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 Summer 2025
- Webinar series: Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
- On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
- Webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits: implications for primary history
- Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader
- On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2025
- HA Webinar: How can we prepare all pupils to achieve well in primary history?
- HA Webinar: How can we use professional development to effectively deliver primary history?
- HA Webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
- Webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits: implications for primary history
- Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
On-demand CPD
- On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
- On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence
- On-demand webinar: Helping children think about similarity and difference
- On-demand webinar: Helping children think about change and continuity
- On-demand webinar: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
- Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Rome
Free for members
- Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
- Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
- Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
- Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
- Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
- Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
Bespoke CPD
‘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)