HA Annual Conference 2011: The Primary Pathway

Full Workshop details! 

To book please contact Suzannah Stern on 0207 820 5989 or suzannah.stern@history.org.uk

The 2011 Annual Conference takes place at Manchester Conference Centre on 13^th and 14^th May 2011.  We have two fantastic days of workshops, talks, visits and much more.  This Conference will cater for all our education practitioners, as well as our general enthusiasts.

Primary Pathway:

Friday 11.45-12.45

1. Ring a ring o' roses: The nursery rhyme in the primary history classroom.

Alf Wilkinson - CPD Manager, The Historical Association

Children love story, and nursery rhymes are good stories. Many of them are based on historical events, and originated as ways to ‘learn history.'

How might we use nursery rhymes in the classroom to inspire and intrigue? To act as a stimulus to further investigation? To link school learning to home learning? This session will　explore ways we might do this, with primary pupils of all ages, but especially with Key Stage 2.

Queen Victoria by a Yoruba sculptor.

Friday 13.30-14.30

2. History mysteries: The mystery of Queen Victoria's missing wedding Ring

Jon Nichol - Editor of Primary History Journal and co-editor of the International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research

A royal Wedding provides a fascinating scenario for an historical investigation that casts pupils in the role of History Detectives who help two time-travelling children, Sam and Jane, solve the mystery of Queen Victoria's missing wedding ring. The pupils work in teams of up to four to investigate the mystery, to question; to plan their enquiry; to hunt out clues - search, interview, read; to extract; collate and process evidence; to hypothesise; to imagine; speculate and infer; to construct accounts and explanations; to test conclusions against the evidence and to present their findings to an audience. Attendees will receive a full set of resources.

Friday 14.45-15.45

3. A Victorians theme - Fusehill　Workhouse

Sue Temple - Senior Lecturer in Primary History, University of Cumbria

There are a wealth of documents and other source material　available to teach the Victorians but it can seem overwhelming to a classroom teacher. Through a Unit of work focussed on the local Workhouse, which is now the main University building, Sue will demonstrate how a range of sources (including maps and plans, census documentation, visual images　etc) can be used. By keeping a tight brief on one building this can help your children gain a range of Knowledge, Skills and Understanding through an in-depth study.

Saturday 9.45-10.45

4. Recipe for Creative History: Take one egg...

Barbara Sands - Primary Teacher

The Creative Curriculum is a carefully planned, thematic approach to teaching and learning, designed to support and stimulate children's natural curiosity and creativity. It places direct experience at the centre of the curriculum and allows the children to express their knowledge, key skills and understanding in a range of media. This case study shows how a simple discovery on a school trip lead to a project, which grew to provide an undercurrent of interest and excitement because, as far as the children were concerned, it had nothing to do with school work, but was the result of happenstance.

Code: SP BS 1

Saturday 11.15-12.15

5. Enthusing trainee primary teachers to use active history learning approaches on site

Chris Barlow - Senior Lecturer in Primary Geography with History, University of Cumbria

As a partnership tutor with an interest in history, I often hear in schools, that barriers of time, planning pressure, risk assessment, cost　and inexperience,　result in　teachers opting out of school visits or　‘doing a trip' without fully grasping the creative potential　available on-site. This session aims to explore how student teachers can　be　enthused to recognise the value of on site work with children by offering a case study of part of the ‘curriculum' element of a Tudor England module at University of Cumbria.

Code: SP CB 2

Hugh Moore - Senior Lecturer in History, and QTS students from the University of Cumbria

Is it possible to use Caesar's description of the people of Kent in the primary classroom and translate it from the Latin? We use an approach researched and designed by staff, students and school pupils from Cumbria University that has been used successfully in settings where nobody speaks Latin. We take a similar approach to the words (amongst others) of Pepys on the plague and great fire of London, Tactius' description of Boudicca and follow Odysseus' journey around the Aegean.

Code: SP HM 3

Saturday 15.15-16.15

7. Individual stories from the book of history; making people from the past real

Karin Doull - Principal Lecturer, Primary History and Holocaust Education, Roehampton University

History is about real people or as the HA says "Gossip well told". It is important when working with children that we remember the individuals within the story or the event. We focus on ‘the Victorians' or we do ‘the Second World War' in a vacuum that seldom connects children to some of the real individuals involved or the places where the history happened. This session will consider how to identify individual stories within the broad sweep of history.

Code: SP KD 4