History

At Maldon Court Preparatory School, History is taught in blocks to allow for a more solid and detailed look into each curriculum subject. It is introduced to our children at Key Stage 1 and is continued through Key Stage 2.

Following our recent ISI inspection:

History is now taught ‘As a cross curricular theme for one term each year, this brings together educational experiences across a large number of different subjects and consolidates subject skills.’

History is taught in our first term and third term in which it is part of a whole school cross curricular theme for example this year we are looking at ‘Our Local area’ focusing on historical and geographical learning objectives.

The objective of the course is to allow our children to develop an awareness of the past; the ways in which it differs from the present and what impact History has had in our present day lives.

In Key Stage 1 the subject is taught through a variety of topics, often using historical artifacts and stories of famous people and events as starting points.

Both Ancient and Modern History are addressed in Key Stage 2 including a unit of local history based on our own market town of Maldon, the site of the last Viking Battle in Britain.

The children will acquire precise historical skills based on the key questions of "how do we know?", "what happened?", and "why?"