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  • Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story. In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
    Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and written sources

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pat Hoodless answers questions about history and written sources.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and written sources

  • Helping students make sense of historical time

      Primary History article
    This article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Once upon a time, educators believed that there was a property of children’s minds known as ‘understanding of time’. According to this belief, young children had little ability to understand when things happened, even within their own...
    Helping students make sense of historical time

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and archaeology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Don Henson answers questions about history and archaeology.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and archaeology

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Jo Barkham reviews 'Asha in the Attic' written by Gill Howell and illustrated by Alan Marks.
    Book for the Literacy Hour

  • A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians literally threw away? This material can cost nothing or be...
    A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

  • 'Hands On' Archaeology, A Case Study: Visiting the Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) in York

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Developing an understanding of archaeology during historical studies can be important. It enables children to realise how we come to know and indeed understand about the past. Studying the work of archaeology helps develop vital...
    'Hands On' Archaeology, A Case Study: Visiting the Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) in York

  • Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Science Museum in South Kensington, London is accessible through its website as well as through visiting the building itself and this article considers how history teachers can gain from using the collection and resources...
    Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

      Primary History article
    Mary Mills answers questions about accessing archive sources. Please note: this article dates from 2003 and some of the sources and services referenced may no longer be available.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

  • Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Indira is having problems reconciling sources and stories in teaching history. 
    Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using historical maps in the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Anna Disney and Peter Hammond answer questions about historical maps.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using historical maps in the primary classroom

  • Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Knowledge of the experience of women during Victorian times has developed considerably during the last thirty years. History had a privileged place within the British Women’s Liberation movement in the early 1970s and reclaiming the...
    Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

  • Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

      Teaching History feature
    This Issues Problem: Matilda Angevin, PGCE history student, is finding it hard to get to grips with teaching AS Level.
    Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Hilary Claire answers questions about Citizenship and History.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

  • Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Josie, PGCE history student, is finding that her use of the department's exercises on sources is not improving pupils' understanding of evidence.
    Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

  • Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge range of moving image material that provides, or purports to provide, direct documentary coverage of many historical events over the last 105 years. You can access much that is suitable for primary children from television and the video...
    Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

  • A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a series of stories, often about ordinary people and their ordinary lives, which can be built up...
    A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

  • ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. John W Robertson explains how computer databases can be used by primary school children to investigate local history.
    ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

  • Research the history of the fire service in the local community

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jayne Pascoe, third year BEd trainee teacher describes the use of the fire service in her assignment on 'exploring an aspect of local history'.
    Research the history of the fire service in the local community

  • A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record children’s impressions of their visit to an historical building.
    A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

  • The strange power of hats: using artefacts and role play in cross-phase, cross-curricular and community partnership work

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is a strange phenomenon of history education that the power of hats is little reported and little researched- so here is an article that says hats off to hats in history lessons, as well as hats off to artefacts, sound recordings...
    The strange power of hats: using artefacts and role play in cross-phase, cross-curricular and community partnership work

  • How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Primary History regularly contains articles from teachers who have taken some aspect of their locality and turned it into a really good activity. Hundreds of OFSTED reports as well, comment on really good practice in...
    How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

  • Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Working on written sources is fundamental to historical learning. A document, inscription or sign brings children directly into contact with the past in much the same way as an artefact. It is real and conveys...
    Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

  • Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. An OFSTED advisor discusses their views on the standards of primary history.
    Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

  • Monitoring, evaluating and planning the History National Curriculum: the role of the QCA

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The role of the History Team at QCA includes keeping under review the curriculum, assessment and qualifications. We have been involved in consulting on and providing advice to the DfES on the revisions to the National Curriculum, we have worked with the...
    Monitoring, evaluating and planning the History National Curriculum: the role of the QCA