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
- Film: Picturing the past (and the future)
- Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?
- Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together
- The Elizabeth cake
- Teaching crime and punishment as a post-1066 theme
- Having fun through time
Interpretations
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Historical Interpretations
- Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots
- Scheme of Work: Grace O'Malley
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- To boldly go: exploring the explorers
- What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 2
Change and continuity
- Migration to Britain through time
- The Elizabeth cake
- Turning technology: making life better in Iron Age Britain
- Teaching crime and punishment as a post-1066 theme
- Making the most of a census
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
Causation
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Causation
- The Elizabeth cake
- 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
Significance
- Local significant individuals
- Making the most of a census
- Getting to grips with concepts in primary history
- One of my favourite history places: Fulham Palace
- A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England
- Anglo-Saxon Women
Chronological Understanding
- ‘Come all ye fisher lassies’
- A cultural legacy: the theatre of ancient Greece
- Ankhu and Nebu of Deir el Medina
- Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS
- The Elizabeth cake
- ‘Miss, did the Romans build pyramids?’
Inclusion
- Migration to Britain through time
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- Muslim soldiers in World War I
Using Sources
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Evidence and sources
- Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots
- Knowledge-rich approaches to history
- Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade
- The Elizabeth cake
- Emerging historians in the outdoors
Similarity & difference
- Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
- Migration to Britain through time
- Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS
- Teaching crime and punishment as a post-1066 theme
- Making the most of a census
- How can old advertisements be used in the primary classroom?
Diversity
- Migration to Britain through time
- Scheme of Work: Grace O'Malley
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1
- Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
Big Picture
- Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together
- ‘Miss, did the Romans build pyramids?’
- 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
Controversial issues
- Migration to Britain through time
- Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade
- 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
- Primary history and British values