Our Aim

• We want History at Logic to feel relevant to students; whether we are looking at the Medieval period or more recent 20th Century. We do this by making connections to today’s world wherever possible and how the past has shaped this.
• We will make History accessible to all students as they are exposed to historical events, both at home and abroad, helping them to understand the present existing social, political, religious and economic conditions; all essential for developing cultural capital whilst developing good chronology.
• We encourage students to develop their own judgements and justify these with evidence as well as considering their peers’ viewpoints..
• We want students to become critical thinkers as they understand the importance of interrogating sources, judging reliability and accuracy of them and begin to evaluate different interpretations; a crucial skill in the 21st century with the ever increasing access to information.
• We aim for students to become knowledgeable, inquiring and caring young people who begin to develop an eagerness to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

Our Delivery

• Every lesson is built around a ‘big question’ that develops students’ understanding of the overarching theme.
• Every lesson the DNA focuses on retrieval practice often in the form of low stakes quizzing.
• Every lesson there is modelling to help students develop their literacy, oracy and historical thinking (visible thinking routines such as see-think-wonder).
• Every week there is knowledge checker quiz to check understanding from the previous week e.g. ‘Monday Funday’
• Every week there are activities focused on improved oracy such as ‘probing pairs’.
• ‘True or False’ is a whole class knowledge checker used to correct any misconceptions and develop understanding of key content.
• Every week students are given the opportunity to practise their writing through applying knowledge to an/part of an exam style question. 
• Tier 2 and 3 language will be used and unpacked explicitly each lesson.
• PREP will be consolidation of knowledge covered in lessons and the opportunity to apply it to exam style questions.
• The format of weekly PREP is: Fact (retrieval of key knowledge), Connect (connecting knowledge to deeper thinking questions), Apply (applying the content to exam questions)
• Students will work in exercise books, clearly labelled with the qualification and course component.  Twice per half term, students will complete their portfolio pieces which will be kept in portfolio folders and will be provided with feedback which they will respond to.