Welcome to the STP History Department

As a department, we aim to deliver well designed programmes of study in line with National Curriculum and Examination board requirements.


  • To develop the skills that will encourage pupils to be confident learners and flexible thinkers who are able to work in a variety of learning environments.
  • To encourage pupils to question and to think for themselves so that on occasion they can work competently without direct adult supervision.
  • To allow pupils to enjoy challenges, occasionally experience failure and always react to it in a positive manner.



    • Attitudes and Values


    History has an important role to play in encouraging attitudes and values which we would want to foster in our pupils.

    Open mindedness and a respect for different interpretations and viewpoints. The understanding that a range of different conclusions can be reached from the same set of sources.

    Respect for evidence and objectivity in making judgements.

    Encouragement of an informed and responsible scepticism. A resistance to accepting things at face value.

    The confidence to think independently, to put together ideas and challenge accepted views.

    Sensitivity and tolerance to the viewpoints of people of other cultures and backgrounds in different times and situations. An understanding of the predicaments and attitudes of other people.

    Consideration of important moral questions and differing responses to problems which still exist. E.g. racism, poverty.

    A sense of personal identity and an awareness of community.

    A recognition that certain groups have been treated more favourably in some societies than in others. Also that some groups have been neglected by historians whilst others have enjoyed a high profile.

    An awareness of inherited stereotypes: e.g. North American Indians, witches, famous heroes and villains.

    An understanding of how rights and liberties have developed, how democracy has been achieved and at what cost. Foster a real interest in current affairs at a local, national and international level. Raise an awareness that the present has arisen out of the past and that the future is being made now.

    Encouragement of a genuine curiosity about the wider world and the use of history as a potential leisure interest.
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