At Connaught we aim to provide our pupils with an understanding of the significant events throughout a broad time period and allow them to find out more about real life issues and how society has developed over time. 

The school’s curriculum is rooted in the solid consensus of the school’s leaders about the knowledge and skills that pupils need in order to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences in later life regardless of skill level, background and beliefs. In this way we believe our History curriculum can powerfully address social disadvantage and those children as identified with SEND. The History curriculum at Connaught is an inclusive model which reflects high expectations of academic, vocational and technical ambition for all pupils and does not offer disadvantaged pupils or those with SEND a reduced curriculum. The curriculum we offer our pupils is carefully tailored to give every pupil the opportunity to improve every day. 

It is clear what end points the curriculum is building towards and what pupils need to know and be able to do to reach those end points. The school’s History curriculum is planned and sequenced to enable pupils to build on what has been taught before and towards its clearly defined end points. 

The curriculum reflects the school’s local context by addressing typical gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills. Delays and gaps in learning are taken into account in curriculum planning that may have arisen as a result of the pandemic. Lessons delivered remotely are carefully planned and delivered in order to continue to offer a broad curriculum for as long as possible. 

We believe our History curriculum provides all pupils with challenge, adventure, intellectual curiosity and a better understanding of how the world as we know it today has developed.