The History curriculum at Co-op Academy Belle Vue is broad and balanced, meeting the National Curriculum in full whilst including diverse and marginalised voices - such as through our study of the Silk Roads, West African Kingdoms, and Black British Civil Rights. Our key aim is to promote academic excellence and character development for all students, regardless of their starting points. Staff members are specialists, taking part in think tanks on curriculum and working closely with the British Archives and the Holocaust Educational Trust to produce cutting edge resources. We enable students to thrive by investing in our staff. 

The History curriculum at Co-op Academy Belle Vue aims to:

• Offer a broad, knowledge-rich, and intellectually challenging curriculum which is  decolonised and ambitious for all.

• Focuses on the development of literacy through repeated encounters with challenging texts designed to extend students’ vocabulary and their understanding of historical debate.

• Ensure knowledge is sequenced coherently subject experts, ensuring students develop deep conceptual understanding of the powerful knowledge they are taught through repeated encounters with substantive concepts such as democracy, empire and religion.

• Ensure strong foundations are formed through links with prior and future learning to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for their next steps through our conceptual approach

• Core knowledge is interleaved to ensure memory and retention are at the forefront of student learning. This enables students to remember powerful knowledge in the long term. 

• The knowledge is built sequentially to form strong foundations through links with prior and future learning to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for their next steps.