Subject Information - History

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At Padgate Academy we aim to provide our students with a History curriculum that facilitates an excellent contextual understanding of the world around them, immerses them in key historical knowledge and skills and provides them with a confidence and belief in their own abilities. 

History will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. 

Our intention is to explain the world and to understand the main events that have formed the way we live today, using the main narrative of British history to anchor understanding. 

Students are encouraged to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective judgement. 

We use scholarship as a driver so that students can explore different perspectives about the past so that they can confidently and skilfully analyse and question human motivation and society.

Our curriculum is underpinned with six questions: 

1, How has political power changed since 1066?

2, Why have individuals been significant in their period?

3, What has mattered to people since 1066?

4, Has war always created negative change?

5, How far have beliefs led to positive change?

6, What has been the impact of discrimination on people and societies?

These questions are regularly reviewed throughout the curriculum.