Welcome to Totternhoe's History page.
We believe that History is such a valuable aspect of the curriculum for our students to engage in. It teaches children key skills to analyse, explore and construct their own opinions and ideas upon significant events in their own personal timelines and then as they move through the school, use these skills and apply them to different historical time periods and events. We feel that our curriculum is diverse and provides children with the opportunities to build upon their knowledge and skills when they reach secondary school.
History Curriculum Progression Document Year A - click here
History Curriculum Progression Document Year B - click here
We believe that History is such a valuable aspect of the curriculum for our students to engage in. It teaches children key skills to analyse, explore and construct their own opinions and ideas upon significant events in their own personal timelines and then as they move through the school, use these skills and apply them to different historical time periods and events. We feel that our curriculum is diverse and provides children with the opportunities to build upon their knowledge and skills when they reach secondary school.
History Curriculum Progression Document Year A - click here
History Curriculum Progression Document Year B - click here
Totternhoe Timecapsules
During the period of lockdown, we set our pupils the challenge of becoming Historians themselves and documenting their experiences of lockdown. We set ourselves this challenge to see what had changed, how did we feel about this and also to give our pupils time to reflect. It provided a great comparison to other key historians and historical moments - would they have felt similarly? How did they document their historical events? Below please find some examples of time capsules that have been created by pupils at Totternhoe.
"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are it's makers." - Juliette Gordon Low
History Local Resident 'Visit'
The current circumstances have not dampened our children's love of history and their desire to explore our area further! As part of their topic 'Street Detectives' KS1 held an interview via Zoom with a local resident of the village who has lived here for over 30 years! They asked some amazing questions to delve deeper and understand the changes over time to their local community.
The current circumstances have not dampened our children's love of history and their desire to explore our area further! As part of their topic 'Street Detectives' KS1 held an interview via Zoom with a local resident of the village who has lived here for over 30 years! They asked some amazing questions to delve deeper and understand the changes over time to their local community.
