Key Stage 2
The KS2 curriculum consists of both content and skills and we need to make it a coherent whole. The content consists of British and non-British units: Read more
Planning
- How to make a toy museum
- Blending history and creative writing: imagining a lost Anglo-Saxon poem
- Historical fiction: it’s all made up, isn’t it?
- Film: Picturing the past (and the future)
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
Progression & Assessment
- Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback
- It worked for me: investing in dialogue as a tool for assessment
- Assessment and feedback in history
- Tracking pupil progress
- Transition Key Stage 2 and 3
- Whole-school planning for progression
Enquiries
- Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions Part 2 (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions Part 1 (Primary)
- Teaching the Romans in Britain: a study focusing on Hadrian’s Wall
- Making the most of a census
- Scheme of Work: Comparing Ancient Civilisations
Classroom Resources
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
- Using apps in the history curriculum
- Using the back cover image: painted wooden police truncheon
- Women in parliament since 1918
- Ordinary Roman life
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context