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  • Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary

      Annual Conference Film
    Do you sometimes heave a cynical sigh when you hear that it's 175 years since the invention of, say, the paperclip, and that a wealth of exhibitions, books and TV programmes are planned to celebrate the fact?  Well, anniversaries can be a powerful hook to get people interested in the...
    Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary
  • Local Authority Housing

      Classic Pamphlet
    Local authority housing has been a distinctive feature of the British housing system throughout the twentieth century. This pamphlet outlines the development of local authority housing in Britain from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day, focusing on the ways in which policy changes have affected...
    Local Authority Housing
  • 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
  • Churches as a local historical source

      Primary History Article
    At Key Stage 1 children should learn about significant events, (e.g. the Great Fire of London) and about people and places in their locality. At Key Stage 2 they should learn about British settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots (e.g. Anglo-Saxon art and culture) and do a local history study (e.g....
    Churches as a local historical source
  • Stone Age to Iron Age - overview and depth

      Primary History article
    Stone Age to Iron Age covers around 10,000 years, between the last Ice Age and the coming of the Romans. Such a long period is difficult for children to imagine, but putting the children into a living time-line across the classroom might help. In one sense not a lot happens...
    Stone Age to Iron Age - overview and depth
  • The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history

      Primary History article
    Co-ordinator's dilemma: I have seen the new requirements and know that I have a bit of time before things start, but I don't want to leave everything to the last minute. Without feeling that I have to get everything done now, are there some things I can be getting on...
    The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history
  • Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was originally written in early 2014 for schools needing to prepare schemes of work for the new National Curriculum coming into effect that September.   The implementation from September 2014 of the new national curriculum programme of study for history gives you a time-scale for reviewing, refreshing and resourcing your new scheme...
    Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history
  • The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum

      Primary History article
    At this stage children should listen to stories, ask how and why; use the past, present and future tense; talk about the past and present in their own lives and the lives of family members; recognise similarities and differences between families and traditions, objects and materials; and role play and...
    The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
  • 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
  • The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted

      Article
    IntroductionWith the publication on 11 September 2013 of the final version of the revised National Curriculum for September 2014, subject leaders and classroom teachers could start to consider the implications of the proposed changes. For history at Key Stages 1 and 2, some parts of the programmes of study are...
    The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted
  • Podcast Series: An Introduction to Magna Carta

      An Introduction to Magna Carta
    What precedents were there to Magna Carta? Why was the charter originally drawn up and signed in 1215? Why was it reissued during the thirteenth century? Would “ordinary” people have been aware of Magna Carta? How effective was Magna Carta as means to controlling medieval kings?  Why was it resurrected...
    Podcast Series: An Introduction to Magna Carta
  • Prehistoric Scotland

      Classic Pamphlet
    Prehistory is an attempt to reconstruct the story of human societies inhabiting a given region before the full historical record opens there. Its data, furnished by archaeology, are the constructions members of such societies erected and the durable objects they made. The events which should form its subject matter naturally...
    Prehistoric Scotland
  • Progression without Levels

      Briefing Pack
    "As part of our reforms to the national curriculum , the current system of ‘levels' used to report children's attainment and progress will be removed.  It will not be replaced." (DfE 2013) When National Curriculum levels were removed in 2014, it was all too easy to fall into the trap of...
    Progression without Levels
  • Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

      Primary History article
    Since the early days of the National Curriculum, considerable progress has been made to introduce children to an inclusive view of history. The research of the late Hilary Claire (1996) served as a major impetus and now primary teachers strive to ensure that no groups or individuals are marginalised, particularly...
    Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum
  • 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
  • Diversity, ethnicity and the Victorians

      Primary History article
    Editorial note: Alison raises crucial issues about pupils developing a sense of identity in a multi-racial environment through the medium of history. History provides a sense of belonging to all pupils if we acknowledge the rich origins of modern society's multiethnic routes - by origin, we are all immigrants. The...
    Diversity, ethnicity and the Victorians
  • V&A Schools SEN Programme

      Article
    The V&A Learning Department aims to make the Museum's collections accessible to all through an engaging and diverse range of events, courses, workshops, trails and resources. The Schools programme supports Primary and Secondary students and teachers and includes sessions for students with special educational needs. The SEN sessions have a...
    V&A Schools SEN Programme
  • World War II evacuees and Kindertransport

      Primary History Article
    Editorial Note: The impact of war on children's lives and witness testimony is a powerful way to motivate history learning through engaging children with the recent past. The process of developing this unit provides a wonderful example of reflective curriculum development, and a teaching and learning journey. When I first taught...
    World War II evacuees and Kindertransport
  • Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

      Article
    Working in a small rural primary school in North Gloucestershire I was inspired by national news reports from Iraq to change the focus of our Ancient History study from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the rivers'. A study of this region of the Middle East fulfilled so many...
    Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads
  • Alan Turing

      Article
    The man who helped win the war, invented computing and inspired artificial intelligence research Editorial note: Alan Turing was a major figure in the cracking of the Germans' Enigma code at Bletchley Park which could well have helped shortened World War II by a couple of years. The more general...
    Alan Turing
  • Teaching and learning about Grace O'Malley as a significant woman at Key Stage 1

      Article
    "Why are you so angry Grace?" Teaching and learning about Grace O'Malley as a significant woman at Key Stage 1 Grace O'Malley was an Irish queen in the Tudor period and her story provides insights about life in Ireland at the time of the Elizabethan conquests. Grace, also known as...
    Teaching and learning about Grace O'Malley as a significant woman at Key Stage 1
  • The world on the wall: exploring diversity on Hadrian's Wall

      Article
    Built in AD 122 by the order of the Emperor Hadrian, the 73 mile (80 Roman miles) long frontier goes from Bownesson-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend on the River Tyne. Since 1987, the area has been inscribed as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Site....
    The world on the wall: exploring diversity on Hadrian's Wall
  • Slavery in Britain

      Primary History article
    Images reflect the social customs and attitudes of the society in which they are produced, and we may nowdisapprove of these attitudes. Conversely, our own ideas of what is right and wrong may well have been unacceptable in the past. Among these are the rights accorded to children, the disabled,...
    Slavery in Britain
  • Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?

      Article
    Introduction - the role of history It is an interesting question as to whether history teaching has developed a greater understanding of inclusion and diversity since the start of the National Curriculum. The first version of the National Curriculum required teachers to consider a balance of political, economic, social and...
    Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?
  • Diversity and the History Curriculum

      Article
    It's very dangerous if you make it seem like history is the province of a certain segment of society. History should belong to and include all of us. The curriculum needs to appeal to as many children as possible or a number of them could become disenchanted with education because they...
    Diversity and the History Curriculum