History

Curriculum Intent

History at the Lowry Academy enables students to understand the local area and how its history has been shaped by wider influences, and how wider influences have shaped the local area, by exploring a range of periods, people and places from the past. Our curriculum is knowledge rich allowing our students to develop a coherent, chronological understanding of Britain’s place in the world.

We also intend for our students to not just become better at remembering and retaining information, but also become better at history as a discipline; to become historians, ensuring students' progress in their understanding of concepts such as causation, change and continuity, and how historians work with historical evidence to create their interpretations of the past. Students will also develop a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of substantive concepts so they can understand the world around them, with concepts such as ‘authority’, ‘trade’ and ‘empire’, appearing in various contexts throughout our curriculum.