in Pudding Lane. One fateful night a fire starts and soon spreads across the city. The children acted out the events of the next few days as panic spread, and the flames took hold. It was brilliant to see the events of the past brought to life in front of their very eyes, and it was a great way to cement their learning of this fascinating topic. We have seen some great diary writing as a result, and the children were thrilled to meet King Charles II and Samuel Pepys! Thank you Rainbow Theatre for a fantastic experience!
