History Objectives
1. To further the acquisition of historical knowledge and understanding.
2. To develop a range of essential intellectual and study skills.
a. Intellectual Skills
Ability to read and listen with understanding.
Ability to write and speak with fluency, clarity, relevance, appropriate detail and confidence.
Ability to make informed, reasoned, autonomous judgements, and to construct and present
coherent arguments in writing and orally.
Ability to recall information.
Ability to understand the nature, variety and limitations of historical evidence.
Ability to empathise.
b. Study Skills
Ability to self-organise in terms of materials, tasks and time.
Ability to locate and extract relevant information from primary and
secondary sources.
Ability to present information neatly and accurately in writing and orally.
Ability to work effectively independently, in small groups and within a class.
Ability to compile organised, appropriately detailed notes.
3. To develop an understanding of a range of concepts, for example cause and
consequence, continuity and change, similarity and difference and chronology.
4. To develop social skills.