Curriculum
See our Primary curriculum schemes of work.
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
Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1
- Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS
- Up Pompeii: studying a significant event at Key Stage 1
- Riding along on my pushbike… exploring transport in EYFS
- Castles: distinguishing fact and fiction in the early years curriculum
- Using role-play to develop young children’s understanding of the past
- It worked for me: Knights and castles
Key Stage 2
- 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?
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
Primary History resources
- Turning technology: making life better in Iron Age Britain
- The Bronze Age: what was so special about copper and tin?
- Rethinking the Stone Age to Bronze Age
- The Standing Stone
- Teaching pre-history outside the classroom
- Our Iron Age challenge
Curriculum Issues
- Ofsted: primary guidance 2019
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 2