At Ward End we are delighted to be delivering our History, Geography and Religious Education lessons from the Opening Worlds curriculum.

 Opening Worlds lessons are;-

– Accessible for all as they use the ’10 Techniques for Teaching’ that deliver lessons where all children are included. This will have a positive impact on the attainment of all our pupils.

– Delivered with a strong focus on oracy ensuring all children are able to access new knowledge and associated vocabulary. The emphasis on the acquisition of vocabulary will undoubtedly impact on their ability to understand an increasingly diverse range of texts.

– linked. The are clear links between subjects which aim to strengthen children’s ‘sticky’ knowledge. This begins from the very first units in Year 3.

In studying history as a discipline, pupils will:

• use the concepts of continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity and difference, and significance, in order to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses;
• practise the methods of historical enquiry, understand how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, gain familiarity with diverse primary sources that the past leaves behind and discern how and why subsequent arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

In studying geography as a discipline, pupils will:

• engage in geographical reasoning about change (including past, present and future change), diversity across space, and interaction between places, phenomena and processes in the world;
• collect, analyse, record and interpret geographical data, gaining skills of geographical enquiry, including fieldwork;
• interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and digital technologies;
• communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

In studying religions through multiple disciplines, pupils will:

• learn about and learn from the different kinds of question human beings can ask about religious origins, beliefs and practices, namely questions that derive from philosophy, theology, social sciences and history, for example, when studying a particular religion in a particular place.