History

 'Let Your Light Shine'

Matthew 5:16

Welcome to History at St Peter's C.E. Primary School

At St Peter's, we want children to develop a love of History that will stay with them into adulthood.  Above all, our intent is for all children to develop the skills to become questioning and enquiring historians. We are determined that alongside historical knowledge there will be a high focus on the development of specific historical skills and an understanding of how historians work. We believe these skills will be beneficial in many other subject areas and indeed as a life skill. We want to inspire the pupils' curiosity to know more about the past and to consider the fundamental historical concepts of continuity and change, cause and consequence, significance, interpretation and similarities and differences within the different periods studied.

At St Peter’s, we have designed our History curriculum with the intent that our children will: :

• develop a curiosity and understanding of events, places and people in a variety of times and environments.
• develop an appreciation of human achievements and aspirations.
• understand the values of our society.
• think critically and be able to support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using historical evidence from a range of sources. 
• learn about the major issues and events in the history of our own country and of the world and how these events may have influenced one another.
• develop a knowledge of chronology within which the children can organise their understanding of the past.
• understand how the past was different from the present and that people of other times and places may have had different values and attitudes from ours.
• distinguish between historical facts and the interpretation of those facts.
• understand that events have a range of causes and that historical explanation is provisional, debatable and sometimes controversial.
• understand how historians investigate the past and how they construct historical claims. 

UKS2 are working towards an exciting history project to be displayed at Astley Hall, investigating soldiers from Chorley Pals who died in the First World War. Volunteers from Chorley Family History came into school to help us research the soldiers on the 1911 census and through their military records available on line.

We will carry on our research as many lived in the same streets as us. Many were textile mill workers and we would like to understand more about their lives in chorley at this time.

We will be making small teddy bears to remember the Farnell teddy bears which were given to soldiers as a keepsake to remind the men of their loved ones at home. There are moving stories of teddy bears being returned to families but without their owners.