History
A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
At Treetops all pupils do curriculum courses in History, where we try to make the subject adventurous, fun, exciting and educational. We have a practical hands-on approach where we make everything as realistic and as child-centred as possible. We include as many videos and images in the work as we can. A most important aspect is the History Field trip, where we take the pupils out of the classroom and carry out tasks and activities related to all the history aspects we cover. These can include educational trips to the Imperial War Museum in London and Duxford, the Tower of London, as well as educational visits to the local museums in Grays, Tilbury and Colchester. We also take part in the Annual remembrance day celebrations .We try at all times to integrate the history we do, with the Geography, cooking, Design & Technology, PSHE and other lessons at school. Pupils are also given tasks or projects over their vacations. We encourage the pupils to take pictures of historic significance on holiday in foreign or local places, so that we have our own Holiday History Web Gallery, for the whole school to enjoy.
Pupils have access to a wide range of technology, computers, interactive CDs ,Interactive White Boards, Web cams and, digital cameras , camcorders, videos challenges from which they can develop their historic knowledge. As usual we also utilise both the history and school libraries where there is more than enough information for the pupils to access. Our pupils are encouraged to work independently with any aspect that can enhance the subject, and we do encourage internet, television and written press research on a weekly basis.
At Treetops all pupils do curriculum courses in History, where we try to make the subject adventurous, fun, exciting and educational. We have a practical hands-on approach where we make everything as realistic and as child-centred as possible. We include as many videos and images in the work as we can. A most important aspect is the History Field trip, where we take the pupils out of the classroom and carry out tasks and activities related to all the history aspects we cover. These can include educational trips to the Imperial War Museum in London and Duxford, the Tower of London, as well as educational visits to the local museums in Grays, Tilbury and Colchester. We also take part in the Annual remembrance day celebrations .We try at all times to integrate the history we do, with the Geography, cooking, Design & Technology, PSHE and other lessons at school. Pupils are also given tasks or projects over their vacations. We encourage the pupils to take pictures of historic significance on holiday in foreign or local places, so that we have our own Holiday History Web Gallery, for the whole school to enjoy.
Pupils have access to a wide range of technology, computers, interactive CDs ,Interactive White Boards, Web cams and, digital cameras , camcorders, videos challenges from which they can develop their historic knowledge. As usual we also utilise both the history and school libraries where there is more than enough information for the pupils to access. Our pupils are encouraged to work independently with any aspect that can enhance the subject, and we do encourage internet, television and written press research on a weekly basis.
