History
History challenges pupils to ask and answer important questions, find evidence, weigh it up and reach conclusions. Pupils at BST learn about the history of Britain, Europe and the wider world, building up in their heads a framework of significant events and people. As they do so, they see the diversity of human experience and understand more about themselves as individuals and members of society.
History helps pupils to become confident and questioning individuals, equipping them with knowledge and skills that are prized in adult life.
Key skills:
- Pupils can identify and investigate, individually and as part of a team, specific historical questions or issues, making and testing hypotheses
- Pupils can reflect critically on historical questions or issues.
- Pupils can identify, select and use a range of historical sources, including textual, visual and oral sources, artefacts and the historic environment
- Pupils can evaluate the sources used in order to reach reasoned conclusions.
- Pupils can present and organise accounts and explanations about the past that are coherent, structured and substantiated, using chronological conventions and historical vocabulary
- Pupils can communicate their knowledge and understanding of history in a variety of ways, using chronological conventions and historical vocabulary.
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Dr Steven Reilly has an MA in Ancient History from St. Andrews University and a Ph.D in Education from St. Petersburg State University in the USA. He is also an Advanced Skills Teacher for History. Before coming to BST, he was Head of the Humanities faculty at John Spendluffe Technology College in the UK. He enjoys camping and most sports. |
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