Richard Kennett is a senior leader, teacher, blogger, text-book author and member of HA secondary committee. In November 2018, Richard visited the Yorkshire History Forum to talk about his school’s experience of reviewing and re-planning their Key Stage 3 curriculum. This film is of Richard’s keynote speech at the Forum....

The resources in this section are from workshops presented for Secondary history teachers at the HA Annual Conference 2018. The conference took place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 18-19 May 2018. The HA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to join the history community on a weekend of research-led CPD and captivating history. In...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Megan Gooch and Amy Mann, Historic Royal Palaces How do you separate myths, legends, falsehoods and evidencebased history? The requirement at GCSE for students to understand the building of historical narratives makes attainment more challenging, unless interpretation...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Harry Fletcher-Wood, Institute for Teaching Formative assessment allows us to respond to students’ needs rapidly and appropriately.  This presentation looks beyond gimmicky approaches to Assessment for Learning and agonising demands for ‘tripleimpact marking’, outlining what research in...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. James Griffiths, National Holocaust Centre and Museum Through exploring the experiences of German Jewish children who grew up under the Nazi regime and left on the Kindertransports children can develop their historical knowledge of the period from...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Zoë Howells and John Blake, Harris Federation The workshop sets out thinking behind designing a truly stretching, appropriate and historically sound curriculum at KS3 which develops students’ knowledge and understanding, as well as ability to write historically...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Emma Manners, National Trust and Steve Illingworth, Edge Hill University The new history GCSEs require a depth study from the medieval or early modern periods. For most teachers, this will be something new at this level. This workshop,...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Iqbal Husain, The National Archives This session shares with delegates some of the exciting ways in which The National Archives' Outreach Team are developing resources and partnerships to explore the often difficult and messy relationship Britain had with...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Alex Ford, Leeds Trinity University Historical interpretations are now specified for teaching in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, but they remain one of the least taught aspects of the history curriculum. Can your students separate Kenez’s...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Liz Egan, Thackray Medical Museum Thackray Medical Museum has recently launched a new range of online teacher resources, designed specifically to assist in the teaching of each of the new History of Medicine specifications (AQA Health and...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Jim Carroll, Esher College History education stakeholders often report that students find extended writing prohibitively demanding. These stakeholders’ respective proposed solutions, however, have often been pluralistic to the point of contradiction. By systematically drawing on the recommendations...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. David Brown, The Sixth Form College Farnborough and Dani Hilliard, University of Exeter Making reasoned judgements based on ‘valid criteria’ is a key part of assessment across the new A-levels.  However, for A-level students this is an...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Arthur Chapman, UCL Institute of Education Analytical thinking is key to success at A-level. It is easier to identify its absence than it is to explain what it means. This workshop focuses on helping A-level history students understand...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Christine Counsell, The Inspiration Trust Frustrated by whole-school policies which might make sense in generic terms but which create profound distortions where history is concerned and compromise excellence and access? All middle managers need to report to SLT...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Gareth Davey, Bank View SchoolA look at how the ASDAN History Short Course has been used in a post-16 setting with SEND learners and how the course has helped to develop both academic and practical skills for...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Carolyn Massey, Thomas Deacon Academy An interactive workshop exploring the creation of academic, peer review communities in the classroom, involving the deployment of real historians as the gold standard for students’ knowledge, extended writing and peer review...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Katharine Burn and Jason Todd, University of Oxford The approach of the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act is a good time to take stock of the place of women in history. This workshop...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Andrew Payne, The National Archives and Ben Walsh, Author and Trainer ‘You were never more than 10 miles from an immigrant in medieval England.’ Professor Mark Ormrod’s claim challenges preconceptions about the extent of migration during the...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn, Justice to History This is a good time to reconsider Key Stage 3 schemes of work in the light of changes in GCSE and A-level examination courses. Students tell us that well-sequenced...

This workshop took place at the HA Annual Conference May 2017 in Manchester. Catherine McHarg and Lois Gyves, Historic England Fulfilling the local study element of the curriculum at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 doesn’t have to mean spending loads of your time re-creating the entire history of...