Coopers Edge School

To increase pupils’ prospects by:

Enabling them to effectively think like an Historian and gain age appropriate knowledge, skills and understanding of History.

1. Individual growth and aspiration

• To have an understanding of their heritage.
• To understand how events in the world have shaped their heritage.

2. Individual cultural identity, global citizenship and equality of all

• Know stories about a range of people that have lived in a variety of cultures in the past.
• Know stories about a range of people associated with Gloucester in the past.
• Know about a range of events that have happened locally, in Britain and in the wider world in the past.
• Be able to identify differences between their own lives and those of people who have lived in the past.
• Know about the main similarities and differences between past societies they have studied.
• Know about the ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of people in the past.

3. Media skills and communication

• To be able to reflect upon and analyse sources using a critical lens and understand the influences of the period.
• To understand how history has influenced our world today and recognise patterns in happenings.

4. Participatory citizenship and entrepreneurship

• To understand that the history of one country may have impacted upon and shaped the viewpoints of existing cultures.

5. Responsibility of the environment, well-being and a sustainable future

• Understand that events and peoples actions have causes and effects.