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  • 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

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 94

      One aspect of teaching Benin that can never be ignored – the incredible bronzes
    Posters 1 and 2: The incredible Benin bronzes
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 94

  • Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

      Primary History feature
    The back cover image is a reconstruction of prehistoric life based on the English Heritage site Windmill Hill. Such images are of great value to the teacher in bringing the distant past to life, and in deepening pupil understanding of its historical significance. Using these sorts of illustrations can help...
    Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

  • Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement

      Primary History article
    Karin Doull looks at how previous civilisations were affected by natural climate change, often precipitated by volcanic eruptions. She suggests that any investigation into ancient civilisations should consider how physical geography contributed to the initial settlement and development. She argues that we should also look at what might have contributed to...
    Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 93

      Coronations
    Poster 1: What continuities and change can you see in coronations from the distant to recent past? Poster 2: Some objects used or presented at a coronation
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 93

  • Exploring the Great Fire of London and Deaf history

      Primary History article
    Kate Loveman and James Harrod offer new insights into the Great Fire of London by focussing on the inclusion of Deaf history in this popular topic. They shares the online teaching resources created in their joint partnership between the University of Leicester and the Museum of London. Each year thousands...
    Exploring the Great Fire of London and Deaf history

  • Teaching diversity through drama

      Article
    Teaching diversity through drama at the Museum of London: Stories of London people From Roman times to the present, London has been shaped by the diversity of its people. London is home to500 different nationalities, 300 different languages,14 major faiths and a host of other religions. The Museum of London...
    Teaching diversity through drama

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 92

      The Gunpowder Plot; Epitaph
    The Gunpowder Plot Epitaph
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 92

  • History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles Towards the end of the Bronze Age, the climate across Europe began to warm. This...
    History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 90

      Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II; Queen and Commonwealth
    Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II Queen and Commonwealth
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 90

  • One of my favourite history places: Luxor, Egypt

      Primary History feature
    History teacher in Cairo; oh, my word! Living in Cairo for the past four years enabled me to explore the country to a degree not possible as a visitor. Based in Maadi to the south of the old Islamic city, I live about 20 minutes’ walk from the Nile. A...
    One of my favourite history places: Luxor, Egypt

  • Dig it: Literacy, ICT, Archaeology and History

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: Pupil reading of written and printed texts is a central element in their ‘Doing History'. As such, it is one of numerous integrated pedagogic activities that combine to make up a lesson, a series...
    Dig it: Literacy, ICT, Archaeology and History

  • Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games

      Sporting Heritage scheme of work for primary history (Key Stage 2)
    This unit produced by Sporting Heritage is designed flexibly as either a chronological or a thematic study. As such, its editable core PowerPoint resources can be used as a depth or extended overview topic in relation to:   Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and the Greeks’...
    Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 89

      Vikings in 'these islands'; Ancient Greece
    Where did the Vikings go to in ‘these islands’? Ancient Greece – Did you know…?
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 89

  • Research review series: History – July 2021

      Primary History article
    In this summary, Tim Lomas identifies key points presented in the history research review. Includes work of Ofsted Research and Evaluation Team.  1. More schools now seem to have adequate time for history. In primary, 1–2 hours a fortnight and in secondary, 2–4 hours. Provisional entries for 2021’s history GCSE...
    Research review series: History – July 2021

  • Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

      Primary History article
    Creative curricular planning With the National Curriculum under review, it seems that more schools are taking a creative approach to planning by delivering the curriculum through a focused theme or topic. This has allowed schools to take more ownership of the curriculum and has helped teachers become more innovative in their...
    Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

  • Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?

      Primary History article
    No teacher ever wants to claim that their history curriculum is incoherent. All schools want to have a curriculum that is logically ordered and consistent, that has clarity and that holds together. It is easy to assume that how we see this coherence as adults must also translate to the...
    Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?

  • History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

      HA Update
    What’s been happening in primary history lately? Invited to write an update on this, I decided to identify some themes that might be helpful to secondary teachers.  As a senior lecturer in primary education with responsibility for history and as a member of the HA Primary Committee, I was able...
    History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

  • An integrated literacy and history unit of work

      Primary History article
    The passing of Harry Patch - the last World War I veteran - in the summer of 2009 is a fitting starting point for children in Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds) to begin to tackle some of the issues of the First World War. Many classes already study the Second...
    An integrated literacy and history unit of work

  • ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context

      Primary History article
    All too often Anne Frank becomes a symbol, used to show ‘the triumph of hope over evil’, even though she was killed during the Holocaust. Sometimes she is quoted utterly out of context to provide uplifting sentiments, or short phrases with redemptive messages.  What this lesson sets out to do...
    ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context

  • Film: Write your own historical fiction

      Webinar
    Film: Write your own historical fiction

  • One of my favourite history places: Oakham Castle

      Primary History feature
    Standing by the stocks in the historic Buttercross of the market-town of Oakham, it would be easy to miss the hidden gem of Norman architecture that lies just a few metres away. Oakham Castle may be far removed from the traditional image of knights and castles, but there is something...
    One of my favourite history places: Oakham Castle

  • History through connecting classrooms in Bradford and Peshawar, Pakistan

      Primary History article
    Editorial note: In this inspiring, teacher-led, crossphase project, pupils and teachers from eight schools in Bradford and Peshawar shared and learned about the histories of Bradford and Pakistan. The British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Scheme funded the project. The article below focuses on the primary dimension. In 2008 three representatives from Bradford...
    History through connecting classrooms in Bradford and Peshawar, Pakistan

  • One of my favourite history places: Eyam

      Primary History feature
    Imagine……… walking down the street and crossing the road to avoid having to talk to a friend……. declining a friend’s invitation to enter her house…... feeling angry and trapped that you cannot travel away from your home….  Are such feelings familiar to you during the coronavirus crisis?  Maybe they are – but I am...
    One of my favourite history places: Eyam

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 87

      Could you manage old money? and Examples of picture books
    ‘Twelve pennies make a shilling; twenty shillings make a pound’ - Could you manage old money? Examples of picture books
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 87