- to develop an interest in the past and an appreciation of human achievements and aspirations;
- to understand the values of our society;
- to learn about the major issues and events in the history of our country and of the world and how those events may have influenced one another;
- to develop a knowledge of chronology within they can organise their understanding of the past;
- to understand how the past was different from the present and that people of other times and places may have had different values and attitudes from ours;
- to understand the nature of evidence by emphasising history as a process of enquiry and by developing the range of skills required to interpret primary and secondary source materials;
- to distinguish between historical facts and the interpretation of those facts;
- to look for explanations of change in terms of human intentions, beliefs and motives as well as of environmental factors;
- to understand that events have usually a multiplicity of causes and that historical explanation is provisional, always debatable and sometimes controversial;
- to encourage an understanding of the processes of change and continuity in human affairs and the recognition that change and progress are not necessarily the same;
- to develop insight, clearly based on historical evidence, in order to offer explanations of past events and to develop also an informed appreciation of the perspectives and motives of people in the past;
- to contribute to personal and social education by developing certain attitudes and values: for example a respect for evidence; and toleration of a range of opinions;
- to communicate clearly, employing a wide range of media.
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