History

Extracts from the UK National Curriculum Programmes of Study

Key stage 1
Knowledge, skills and understanding

Historical enquiry

4.   Pupils should be taught:

a)   how to find out about the past from a range of sources of information [for example, stories, eye-witness accounts, pictures and photographs, artefacts, historic buildings and visits to museums, galleries and sites, the use of ICT-based sources]

Organisation and communication

5.   Pupils should be taught to select from their knowledge of history and communicate it in a variety of ways [for example, talking, writing, using ICT].

Key stage 2   
Knowledge, skills and understanding

Historical enquiry

4.   Pupils should be taught:

a)   how to find out about the events, people and changes studied from an appropriate range of sources of information, including ICT-based sources [for example, documents, printed sources, CD-ROMS, databases, pictures and photographs, music, artefacts, historic buildings and visits to museums, galleries and sites]

Organisation and communication

5.   Pupils should be taught to:

c)    communicate their knowledge and understanding of history in a variety of ways [for example, drawing, writing, by using ICT].