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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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  • What your local Archive Service can offer to schools

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    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...

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  • Whose history is it anyway?

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The main goals of educating children are meeting their educational and achievement needs. Herein is the challenge. Our classrooms are a cornucopia of diversity. The most prominent or acknowledged being gender, class, religion and ethnicity. Some...

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  • ‘Golden threads’ in primary history

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    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...

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