History
The Akiva History curriculum is authentic and challenging; it provides memorable opportunities for our pupils.
At Akiva School the teaching of History gives our pupils an understanding of the past through learning about human achievements and experiences.
We aim to give all our children a History curriculum, which enables them to be confident, creative and independent learners and thinkers. We see to broaden children’s real-life experiences both inside and outside the classroom through educational visits, visitors, experimentation, exploration and discovery. We believe that within our History lessons our children acquire a range of knowledge and key skills, which they can apply and relate across the curriculum and in real life.
We aim to stimulate children’s interest in, and understanding of, the lives of people who lived in the past. We teach children a sense of chronology and, through this, they develop an understanding of their historical heritage. Thus, they learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in modern multicultural Britain. Moreover, by considering how people lived in the past, they are better able to make their own life choices today. In our school, history makes a significant contribution to citizen education. We teach children to understand how events in the past have influenced their lives today. We also teach them to investigate these past events and by doing so, to develop skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem-solving.
Further Information about History at Akiva
Tamara Gordon is the History Subject Leader