Pupils will have opportunities to practice and develop the following skills and understanding.

Curriculum links

English 

• Spoken language - ask relevant questions to extend understanding and knowledge.
• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

Geography

Human and physical geography: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water

History 

Knowledge of a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – one study chosen from:

• early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c AD 900
• Mayan civilization c AD 900
• Benin (West Africa) c AD 900-1300.

Fundamental British Values

An appreciation of and respect for different cultural traditions. 

Learning outcomes

Pupils will:

• Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of world history.
• Establish clear narratives within and across the period they study.
• Understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies; and their achievements and follies.
• Be introduced to African history and celebrate the achievements and success of a specific African culture and society
• Learn to analyse and contribute to current debates from an independent perspective
• Develop a neutral understanding of the British empire and its impact on global societies, gaining an insight into the perspectives of those once colonised by the British empire.

Skills

• Identify significant events, make connections, and draw contrasts.
• Recognise and identify artefacts used in the sessions and some of the evidence they reveal about life in the past.
• Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
• Begin to recognise that the past is represented and interpreted in different ways, and to give reasons for this.
• Improve their speaking and listening skills in a group discussion context.
• Use historical terms and concepts in a sophisticated and empathetic way
• Analyse primary sources, including reliability and bias

Concepts and attitudes

• Learn about artefacts in a museum context and as primary sources of investigation
• Understand how to treat and respect the objects they are working with, which are thousands of years old and hold sacred significance
• Recognise cause and consequence.
• See World Museum as a resource for historical research to help understand the ancient world.
• Increase confidence in identifying and challenging colonial history.
• Appreciate a variety of perspectives when leaning about historical events.