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When considering planning for any topic perhaps the first question should be to question your rationale for teaching this topic and how it relates to wider issues such as diversity, learning outside the classrooms, and whether to teach history discreetly or as a part of meaningfully linked cross curricular approach. In this section, you will find articles, guides, resources that will support you to develop your planning and helping children to make progress.

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  • Ways of making Key Stage 2 history culturally inclusive: A study of practice developed in Kirklees

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Kirklees, West Yorkshire comprises Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Batley. There is a population of 300,000. Minority, ethnic pupils account for nearly 20%. Over the next decade it is predicted that there will be an increase in the number of pupils of Pakistani, Indian,...

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  • Planning for diversity in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum

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    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content is now outdated, e.g. reference to the QCA. This article may therefore be more useful for those engaging in research than for practising teachers. See Primary History summer resource 2019: Diversity for current guidance.  In a series of three articles Hilary Claire...

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  • Asking the right questions. A study of the ability of KS2 children to devise and use questions as part of their own research

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Enquiry is an essential part of teaching history in the primary classroom. Asking and answering questions and selecting information relevant to the focus of an enquiry are important skills for young historians. Children often have much experience in answering questions in history...

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