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
Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1
- Curriculum Review Support Module - Primary
- Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework
- Animals who help us: teaching past and present in EYFS
- Creating drawings and environmental narratives for developing historical thinking
- Using children’s illustrators as a focus for learning about ‘Past and Present’ in EYFS
- Who is in charge?
Key Stage 2
- Curriculum Review Support Module - Primary
- Little coins, big histories
- Using inventories in Key Stage 2 history
- 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
Primary History resources
- Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
- Decoding medieval pilgrimage
- Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville
- James Macpherson: a Scottish Robin Hood
- Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks
- Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America
Curriculum Issues
- What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history?
- The role of oracy in primary history
- Film: What is a curriculum?
- Ofsted: primary guidance 2019
- What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 2
- What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 1