The series consists of three webinars, detailed below. The webinar series was originally recorded in Spring 2025.

Session 1: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS

This webinar will explore ‘Understanding the World’ and its relationship to history education, understanding the child and their community, and making sense of chronology and progression in EYFS.

Session 2: Effective pedagogy for EYFS

This webinar will look at effective use of picture books to develop children’s historical vocabulary and their understanding of the past, and will explore thematic approaches for teaching ‘past and present'.

Session 3: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1

This webinar will support you to ensure well-planned transition to Key Stage 1, and will give advice on planning for mixed-age Reception/Year 1 classes. It will reflect on developing a coherent history curriculum across all phases in your school.

The course is for anyone who teaches at Early Years Foundation Stage, as well as primary teachers and history subject leaders.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • understand effective approaches for teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
• • understand how to plan for effective phase transition from EYFS to Key Stage 1
• • understand how to integrate EYFS within your whole school curriculum for history

The webinars are led by Helen Crawford and Sue Temple.

Helen Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Northampton and current chair of the Historical Association’s primary committee. Before moving into Initial Teacher Education, Helen was an Early Years teacher, class teacher and senior leader in a range of school settings.

Sue Temple is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cumbria, regular contributor to Primary History and an HA Quality Mark Assessor. Sue had a variety of roles before moving into Initial Teacher Education, including Early Years and Primary teacher, Nursery Headteacher and SEND teacher in a Pupil Referral Unit.

Each webinar is charged at £30 for HA members and £45 for non-members (VAT is zero-rated). You must be logged in to your membership account to access the member rate.

Did you know? You can save money by registering at the membership rate in addition to accessing a range of other benefits all year round. Find out more about Primary membership.

You can purchase and access each set of webinars using the links provided. Once you have purchased each webinar, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of the relevant resource page until the stated expiry date.

Expiry date: 6 January 2028

Payment is available by card only. We are unable to arrange block purchases or issue invoices, but VAT receipts are available upon request.

Please note that to register and access the content you will either need to have an active HA membership or a free basic account. You will need to be logged in to your account before you access this course. Become a member | Register for a free basic account