HISTORY

'A people without a knowledge of its past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without roots.'  Marcus Garvey

At Mells, History is seen as an exciting, awe- inspiring subject which sets out to spark pupil’s curiosity of the past.

History is an important element of our schools STEAM based curriculum and is a driver for a rich variety of topics from EYFS to KS2.

Our history curriculum helps to develop children’s investigative, questioning and research skills, which they are able to bring to other subject areas as part of our cross curricular approach. As part of their programme of study, each year group and key stage have the opportunity to take part in enrichment opportunities, such as a trip to a local museum or recreated Roman villa.

An important aspect of the federations approach to history is to ensure that children are taught about significant individuals, both well known and local, who had an impact, a link too or were part of the period of history being taught.