Stories can be used as starting points for planning topics. Activities suggested below relate to ‘Understanding the world’ including Early Learning Goal 13 – People and communities:  Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members. They know about similarities and...

Imagine a place where your pupils become detectives working on mysteries from the past such as the tale of Thomas Sargeant, a 15-year-old factory worker who died in a chemical works in 1898. Your local archive is bursting with stories about real people like this which can give children an...

Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Six-year-old Rebecca asked me this question when I visited her classroom to share a book which I had written with her and her classmates. It seemed to me at the time that Rebecca was identifying a...

The term ‘golden threads’ has become increasingly part of primary history planning. It is often recommended as a means of avoiding curriculum atomisation and aiding retrieval. In this article Tim Lomas attempts to unpack what is meant by the term, what are some of the most popular ‘golden threads’ and...