--- title: "History" url: "https://stcuthbertshartlepool.bhcet.org.uk/curriculum/curriculum-and-subject-areas/history" school: "St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School" --- **Tel:** 01429 275040 **Email:** admin@stcuthbertshartlepool.bhcet.org.uk # History #### Subject Lead: Mr Tennant ### Curriculum Intent At St. Cuthbert’s, we believe **History is all around us; in our families with their unique backgrounds, cultures and traditions and in our local and wider communities.** **Our intent, when teaching history, is:** - **To stimulate pupil’s curiosity about the past,** - **To develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of** why people interpret the past in different ways. - To offer a high-quality history education that will help pupils develop a passion for learning - To gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. ### Implementation **As a school within Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust, we teach a scheme of work designed by a transition team of our primary school staff working with subject specialists from our secondary schools. This means our curriculum has been designed to ensure clear progression, in the acquisition of knowledge and for key skills, building on pupil’s prior learning.** We teach termly, discreet topics for all pupils from Year 1 to Year 6. **The curriculum units of work have** clearly identified minimum knowledge ‘end points,’ and have been sequenced to ensure that pupils know more and remember more as they move through primary school and transfer into KS3. **Our curriculum covers the National Curriculum and is underpinned by the building blocks of History (Threshold Concepts) which are emphasised and reinforced in the history curriculum across our schools from KS1 to KS5.** 1. **Developing chronological understanding** 2. **Communicating History** 3. **Investigating the Past** 4. **Thinking like a Historian** **Each unit of work has a clear rationale, key topic vocabulary, builds on pupil’s prior learning and defines the minimum knowledge and skills (end points) that pupils will learn. Assessment strands in topics give pupils the opportunity to demonstrate their learning and the knowledge companions that we call ‘Learn it! Link It! help pupils to remember the key elements of the topic. This helps pupil organise their learning into relevant areas and make links to other areas and subjects. Conceptual (Golden) threads of History are woven through our curriculum to ensure consistency, add focus and promote purposeful learning.** ### Impact **When pupils leave our school,** pupil will know more, remember more and understand more about History. **They will** have developed a secure knowledge and understanding of people, events and contexts from the historical periods covered and developed the ability to think and write like a historian. The outcomes in History books evidence a broad and balanced history curriculum and demonstrate the pupil’s acquisition of key knowledge and topic, ‘end points’. They will have the firm foundations in History and are well placed to make good progress at Key Stage 3. Curriculum Overview History and Geography 2024 2025 26 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/st-cuthbert-s-catholic-primary-school-2/files/documents/History_and_Geography_Overview_2024_2025.pdf) Upper KS2 Core Skills Progression 324 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/st-cuthbert-s-catholic-primary-school-2/files/documents/History-UKS2-sequential-components-and-objectives.pdf) Lower KS2 Core Skills Progression 342 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/st-cuthbert-s-catholic-primary-school-2/files/documents/History-LKS1-Sequential-components-and-core-knowledge.pdf) KS1 Core Skills Progression 281 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/st-cuthbert-s-catholic-primary-school-2/files/documents/History-KS1-sequential-components-core-knowledge.pdf) ![St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School](https://files.schudio.com/st-cuthbert-s-catholic-primary-school-2/images/logo/Bishop_Hogarth_and_Hexham_Logo_new_(1).png) ### St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Stratford Road Hartlepool TS25 5AJ 01429 275040 - [Online Payments](https://www.mychildatschool.com/MCAS/MCSParentLogin) - [Teams FAQs](https://bhcet.org.uk/information/teams-faqs/) - [Office 365](https://outlook.office365.com/carmel.org.uk) - [Remote Access](https://remote.carmel.org.uk/) - [Liturgy](https://liturgy.bhcet.org.uk/) ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/St-Cuthberts-RC-Primary-School-1655330931350213/) - [X](https://twitter.com/stcuthbertspess) ### Translation ### Office 365 [Sign in to Office 365](https://outlook.office.com/) © Copyright 2025–2026 St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://stcuthbertshartlepool.bhcet.org.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)