All pupils at St Peter’s access a broad, balanced and enriching history and geography curriculum. Our curriculum is exciting, purposeful and packed full of interesting knowledge. We stimulate the children’s interest, curiosity and understanding about history and geography through key questions and wherever possible we enrich the curriculum with visits and visitors.
In history we teach pupils a sense of chronology and through this children develop a sense of identity and an awareness of the challenges of their time. Teaching of the progressive knowledge and skills, equips children to ask questions, think critically, consider evidence and develop perspective and judgement.
History teaching will help pupils to understand the complexity of their lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and the relationship between different groups. This learning knowledge will facilitate the critical, empathic thinking of lifelong learning.
We explored artefacts linked to World War II on our trip to the museum at Cannock Chase. We learnt about evacuation, rationing and air raids. We took part in role play, thinking about what it would be like to be evacuated and what our experiences might be like with our host families.
Class 3 are learning about World War II. We welcomed Mr Robins into school to talk to us. He told us all about Alton during the war. We learnt about the space under the Malt House where the children from school went if there was an air raid and that the army used Alton Towers as a training ground! We also enjoyed trying on some caps and jackets that soldiers wore. We learnt that no bombs fell on Alton but some did drop on surrounding countryside, this was normally if pilots were on their way back from Liverpool and needed to lose the weight of the bomb to help them fly quickly.
