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  • Learning styles and Cache (Cognitive Acceleration in History Education): Children as thinkers

      Article
    The teaching of gifted children reflects our beliefs about how they learn and mentally develop. Such learning theories are both explicit and tacit. One such theory – Cognitive Acceleration in History Education [CACHE] – underpins Case Studies 1 & 2 – the Mr Men Mystery, pages 17-21, and The Body...
    Learning styles and Cache (Cognitive Acceleration in History Education): Children as thinkers

  • Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Our school has no uniform. You can’t predict what most children or teachers will wear from one day to the next. So the children were rather surprised one day in July 1996 when most of...
    Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

  • Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

      Primary History article
    Introduction – slavery, abolition and emancipation 25 March 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. It is not compulsory to teach about the slave trade. However, the links to the National Curriculum – particularly in history, citizenship and geography – are clear. The...
    Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

  • ‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts

      Teaching History article
    As history teachers we are used to encouraging pupils to think; enabling them to express thoughts with clarity both verbally and in written form. Yet, if history as a school subject becomes purely cognitive, then something is missing. History deals with human behaviour and therefore the affective and the emotional...
    ‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts

  • Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

      Article
    The Field of the Cloth of Gold is traditionally regarded as the province of A-level history study. However, this wonderful story (and the insights it can offer into: the lives of the rich and poor, the nature of the kings of both England and France, the ways in which alliances...
    Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

  • Primary History 46: Editorial: History, Citizenship and the Curriculum - A Fit Purpose

      Primary History article
    Read Primary History 46 In AD 62 an earthquake devastated the town of Pompeii. In AD 1976 Jim Callaghan in his Ruskin speech set off a seismic shock that shook education to its foundations. Almost two decades after the 62 AD Pompeii earthquake’s warning signs the volcanic explosion of Vesuvius...
    Primary History 46: Editorial: History, Citizenship and the Curriculum - A Fit Purpose

  • 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

  • Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

      Article
    The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth funded me to carry out an Action Research project with a focus upon personalised learning. This NAGTY Developing Expertise Award empowered four Year 5 girls to investigate the history of their local town. The pupils attended a school in a small market...
    Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

  • '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

  • Case Study: Gifted Pupils design new children's museum galleries

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this article I will describe a G&T museum-based project which we have just trialled with three primary schools in the Ashton Bedminster primary school cluster in Bristol. It was a joint initiative between Bristol’s...
    Case Study: Gifted Pupils design new children's museum galleries

  • Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

      Historian article
    Much research has been devoted in recent years to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (EH), completed in 731 at the joint monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; but in one crucial respect little progress has been made: the editing of the text. The excellent edition published by Charles Plummer in 1896...
    Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

  • In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children

      Primary History article
    [Editorial note: Sir Cyril Taylor provides an overview of the challenge for the maintained sector that the education of Gifted and Talented pupils presents. In relation to the primary phase reliable data is not available: but there is no evidence that G&T provision is any better for 3-11 year olds...
    In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children

  • In my view: We must support gifted historians from an early age

      Primary History article
    A successful schools system must have the capacity to harness the potential of all pupils. This means tailoring teaching so that every pupil makes strong, steady progress throughout their school lives. While we all agree that learners who are struggling need effective teaching and support, I am passionate that gifted...
    In my view: We must support gifted historians from an early age

  • The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Toby Green of King's College London examines the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Benin.
    The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

  • The Vikings in Britain

      Historian Article
    Professor Henry Loyn provides an update on recent studies of the Viking Age. Interest in the activities of the Scandinavian people in Britain during the Viking Age, c 800-1100 A.D., has been strong in the last half-century or so, and it is good to pause and assess contributions to the...
    The Vikings in Britain

  • History, citizenship and controversy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Y4 question their MP about nuclear waste policy; Y6 survey people in their community and school about a proposed casino in their town, and feed back the information to the local council; children decide to...
    History, citizenship and controversy

  • Citizenship: The Romans in Britain study unit

      Article
    The english government has identified History in the national curriculum as one of the main vehicles for citizenship education. However, even if various issues in History exemplify citizenship concepts, learning about them during history lessons will not be sufficient to make the learning ‘citizenship education’. We have to move on...
    Citizenship: The Romans in Britain study unit

  • Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Story is the crucial factor in children’s awareness of past times in their ‘mythic’ phase of mental development, see page 4. Everyone loves a story, stories ‘open out fresh fields, the illimitable beckoning of horizons to imagination…...
    Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds

  • History in the Early Years: Bringing the Romans to life

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Children arrive at school or nursery with their personal, unique mental ‘models’ of the world. the challenge for us is to expand these so that increasingly the pupils will be able rationally to make sense of the...
    History in the Early Years: Bringing the Romans to life

  • Queen Victoria as a Politician

      Article
    Even had Queen Victoria not presided over the achievements of the age which bears her name, her career would still hold a fascination for the historian. She was, for one thing, the solitary woman in a male political world. She was possessed of a personality at once perceptive and simple,...
    Queen Victoria as a Politician

  • Music in the History Curriculum

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. In a primary school in Devon, there is a teacher who sings to his class every day: traditional songs; love songs; lyrical ballads; sea shanties; tales of mystery and suspense; songs of ritual and ceremony, hunting songs,...
    Music in the History Curriculum

  • Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges & Opportunities

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated The last edition of Primary History published the first part of the report on the KS2 to KS3 transitions project. Part 1 illuminated the first four of produced eight key ideas or guiding principles for...
    Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges & Opportunities

  • Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. History education needs to be placed in a wider pattern of curriculum development. Part I of this paper looks at general issues linking History with citizenship education and the early years. Part 2...
    Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

  • Think Bubble - Print the Legend

      Article
    Anyone who has pretensions to being a film buff learns pretty early on the immortal lines of the jaundiced newspaperman from John Ford's 1962 movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance that when it comes to choosing between the truth and the legend……..I was reminded of this recently whilst preparing...
    Think Bubble - Print the Legend

  • Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Studying famous people at Key Stage One has obviously been an issue for many years and no matter how long you have been teaching the name Florence Nightingale seems to appear as the only famous...
    Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One