Clear themes run through the work of the history department at Huntington School. A remarkably consistent emphasis on language and literacy, including work on speaking and listening of many types, is a hallmark of this sequence of six Year 9 lessons on the Holocaust, described in detail by head of department, Paula Mountford. This is language for thinking and language for better access to difficult ideas. Many small, carefully structured reflective tasks, involving reading, writing, speaking and listening, take pupils of all abilities into new knowledge and understanding. Paula also discusses the similarities and differences between work with ‘Set 1’ and ‘Set 4’. Another, equally strong theme is the explicit linking of the Holocaust with the present and the future: the department’s rationale for teaching the citizenship curriculum through history is illustrated very thoroughly in this practice-centred analysis.