At Easebourne CE Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire and equip our pupils with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in an ever-changing world. We are committed to fostering a love of learning, creativity, curiosity, and cultural awareness in every child, ensuring they develop into well-rounded, confident, and resilient individuals. Our Christian values of faith, hope and love, underpin all aspects of school life, promoting a caring, nurturing, and inclusive environment that celebrates diversity.
Core Principles
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Holistic Development: Our broad and balanced curriculum supports the academic, social, emotional, spiritual and cultural growth of our pupils. We nurture individual talents, promoting an inclusive approach.
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High Expectations: We encourage pupils to strive for excellence, valuing individuality and equipping them with self-discipline and confidence.
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Lifelong Learning: We instill a passion for learning through engaging, memorable experiences tailored to pupils' needs and interests.
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Community and Collaboration: We foster a collaborative community, valuing parents, carers and the wider community in supporting learning.
Curriculum Design
Our curriculum is carefully sequenced to develop pupils' knowledge, understanding and skills in a progressive and coherent way. We utilise spaced repetition to reinforce key concepts, ensuring pupils retain learning over time. New knowledge and skills build upon prior learning through structured revisiting of content.
Curriculum Implementation
At Easebourne, History is taught across each class in units through our personalised curriculum that enables pupils to study in depth key historical knowledge, skills and vocabulary. The Long Term planning is sequenced to ensure that our children develop the key Historical concepts of ‘Cause’, ‘Consequence’, ‘Change and Continuity’, ‘Similarity and Difference’, ‘Historical Significance’, ‘Sources and Evidence’ and ‘Historical Interpretation’, as well as cover everything in the National Curriculum.
Each unit aims to activate and build upon prior learning by being organised chronologically in Key Stage 2 to ensure better cognition and retention. As well as using specific period timelines in the classroom, we also use the ‘Easebourne Timeline’ so that chronology is embedded and children understand how different periods of history which they have studied throughout their time at school are linked.
Fertile Questions give each topic a key focus with children acquiring, in a carefully sequenced way, the key Historical knowledge needed to answer the fertile question at the end of the unit. These fertile questions look at different areas of History from different holistic perspectives in order to develop the social, emotional, spiritual and cultural growth of our pupils. Of course, we are not able to teach everything about one period of history in only six hours so these Fertile Questions give us the opportunity to focus on one significant portion of each time period in depth. History is taught for half a term per term with each class and links are made between Geography and History units to enable a deeper understanding of the places where these key historical events have occurred.
Our units are planned with our Christian Values in mind to give children an understanding of the past and hope for the future. They are Community focused to enable our children to get to know the locality well and understand how wider periods of history have impacted the local area.
In our strive for excellence and to continue our high expectations, throughout each unit pupils continually revisit previous content to reinforce key knowledge and vocabulary. Each unit has also been planned with a ‘Key Historical Figure’ so children can begin to understand focus people from the past and their impact on the world now. Accompanying each unit is a Unit Plan which contains key knowledge and concepts which all pupils are expected to understand and retain.
One school visit each year will have a Humanities focus but all trips have an element of History, including some of our key concepts like cause and consequence; change and continuity; and similarity and difference.