At Our Lady’s Primary School, we believe that history is an integral part of a wide and diverse curriculum. It is concerned with sequence, time and chronology and is the study of evidence about the past. We believe it is intrinsic because it gives us a sense of identity, set within our social, political, cultural and economic relationships. In our History lessons, we try to inspire curiosity about how the past influences the present, what past societies were like and how these societies organised their politics, their beliefs and cultures. This helps our children to develop a chronological framework for their knowledge of significant events and people. In History, children find evidence, weigh it up and reach their own conclusions. To do this they need to be able to research, sift through evidence, communicate and present this in a balanced, objective fashion.