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  • Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Historical enquiry requires reasoning. Even historical imagination depends on being able to evaluate a number of possible responses to an hypothesis and mastery of detail and argument. The high levels of thinking in history of...
    Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian
  • Britain and the wider world in Tudor times

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The first two articles in this series introduced three generic principles which might underpin planning a scheme of work in the KS2 History Curriculum. Article 1 (Jan 2001) drew on contemporary history to analyse and explain the principles. Article 2 (May 2001)...
    Britain and the wider world in Tudor times
  • Enhancing temporal cognition: practical activities for the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Research during the last eighty years has suggested that ‘time’ concepts, such as chronology, duration and the usage of dating systems are difficult for children to assimilate. However, my recent research would suggest that temporal concepts...
    Enhancing temporal cognition: practical activities for the primary classroom
  • Planning for diversity in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum

      Article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content is now outdated, e.g. reference to the QCA. This article may therefore be more useful for those engaging in research than for practising teachers. See Primary History summer resource 2019: Diversity for current guidance.  In a series of three articles Hilary Claire...
    Planning for diversity in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum
  • Addressing the issues of knowledge, skills and understanding

      Article
    This section explores some of the key ideas and activities for time, causation, interpretations, enquiry and significance. There are also some ideas on how history can be linked with literacy.
    Addressing the issues of knowledge, skills and understanding
  • As a primary school teacher have you taught about the Holocaust?

      Primary History article
    Teaching the Holocaust at primary level can be incredibly rewarding and result in pupils broadening their historical understanding as well as encouraging them to consider other issues. The importance of challenging prejudice, ignorance and racism, the importance of not being a bystander and valuing life are just a few of...
    As a primary school teacher have you taught about the Holocaust?
  • Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past

      Primary History article
    Nursery rhymes are good sources of evidence about the past and their potential for developing children's understanding has been discussed in earlier editions of Primary History (Woodhouse: 2005, 2001; Cooper: 2005; Primary History : 2000) They may be used as starting points to provide information about past ways of life...
    Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past
  • Investigating children's awareness of changing values and attitudes through stories written in the past

      Primary History article
    Talking about historical stories written at different times in the past can reveal much about the more sophisticated understandings that young children have of the past. Primary school children often work with artefacts, historic architecture and sites to enable them to visualise and reconstruct the past. However, these sources do...
    Investigating children's awareness of changing values and attitudes through stories written in the past
  • 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
  • ‘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
  • What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history

      Article
    This section attempts to identify the principles for good history in primary schools both in terms of knowledge, skills, and understanding and how the teaching might be organised.
    What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history
  • Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In a recent article in Primary History Denis Hayes suggests that despite many lively ways of learning about the past, ‘history concepts will always be beyond both the experiential and conceptual reach of the youngest pupils’. Consequently...
    Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years
  • 'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rye Oak School is in its second year of ‘Fresh Start’ status and there are many issues in the school, including poorly motivated children and behavioural problems. Many of the children in the school were...
    'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines
  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary
  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 95

      Deaf Londoners in the 1660s
    Everywhere you look in history you can find deaf people and sign languages.
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 95
  • How do pupils understand historical time?

      Some evidence from England and the Netherlands
    One of the key aims of the English history National Curriculum is to ensure that pupils ‘know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative’. Teaching chronology is also important in the Netherlands. In this article we cover some aspects of teaching and recent research from...
    How do pupils understand historical time?
  • Our Iron Age challenge

      Developing historical understanding through building an iron age house
    The University of Chichester’s three-year BA (Hons) Degree for Primary Education and Teaching involves learning how to provide rigorous and creative educational opportunities for children. The course involves one creativity module each year. The final one involves the development of skills and confidence in creating problem-solving. Four of us were...
    Our Iron Age challenge
  • So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?

      Developing an understanding of the world in ancient times
    I will be honest – no child has actually asked me if the world was ever full of Ancient Egyptians! Having said that, by focusing on one part of the world, children are left with either this impression or the idea that nothing was happening elsewhere in the world. Clearly,...
    So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?
  • Time for a story

      Using stories in the Early Years and Foundation Stage
    Stories are an important part of a young child’s way of making sense of their world. Hilary Cooper’s excellent article ‘Why Stories?’ explores some of the reasons why stories are important to young children and their growing ‘understanding of the world’. This article is going to explore some recommended stories...
    Time for a story
  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68
  • Recorded webinar: How has warfare changed over time?

      Webinar series: Teaching British history that extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066
    Webinar series: Teaching British history that extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066 How and why has warfare changed from the Battle of Hastings in 1066, fought with armed with swords and shields, to the weapons of mass destruction of today? This webinar with Andrew Wrenn considers significant turning points such as...
    Recorded webinar: How has warfare changed over time?
  • Ofsted: primary guidance 2019

      A guide to what primary schools might expect from the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) 2019
    As we approach the introduction of the new Ofsted framework, it seems timely that we offer schools, subject leaders and teachers some guidance on how to approach the coming changes.  The call for a broad and balanced curriculum is given renewed emphasis in the new framework, but beyond that, curricula...
    Ofsted: primary guidance 2019
  • Ideas for Assemblies: historical events

      Article
    Here are a few suggestions for assemblies over the next few months (March-June); each idea is linked to a specific historical event from that month...
    Ideas for Assemblies: historical events
  • Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources

      Primary History article
    Jo Barkham shows how creative and challenging teaching can stimulate and engage even the youngest pupils in the reading of written, printed and multi-modal sources...
    Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources
  • Film: What is a curriculum?

      Article
    In this short film Steve Mastin outlines the HA's approach to curriculum plans and what to look for in a good scheme of work.
    Film: What is a curriculum?