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Alternative Suggestions to the QCA Planning - Further Schemes of Work: In the...

The Olympics historical dimension opens up a plethora of possibilities for...

In 1864 William Penny Brookes brought the Shropshire Olympian Festival to...

Introduction Three of the most recent curricular editions of Primary History,...

Introduction Citizenship links. While most of us engage with the nature of the...

Introduction While discussing how we could teach the Olympics to a Year 5 or 6...

Introduction The Olympic movement provides the prefect opportunity to consider...

Introduction Time and change in stories Everyone loves a story and stories have...

Introduction The Italian confectioner Dorando Pietri is one of the most famous...

Introduction In a 10-week unit on Ancient Greece, we gave the fourth lesson...

The teaching ideas below are adapted from an idea the great John Fines...

Nazi Germany was the backdrop of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Nazi party used...

Introduction This article outlines ideas for teaching history with crosscurricular links to citizenship, with a Year 6 class...

Introduction Allocated the task of researching and presenting ideas for...

Whatever happened to the Standing Long Jump? It is a little-known fact that one...

The primary area of the Historical Association website contains the following material on The Olympics...

Introduction What has a small Shropshire town got to do with the modern Olympic...

Introduction The London 2012 Olympics presents a fantastic opportunity for cross-curricular teaching. All children are likely to be engaged on some level, with...

Introduction Possibly a ‘once in a lifetime' experience will be...

Introduction When I was a boy the Greek Olympics was one of the perennials of the primary history curriculum, alongside the Battle of Hastings and the...