CPD
As your subject association, the HA is here to support you through the provision of quality history CPD to suit a range of needs and budgets. Whether you are a subject leader for history looking at whole school development needs, or a classroom teacher or educator looking for support to help you teach history effectively, you will find an event or course to suit you and your needs. In this section, you can find our current courses and CPD series listed in What’s On, with more detail about each individual event in Available events. You'll also find past event resources and CPD guides and briefings as well as information and resources from our Teacher Fellowships. Read more
What's On
- Your Primary CPD calendar Spring 2024
- Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
- Webinar series: Deep dive with confidence
- Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
- Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
- Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Spring 2024
- Primary regional history teachmeet: North East
- HA Webinar: Ideas for measuring Impact in History in primary history
- HA Webinar: An enduring counterfactual: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
- HA Webinar: Making the most of your primary membership
- HA Webinar: Ideas for building your History Implementation in primary history
On-demand CPD
- Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
- On-demand webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Trade
- On-demand webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Monarchy
- On-demand webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Empire
- On-demand webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Religion
- On-demand webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: War
Free for members
- Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change
- Film: Making the most of your primary membership
- Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism
- Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans
- Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Filmed Lecture: Enmity and violence in early modern Europe
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)
Teacher Fellowships
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Briefing Packs
- Scheme of Work: Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scots settlement in Britain
- The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
- Summary of Key Changes to Primary Curriculum for 2014
- Progression without Levels
- Curriculum Mapping at Key Stage 2
- Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
CPD Guides
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work
- Survive and Thrive as a Primary History Trainee and NQT
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- Assessment in Primary History - Guidance