The series consists of three webinars each lasting approximately 1 hour. The webinar series was originally recorded in Spring 2026.

Session 1: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework

Key topics: 

• • Curriculum intent and coherence in history
• • Designing a knowledge-rich history curriculum
• • Connecting intent with implementation

 
This session examines how to articulate and evidence a clear and ambitious curriculum intent for history under the new Ofsted framework. It will emphasise genuine curriculum ambition over performative compliance, helping subject leaders and teachers refine their curriculum rationale. The session draws on exemplary research and best-practice compilations, ensuring consistency with both disciplinary rigour and a coherent progression of historical knowledge and skills.

Session 2: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history

Key topics:

• • Defining and identifying ‘impact’ in the history classroom
• • Assessing progression in substantive and disciplinary knowledge (the role of formative and summative assessment)

 
This session explores practical approaches to demonstrating curriculum impact. It encourages evidence of meaningful pupil progress without resorting to performative data collection. Participants will examine strategies grounded in research and best-practice guidance for assessing progression in historical thinking and knowledge.

Session 3: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum

Key topics:

• • Attending to the scope of a history curriculum
• • Evidencing inclusive practice through curriculum design and classroom culture
• • Story as a tool for inclusion

 
This session focuses on inclusivity and representation within the history curriculum, reflecting Ofsted’s emphasis on personal development and cultural capital. It provides strategies for ensuring all learners, including SEND and disadvantaged pupils, can access and engage with a broad, balanced, and representative history curriculum. Participants will explore evidence-informed approaches to embedding inclusion meaningfully in curriculum design and classroom culture.

The course is for anyone who teaches history at Key Stage 3, 4 or 5, including subject leaders, seconds in department/TLR postholders, and history leads at Multi-Academy Trusts. It will also be useful for Senior Leaders overseeing curriculum.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • Ensure your history curriculum planning meets Ofsted’s focus on intent, implementation, and impact, ensuring coherence across the key stages while remaining grounded in meaningful pupil outcomes rather than performative compliance.
• • Strengthen disciplinary thinking and knowledge-rich teaching that meets inspection expectations while deepening pupils’ understanding of history as a subject.
• • Develop strategies to evidence meaningful progress in history, demonstrating how pupils know more, remember more, and can do more over time, using approaches informed by recent studies and best-practice reports.
• • Ensure that curriculum design and classroom practice support equitable access so that all learners can engage with a full history curriculum.

Catherine Priggs is a freelance education consultant. She is a member of the Historical Association’s Secondary Committee and a specialist assessor for two exam boards.

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Each webinar is charged at £36 for HA members and £54 for non-members (inclusive of VAT). You must be logged in to your membership account to access the member rate.

You can purchase and access each set of webinars using the links provided. Once you have purchased each webinar, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of the relevant resource page until the stated expiry date.

Session 1: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework

Session 2: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history

Session 3: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum

Expiry date: 4 September 2028

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