Historical Interpretations

bringing history alive in schools

Some of our huge collection of Roman weaponry, shields and armour.

Using a two man cow hide coracle.

Greek cavalryman armed with sabre and two javelins as in Xenophon.

Shooting the most powerful iron-framed Roman balista in the country.

Creative Curriculum

Using history to launch the creative curriculum

At its core, the creative curriculum is a carefully planned, thematic approach to teaching and learning, designed to support and stimulate children's natural curiosity and creativity. Our days are carefully designed to cover a subject in depth giving children time to reflect, consolidate and transfer their learning. It places direct experience at the centre of the curriculum and allows the children to express their knowledge, skills and understanding in a range of different ways.

Skills-based objectives lend themselves particularly well to a historical theme, and make imaginative activities equally beneficial to the children, as when learning objectives are rigidly applied to the National Curriculum Schemes of Work.

Our days promote skills such as: enquiry, deduction, investigation, note-taking, inferring, sorting, questioning, communicating, sequencing, considering, organising, listening, using appropriate vocabulary, presenting information and applying knowledge.

The time allowed for teaching history is limited. However the skills children learn in our history days are specific and meaningful, re-enforcing their knowledge and understanding of history in an exciting and memorable way.