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  • A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians literally threw away? This material can cost nothing or be...
    A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

  • The Battle of Britain

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. David Field gives a descriptive account of a History Club's project on the Battle of Britain.
    The Battle of Britain

  • Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story. In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
    Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

  • Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Science Museum in South Kensington, London is accessible through its website as well as through visiting the building itself and this article considers how history teachers can gain from using the collection and resources...
    Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

  • History co-ordinators' dilemmas: teaching the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

      Article
    Dr Tim Lomas offers advice on topics, such as the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
    History co-ordinators' dilemmas: teaching the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

  • Twist in the tales

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Any academic who is in the business of writing will appreciate the pressure put on them by publishers desirous of a market product. Books for teachers need to be at once scholarly and popular, practicable and theoretical, readable but not reductionist. This...
    Twist in the tales

  • History in the Foundation Stage

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In September 2000, the introduction of a foundation stage for children aged three to the end of the reception year was widely welcomed for the way in which it confirmed a distinct identity for the early years in education. The recent guidance...
    History in the Foundation Stage

  • Teaching The Indus Valley Civilisation in the 21st Century

      Primary History article
    This article discusses how mathematical concepts, literacy requirements and other areas of the curriculum can be harnessed to promote meaningful historical enquiry and understanding. This is especially so for a history topic which lends itself to enquiry based learning, scrutiny of every little clue, and speculation about the very many...
    Teaching The Indus Valley Civilisation in the 21st Century

  • History book for the literacy hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'A Street Through Time, A 12,000 year journey along the same street', illustrated by Steve Noon and written by Dr Anne Millard, and comments on how the book can be used at Key Stage 1.
    History book for the literacy hour

  • Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The 2,500 museums in the United Kingdom are a resource for public learning of exceptional educational, social, economic and spiritual value - a common wealth. This wealth is held in trust by museums for the...
    Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

  • In the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Beamish - a unique educational experience

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What kind of experience will be remembered by the children in your class in 20 or 30 years’ time? A trip to Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, would be a likely candidate....
    In the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Beamish - a unique educational experience

  • Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge range of moving image material that provides, or purports to provide, direct documentary coverage of many historical events over the last 105 years. You can access much that is suitable for primary children from television and the video...
    Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

  • Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In essence, history is a record of human affairs. The problem in making this record is that events are past and gone and have to be reconstructed. Evidence may be uncertain and incomplete. Inevitably, several...
    Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Hollywood vs. Homer

      Primary History article
    You don't need a degree in film studies or Classics to enjoy the Hollywood blockbuster: Troy. Or to enjoy Brad Pitt, for that matter! But the question my teacher friend asked me, after two hours and forty minutes of being with Brad in a warm, dark place, was a great...
    Hollywood vs. Homer

  • Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Following the publication of the QCA guide ‘Citizenship and PSHE at KS1 & 2’ (QCA:2000) which identified history as being a suitable vehicle for the teaching of the non-statutory citizenship framework in primary schools, and...
    Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

  • Planning a Victorian School Day

      Primary History article
    Learning is more engaging and better retained when it is contextualised and when it appeals to a variety of learning styles. How better to bring history alive, than by having it invade children's school environment and transform their everyday experience? Getting away from predominantly auditory learning, the printed word and...
    Planning a Victorian School Day

  • Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

      Primary History article
    We all agree that oral history is a particularly powerful and attractive method for children to gather evidence and appreciate the real life relevance of history. From the Early Years to Year 6, many of us look deliberately for the opportunities to bring a visitor into the classroom, who will...
    Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

  • Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content, references and links are outdated. Tim Lomas describes a variety of learning activities that primary schools children enjoy.
    Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History

  • Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece

      Primary History Article
    Karin Doull offers advice on raising the achievements of higher attaining pupils. Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and reference the old QCA, but offers some useful activities on Ancient Greece. 
    Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and written sources

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pat Hoodless answers questions about history and written sources.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and written sources

  • 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

  • Using museums and artefacts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Over several years of reporting on primary history, the use of museums and artefacts has been identified in Ofsted reports as an issue for schools to address. Although there is now far greater expertise in...
    Using museums and artefacts

  • Helping students make sense of historical time

      Primary History article
    This article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Once upon a time, educators believed that there was a property of children’s minds known as ‘understanding of time’. According to this belief, young children had little ability to understand when things happened, even within their own...
    Helping students make sense of historical time

  • 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