Primary History resources
The National Curriculum for history from Key Stages 1-3 requires pupils to know and understand the diverse stories of the British Isles from prehistory to present, as well as studying aspects of local, national and international history. History should equip pupils to ask questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. In Key Stages 1 and 2, pupils are required to study British history from the Stone Age through to 1066, as well as a local study, ancient Greece, another ancient civilisation, a wider world study and a chronological unit that extends pupils knowledge beyond 1066. The National Curriculum does not have to be followed by academies.
The Stone Age to the Iron Age
- Rethinking the Stone Age to Bronze Age
- The Standing Stone
- Teaching pre-history outside the classroom
- Our Iron Age challenge
- From the Iron Age to Robin Hood
- Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bronze Age?
Ancient Civilisations
- The potty timeline: an effective way of using timelines
- Making the children work for the information!
- Did all Ancient Greek women stay at home and weave?
- Making global connections through history
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 69
Roman Britain
- One of my favourite history places: Chichester's Roman walls
- Ordinary Roman life
- One of my favourite history places: Hadrian's Wall
- What confuses primary children in history...
- From the Iron Age to Robin Hood
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70
The Anglo-Saxons, Vikings & the Normans
- One of my favourite history places: Durham Cathedral
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76
- The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
- The gall nuts and lapis trail
- A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England
- Where were the women in Anglo-Saxon England?
Local Study
- Lest We Forget: First World War objects of Remembrance
- Teaching local history through a family
- One of my favourite history places: Durham Cathedral
- Using role-play to develop young children’s understanding of the past
- How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?
- Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist
World Study
- Trade and pilgrimage in the Abbasid Caliphate
- The potty timeline: an effective way of using timelines
- Muslim soldiers in World War I
- Why stop at the Tudors?
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- Making sense of the Maya - an enquiry planned with skills and concepts in mind
Individuals & Events
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81
- To boldly go: exploring the explorers
- Ideas for Assemblies 80: A slightly different view of remembrance
- Women in parliament since 1918
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
Living Memory
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- The Blitz: All we need to know about World War II?
- Lest We Forget: First World War objects of Remembrance
- Women in parliament since 1918
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
Beyond 1066
- Teaching local history through a family
- Elizabethan times: Just banquets and fun?
- For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes
- Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist
- It worked for me: Knights and castles
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
Global Learning Programme
- The Global Learning Project
- The Global Learning Project
- Global Learning November 2016
- Global Goals
- GLP Expert Centre Newsletter
- Global Learning July 2016
Primary classroom posters
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 77
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 75
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73
Assessment
- It worked for me: investing in dialogue as a tool for assessment
- Assessment and feedback in history
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Progression from EYFS to Key Stage 3
- Progression & Assessment without Levels - Guide
- Assessment in Primary History - Guidance
Lessons & Exemplars
- Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
- Primary Teaching Methods
- Leading Primary History
- Background information for teachers