Curriculum
See our Primary curriculum schemes of work and our Home learning resource hub.
This section contains curriculum guidance and resources broken down by age range (Key Stages). Our Curriculum resources have been split into four core areas to support your teaching of the national curriculum:
Early Years and Key Stage 1: classroom resources, planning resources, resources to help you develop enquiries and plan for progression and assessment.
Key Stage 2: classroom resources, planning resources, resources to help you develop enquiries and plan for progression and assessment. We also have a section on transition between Key Stage 2 and 3.
Primary history resources: resources split up so that you can tackle every area of the curriculum - Stone Age to the Iron Age, Ancient Civilisations, Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxons to the Normans, Local Study, World Study, Individuals and Events, Living Memory, Beyond 1066, Global Learning Programme, Assessment, Lessons & Exemplars.
Curriculum Issues: resources to enable you to plan for - Interpretations, Change & Continuity, Causation, Significance, Chronological Understanding, Inclusion, Using Sources, Similarity & Difference, Diversity, Big Picture, Controversial Issues, Literacy. Read more
Home learning resource-sharing hub
- Resource Sharing Hub: Key Stage 2
- Resource Sharing Hub: Key Stage 1
- Resource sharing hub for home learning
Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1
- The revised EYFS Framework: exploring ‘Past and Present’
- Developing chronological understanding and language in the EYFS
- Using stories to support history in the EYFS
- Scheme of Work: Grace O'Malley
- Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS
- Up Pompeii: studying a significant event at Key Stage 1
Key Stage 2
- Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom
- Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
- Elizabethan times: Just banquets and fun?
- Scheme of Work: The Blitz: all we need to know about World War II?
- How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?
Primary History resources
- Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom
- How did a volcano affect life in the Bronze Age?
- Scheme of Work: Stone Age to Iron Age
- Film: Teaching Prehistory
- Historical fiction: it’s all made up, isn’t it?
- Turning technology: making life better in Iron Age Britain