St Anne's Catholic Primary School

Equality of Provision and Inclusion

Teachers ensure that the classroom is an inclusive environment in which pupils feel all contributions are valued and allow all children to participate. Teaching is responsive to pupil’s different learning styles and their experiences and starting points are taken into account in order to engage all pupils. Teaching styles include collaborative learning so that pupils appreciate the value of working together. All pupils are encouraged to question, discuss and collaborate in problem solving tasks. Teachers challenge stereotypes and foster pupil’s critical awareness and concepts of fairness, enabling them to detect bias and challenge inequalities.

As a school we take reasonable and necessary steps to ensure that all children can access a broad and balanced curriculum. This includes ensuring that the environment  and lesson content is accessible. 

A wide variety of strategies are used to ensure that teaching meets the needs of different groups of pupils. These include:

Differentiating lessons by:

• Using a range of differentiated resources.
• Providing differentiated tasks where appropriate.
• Differentiating questions.
• Using a range of groupings within the class to teach children and support them.
• The amount of adult support that is given and adapting this as necessary.

Effective lesson planning and management:

• Setting clear objectives that are understood by each pupil.
• Planning varied activities that motivate pupils and providing alternative activities where needed.
• Creating an atmosphere of encouragement and providing opportunities for pupils to achieve success.
• Identifying the most suitable pace for each student in order to provide sufficient individual challenge whilst fostering enthusiasm and facilitating concentration.
• Involving pupils in taking responsibility for their own learning and encouraging them to develop effective study skills.

SMSC in History

Spiritual Development: Children have the opportunity to reflect on the events of the past that require spiritual reflections, such as the effects and impacts of war. Children have the chance to express their emotions individually and as part of whole school events. Children are enabled to see the best in humanity by studying inspirational figures who have contributed positively to humanity - often in arduous circumstances and in the face of many challenges. This empowers children to see what is possible when the spirit is strong, giving each child the courage to grow.

Moral Development: Children are regularly assessing the impact of civilisations on human history and making judgements about the successes and weaknesses of each civilisation. In this way, children are able to judge the positives and negatives in each time period. Whilst balancing the context of each civilisation and what was and was not acceptable in each era, pupils can gauge what would be morally acceptable in today’s world and the future world which their generation will lead. Children have the opportunity to consider the concepts and themes of equality and justice during their time at St. Anne’s.

Social Development: Children develop their social skills by communicating in group and whole class scenarios. In history, children have the opportunity to discuss and debate many important questions and sources providing pupils with a platform to develop public speaking whilst also being respectful to others when sharing alternative viewpoints.

Cultural Development: Children have many opportunities to learn about and experience many different cultures from around the world through our history curriculum. This gives pupils an appreciation of different ways of life and a respect for different cultures across different time periods. This understanding of different cultures across humanity can enrich an appreciation of our own journey as a generation that one day will be viewed as a part of history in a modern, highly-globalised technological age.

Rights Respecting in History:

Article 29 - Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.

Article 30 - Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, regardless of whether these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.

British Values in History

The history curriculum promotes British Values throughout the school with carefully considered interleaving of recurring themes which are designed to build students’ confidence and assuredness in explaining the world they live in. Our aim is to encourage articulate, curious and engaged citizens, who can question and challenge inequality and unfairness in society.

British values, including those of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs are embedded in the History curriculum. Students will explore issues such as democracy in their historical context and relate them to the modern day through studying different periods in history . This enables the students to understand how, overtime, changes happened and to evaluate their impact.

By looking at the achievements of famous people including people from Britain, students develop an awareness of how they have influenced and shaped the country in which we live. This includes an appreciation of their work.

Teaching students to respect and value diversity is encouraged through showing respect for different viewpoints and ideas as well as in the ability to work individually and in groups.

Reading in History

At St Anne's, reading is at the heart of the curriculum. It is our intent to ensure that every child not only develops the skills of reading but also a love of reading
that will last them a lifetime. Our children read at home and school for pleasure, for information and to expand and enhance their knowledge and understanding across all
subjects. Appropriate opportunities are taken to enhance children’s learning in history through reading with the use of high-quality texts across a wide range of genres.

• Through reading in history we look to ensure;
• Knowledge of an extensive and rich vocabulary.
• Fluency and accuracy in reading across a wide range of contexts throughout the curriculum.
• To motivate children to read for both study and for pleasure.
• Extend knowledge through reading a rich and varied range of texts.
• A respect for historical evidence and the ability to make robust and critical use of it to support their explanations and judgements.
• A desire to embrace challenging activities, including opportunities to undertake high-quality research across a range of history topics.
• The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate past events.
• The ability to consistently support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views using detailed, appropriate and accurate historical evidence derived from a
  range of sources