The History Department at the Isle of Wight Education Federation prepares students to take an active part in the world beyond school by developing their all-round communication skills. From the beginning of the lesson there will be a driven focus towards a skill with the enquiry question at the beginning. If evaluating interpretations is the focus of the lesson, then this will begin with a starter focusing on a view point that students will have to try examining on both its content and provenance. As the lesson goes on they will be introduced to more interpretations and context as to who wrote them. This eventually will culminate with them making an comment on the convincingness of each interpretation. The judgement and evaluation element will be present in almost all lessons as even though it is not the focus, they will be using the enquiry led question to always be making a judgement at the end. Reading is promoted, with most written pieces, students are examining for criteria such as Who/What/When/Where/Why to understand the event or interpretation they are looking at.