At Brookfield Park, through our teaching of history we aim:

To foster in children an interest in the past and to develop an understanding that enables them to enjoy all that History has to offer;

To enable children to know about significant events in British history, and to appreciate how things have changed over time;

To develop a sense of chronology;

To know and understand how the British system of democratic government has developed and in doing so to contribute to a child’s citizenship education;

To understand how Britain is part of a wider European culture, and to study some aspects of European history;

To have some knowledge and understanding of historical development in the wider world;

To help children understand society and their place in it so that they develop a sense of their cultural heritage;

To develop in children the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis, evaluation and presentation and local area.

"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."
Edmund Burke

"History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
R. G. Collingwood

"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future."
Robert Penn Warren

How can history help me find a job?

You could be...

a museum curator,

a history teacher or lecturer,

an archaeologist, 

an archivist,

a librarian,

an historical preservation specialist,

a genealogist,

a history writer

or even a TV presenter!