WELCOME TO THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT

The History Department is staffed by five dedicated teachers. Their knowledge, experience and expertise help the department deliver a dynamic curriculum. Students are not only enabled and encouraged to learn facts about the development of society but use the knowledge and skills learnt in History to enhance other aspects of the curriculum.

Our aim within History is to allow students to reflect upon the experiences they have learnt and engage in understanding the world we live in today. To achieve our aim we deliver a structured curriculum that supports individual learners. We have dedicated textbooks to help match individual student’s learning needs with worksheets to help pupils engage in what we hope is an exciting scheme of work. All of the teaching rooms contain interactive whiteboards allowing pupils to collaborate with the teachers in their learning.

History is a flexible part of the curriculum.  Not only does it enable students to learn the facts about the development of society, but through its wider scope, and the skills acquired from it, complements and enhances other parts of the curriculum.

The History Curriculum can offer much to the development of the student, as specified in the school aims and objectives.  Oral, literacy and analytical skills are constantly being tested, thus preparing students for the future.  The issues involved encourage lively, enquiring minds through understanding and discovery.

History at Hackney Free aims to:

• Be an intellectual exercise
• Prepare us for the issues we encounter in the contemporary world
• Encourage us to know and understand our fellow human beings
• Learn from past events so that we can anticipate and understand our reactions to world events
• Help young people so they may understand the world the world in which they live
• Develop essential skills; e.g. synthesis, extended writing, analysis, questioning and thought.