History

At Hawkinge Primary School, we are HISTORIANS! Our children love learning about history. Through teaching history in an inquisitive manner our children will have no limits to what they can achieve, we are inspiring the future museum curators and archaeologists. Our vision is that we can stimulate all children’s interest in the past, present and future through immersing them in a broad and rich curriculum. We believe that the development of key historical skills and concepts through our progressive curriculum is paramount to them becoming curious, life-long learners.  Children at Hawkinge Primary School acquire a sense of chronology through a themed approach where they make links between their learning. Due to our local area we are fortunate to be surrounded by history that is used to assist the children in developing their own sense of identity and belonging.  Throughout our curriculum we ensure that children experience opportunities to explore and learn about significant events in both British history and the wider world starting from Year Reception. Through enquiry based learning the children develop the skills needed to consider, debate, evaluate, analyse, and understand the impact events have had on the world around them. During the children’s time at Hawkinge Primary School they will experience a relevant and responsive curriculum that inspires awe and wonder through ‘real life’ experiences including exciting school trips, interactive workshops, artefacts and the world around them.

Miss Madden is the History Leader in school, she is supported by Mrs Samsun. They lead history because she wants to help children learn from the past to create a better future. 

‘In July 2021, Hawkinge Primary School was awarded the silver History Quality Mark through the Historical Association Quality Mark. This Quality Mark was received after providing evidence showing the quality of our history curriculum how enthusiastic the children are during lessons and how important we believe history is as a subject. We were very pleased with this result and look forward to continuing to keep our history curriculum fun, exciting and relevant.

Click here to read our ‘Progression of Skills and Knowledge Document for History

Pupil Voice Term 4 

Written by Year 6 pupils

This terms pupil voice was based on History, the Pupil Voice leaders asked the pupils questions about history, some of the questions involved things like: What have you learnt about in History so far & what would you like to learn more about in history .Then they were asked to vote for one question which was Does Green Pen help you improve your understanding of the lesson? History is about learning about the past, famous people, special events and special places. This year children have learnt about; the Egyptians, Victorians, WW1, the Stone Age, Titanic, the Taj Mahal, local history and about how everyday life has changed over time.

The children gave some good answers to the question:

“What do you enjoy learning about in history?”

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Using timelines

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Everything

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Finding out about how people dressed in the past

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Gory details!

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The Egyptian Afterlife

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American Slavery

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The history of football – Brazil

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Toilets in Victorian times!

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Dinosaurs

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Roman Funerals

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The hopscotches

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Finding out about special people

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Food in different periods of history

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World War I