Planning
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.
General
- Teaching primary history thematically – why it makes sense
- Teaching the Maya in upper Key Stage 2
- Developing a love of history through historical fiction
- Objects and objections: getting critical about using artefacts in primary history
- ‘Golden threads’ in primary history
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary history – take CARE!
Local History
- The Brontë sisters: teaching local history through a focus on one remarkable family
- Film: Discovering local and family history
- Building history connections with the local community
- How to make a toy museum
- Teaching local history through a family
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
Chronological Understanding
- Historical fiction: it’s all made up, isn’t it?
- Elizabethan times: Just banquets and fun?
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- Making the most of the post-1066 unit
- Scheme of Work: Thematic study - Education
- How do pupils understand historical time?
Outside the classroom
- Have we become better at organising and running primary history visits?
- Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits
- How a history club can work for you and your pupils
- Emerging historians in the outdoors
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
- One of my favourite history places: Bournville
Developing enquiries
- Planning a history unit of work from scratch
- HA Enquiry Toolkit
- How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?
- Making the most of a census
- Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset
- What confuses primary children in history...
Cross Curricular
- Developing a love of history through historical fiction
- 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?
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
- Teaching history and geography together in a meaningful way