Intent

We teach history at The Limes Primary Academy, using the CUSP curriculum, which is structured around the principles of advancing both substantive and disciplinary knowledge cumulatively. We ensure that substantive knowledge is built upon cumulatively by centering our curriculum around 6 key substantive concepts: community, knowledge, invasion, civilisation, power and democracy. These concepts are the golden thread that run through our history curriculum from EYFS – Year 6, and are revisited and explored through different lenses year upon year. The effect of this cumulative model supports opportunities for children to associate and connect with significant periods of time, people, places and events

Disciplinary knowledge is also threaded through our history curriculum, giving our children an understanding of how historians investigate the past and construct historical claims. Our children therefore develop the tools to work historically and construct their own knowledge of the past. They go on to use this knowledge to investigate change, continuity, similarity, difference and significance within and across the periods of history studied.

From EYFS – Year 6, strands of disciplinary knowledge are taught and built upon each year.

Please see an overview of our History curriculum here