Enhanced Resource Provision History Curriculum for SEND rationale

This curriculum is focused on implementing a ‘Stage not Age’ approach, where academic progression is based on a child’s individual stage of development, rather than their age. The curriculum plan provides a hierarchical focus for continuous provision, diversifying outcomes and allowing children to develop new skills and concepts independently. The document also provides tools for monitoring progress and planning next steps for children engaging in subject-specific study.

When developing this plan, I was challenged with mapping a curriculum that delivered the same subject topic to children at different stages of academic study. Therefore, I developed this framework by stretching out national curriculum aims for History. In following the aims, I have, like many others, created a skills/disciplinary knowledge curriculum for teachers. Here, the aim is broken into concepts within the subject, for example ‘I can build a chronological narrative - Understand the concept of time’. Then, objectives were developed within this focus, relating to the child’s understanding of the topic. Now, teachers can choose what to teach as part of their knowledge: this may involve the statutory requirements for history or non-statutory requirements depending on what fits best with inside their continuous provision or cross-curricular learning.