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  • Scheme of work: Queen Elizabeth II

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    Prior to completing this unit of work, it would be useful for the children to have started to develop an understanding of the substantive concepts of monarchy and royalty through their prior learning. Direct links can be made between studies of specific monarchs and their roles, as well as stories...
    Scheme of work: Queen Elizabeth II

  • Racism and equality through the 1936 Berlin Olympics: the Olympics, Nationalism and Identity

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article outlines ideas for teaching history with crosscurricular links to citizenship, with a Year 6 class...
    Racism and equality through the 1936 Berlin Olympics: the Olympics, Nationalism and Identity

  • Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    In this unit, children will learn about the significance of the 2022 Platinum Jubilee. They will look at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her role as Princess Elizabeth to her coronation and through to 2022, as a great-grandmother and the longest-reigning British monarch. The unit will help children...
    Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee

  • Webinar on demand: Planning a Primary Platinum Jubilee

      Webinar: 70 suggestions for a whole school celebration
    This free member webinar offers lots of suggestions for a whole school celebration in primary schools from EYFS to Year 6. Find out about educational, engaging enquiry-based activities to enhance learning in EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 National Curriculum units, while having fun, marking 70 years of...
    Webinar on demand: Planning a Primary Platinum Jubilee

  • Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963

      Primary History article
    It is sixty years since the Bristol Bus Boycott highlighted race inequalities and discrimination in the workplace. In this article, Stuart Boydell revisits this watershed moment and considers how the Bristol Bus Boycott could be incorporated into the curriculum today. Sixty years ago, Bristol was at the centre of a...
    Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

      Lives of medieval women
    What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

  • Overground, underground and across the sea

      Article
    Communication is at the heart of what it is to be human, and the British postal service has helped to shape the modern world as we know it today. From cryptic Victorian Valentine cards to a lion encountered on Salisbury Plain, there is nothing ordinary about the story of the post! The British postal service...
    Overground, underground and across the sea

  • The Bronze Age: what was so special about copper and tin?

      Primary History article
    On first approaching this period it is possible to feel comfortable with the term ‘Bronze Age’ without ever really interrogating what this means. When did this period happen? What do we mean by the term the Bronze Age and was it different or the same around the world? Clearly there...
    The Bronze Age: what was so special about copper and tin?

  • Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?

      Transition Training Session 4
    This is the 4th of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint,...
    Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?

  • Two women linked across three thousand years of history

      Primary History article
    16 May 1976 – a warm sunny day as Zheng was to recall – began as a typical day on site and ended with a remarkable discovery. Zheng Zhenxiang was leading an archaeological team at Yinxu, Anyang in China looking for evidence of tombs from the Shang Dynasty period. This...
    Two women linked across three thousand years of history

  • Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Numbers Through Time

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    The chronological unit is new and challenging for primary schools and it is important to tackle it correctly. Whether you decide to take the option of a broad sweep of time as this unit does, or whether you decide to home in on a specific turning point (examples of these...
    Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Numbers Through Time

  • EYFS Medium Term Plan - Toys and Games

      Article
    This EYFS Medium Term Plan is based around the theme of Toys and Games. It is designed to give teachers and early years practitioners different starting points for learning about the past, across all areas of learning. The activities could be led with a whole class or as small group...
    EYFS Medium Term Plan - Toys and Games

  • Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

      Article
    Commemorating the Battle of the Somme through an assembly is not an easy task and one which needs careful thought and preparation. This battle officially started on 1 July 1916, after a week-long artillery bombardment, though both British and French commanders had prepared for the offensive for several months. To highlight...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

  • Case Study: Historical information and the local community

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The ICT revolution A paper register, a pink-lined A4 mark book and a written school log book are surely historical artefacts? The transition from paper to digital technology continues, changing the world of the classroom teacher whose working life like mine,...
    Case Study: Historical information and the local community

  • Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

      Primary history scheme of work, Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
    Children can be introduced to the idea that schools have been in the locality for some time but they have not always been the same. They can look at similarities and differences, as well as be introduced to some of the events that affected the schools. The theme allows children...
    Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

  • The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Who was King Alfred? And was he really ‘Great’?

      Primary History article
    Gaining the depth and richness of subject knowledge needed to teach different aspects of history effectively can prove challenging for busy primary school teachers. In this article Francis Leneghan presents key subject knowledge and suggested enquiry questions to inform and structure a depth study of King Alfred. The article focuses...
    Who was King Alfred? And was he really ‘Great’?

  • Scheme of work: Journeys - the story of migration to Britain

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    This unit is designed as a thematic course looking at the big picture of migration to Britain over time. There are many ways that the course can be adapted to include different content which may be more relevant for the local community around your school. Most of the content described in...
    Scheme of work: Journeys - the story of migration to Britain

  • Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Books Through Time

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    Through this unit, children can be introduced to the idea that books were extremely valuable in the past, the status symbol of the day. They will learn about how books were made in the past and that stories have been around long before there were books to put them in....
    Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Books Through Time

  • Scheme of Work: Significant Individuals at Key Stage 1: Ibn Battuta

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    The history programme of study for Key Stage 1 requires pupils to be taught about: 'The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some of whom should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods.' In this unit, children are...
    Scheme of Work: Significant Individuals at Key Stage 1: Ibn Battuta

  • Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change

      Article
    How might we integrate a focus on our relationship with the natural world through time in our existing curriculum? Why should we teach about key turning points in human history that have shaped this relationship in profound ways? What is history's role in explaining how we got to this point? ...
    Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change

  • Primary Scheme of Work: Remembrance

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    In this unit pupils will be introduced to the concept of Remembrance Day and will learn why people in this country wear poppies in November. Through learning about Remembrance, pupils will understand that there are events beyond living memory that are significant nationally and globally, and that these are commemorated...
    Primary Scheme of Work: Remembrance

  • Scheme of work: George Stephenson and the development of railways

      Primary scheme of work, Key Stage 1 (resourced)
    This unit of work is intended to teach children about George Stephenson as a significant individual in history, his achievements and the impact that he had locally, nationally and internationally. It also includes some introductory lessons based around vocabulary for consolidation of terms relating to the passing of time, which...
    Scheme of work: George Stephenson and the development of railways

  • Scheme of Work: Grace O'Malley

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (resourced)
    This unit encourages pupils to explore the past by examining their ideas about pirates, with particular reference to Grace O’Malley. The key question leads children to consider what are the characteristics of a pirate and to challenge stereotypes in the light of historical enquiry. The key question also leads to...
    Scheme of Work: Grace O'Malley

  • A Victorian Christmas

      A Victorian Xmas
    The Historical Association In Alliance With Association for Language Learning. Cross-Curricular Unit: Year 5/6 French and History. A Victorian Christmas.
    A Victorian Christmas