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Burnside Primary School and Nursery
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- admin@burnside.northumberland.sch.uk
Burnside Primary School and Nursery, Northumbrian Road, Cramlington, NE23 1XZ
“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
We aim to inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the past, to help them explore Ancient Civilisations and Empires and learn about the lives of significant people of the past.
Welcome to History at Burnside
History is a foundation subject in the National Curriculum. The fundamental knowledge, skills and understanding of the subject are set out in the National Curriculum programmes of study. It is a subject that will be taught each term in conjunction, where possible, with other curriculum areas. Through an enquiry-based curriculum, children will develop their Historical knowledge and understanding, which will be driven by a progression of skills-based outcomes.
All pupils are entitled to access the History curriculum at a level appropriate to their individual needs; all History lessons will therefore be differentiated to meet the needs of the children in each class. The teaching of History helps to support Burnside’s ethos of:
Our Aims
Through our teaching of History, we aim to:
As with all our subject teaching, we do not teach History in isolation to other curriculum areas, we try to relate the work undertaken to real life situations and we also aim to:
Burnside Primary School and Nursery
Burnside Primary School and Nursery, Northumbrian Road, Cramlington, NE23 1XZ