Curriculum Issues
The history curriculum is riddled with issues to consider, from the content, to concepts and processes related to history, to the whole school issues that need to be considered as they relate to the history curriculum. In this section you will find articles, resources and guidance helpfully broken down into the different issues and areas that affect the planning and delivery of history in schools.
Planning
- The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
- Having fun through time
- The gall nuts and lapis trail
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- Who Built This City? Using archives and museums to trace changes in our local area
- Creative ways to develop Enquiry skills for KS1 and KS2
Interpretations
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- To boldly go: exploring the explorers
- What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 2
- What can you tell about the Maya... ?
- The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
- A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England
Change and continuity
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- Coherence in primary history
- The past through toys and games
- Using original sources
- So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?
Causation
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings: push, pull, cause and consequence
- To boldly go: exploring the explorers
- Ancient Sumer
- Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- Assessment and Progression without levels
Significance
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England
- One of my favourite history places: Fulham Palace
- Using the back cover image: Mummified cat
- Anglo-Saxon Women
- What made Cleopatra so special?
Chronological Understanding
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- Trade and pilgrimage in the Abbasid Caliphate
- Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum
- The potty timeline: an effective way of using timelines
- To boldly go: exploring the explorers
Inclusion
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- Muslim soldiers in World War I
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- Teaching diversity in the Primary History Curriculum
Using Sources
- Emerging historians in the outdoors
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- How can old advertisements be used in the primary classroom?
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
- Using the back cover image: Moustache cup
- Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist
Similarity & difference
- How can old advertisements be used in the primary classroom?
- Why stop at the Tudors?
- Food – a theme for learning about the past
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?
- Our Iron Age challenge
Diversity
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- Women’s History Month: Female Voices
Big Picture
- The Blitz: All we need to know about World War II?
- Trade and pilgrimage in the Abbasid Caliphate
- Siege coins of the English Civil War
- Having fun through time
- Coherence in primary history
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
Controversial issues
- Writing books for young children about the First World War
- Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
- Teaching the Holocaust in Primary School
- The Kindertransports: teaching challenging history at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3
- Primary history and British values