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
- 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
- Anglo-Saxon Women
- Studying the Maya
Change and continuity
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- Coherence in primary history
- The past through toys and games
- So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?
- Using original sources
- Teaching history and geography together in a meaningful way
Causation
- Ancient Sumer
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
- Investigating the Indus Valley (2600-1900 B.C.)
- Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Significance
- A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England
- One of my favourite history places
- Mummified cat embalmed in linen cloth
- Anglo-Saxon Women
- What made Cleopatra so special?
- The Stone Age conundrum
Chronological Understanding
- Why stop at the Tudors?
- Here comes the ‘60s
- Having fun through time
- Number, shape and theory in the historic world
- The past through toys and games
- Making sense of time: Chronology for beginners!
Inclusion
- Muslim soldiers in World War I
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- Where were the women in Anglo-Saxon England?
- Teaching diversity in the Primary History Curriculum
- Studying the Maya
- KS1: Teaching about significant individuals
Using Sources
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
- Using the back cover: The moustache cup
- Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist
- For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes
- What can you do with an old postcard?
- Siege coins of the English Civil War
Similarity & difference
- 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
- Using shoes as an historical source
Diversity
- World War I: widening relevance in the modern world
- For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes
- Women’s History Month: Female Voices
- Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
- Where were the women in Anglo-Saxon England?
Big Picture
- Siege coins of the English Civil War
- Having fun through time
- Coherence in primary history
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
- Making global connections through history
- Teaching diversity in the Primary History Curriculum
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