Statement of intent

History at Stanley St Andrew’s aims to inspire pupils’ curiosity about the past and to develop a coherent, chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. Through carefully sequenced teaching, pupils learn how people, events and developments are connected over time and how historians use evidence to construct accounts of the past.

The curriculum enables pupils to understand change and continuity, cause and consequence, similarity and difference, significance, historical evidence and interpretation. It also helps pupils understand the complexity and diversity of people’s lives, Britain’s place in the wider world, and the history of their own locality.