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  • Keeping the content manageable in Key Stage 2

      Article
    This section offers guidance on how Key Stage 2 history can be organised through the use of a number of key investigative questions for the most commonly taught areas of study.
    Keeping the content manageable in Key Stage 2

  • Rhyd-y-Car cottages at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The miner’s cottage is part of a project at The Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, to preserve folk history. Since its founding in 1948, over 40 buildings, including a row of six original miners’ cottages from Rhyd-y-Car, have been dismantled and...
    Rhyd-y-Car cottages at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life

  • Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. An OFSTED advisor discusses their views on the standards of primary history.
    Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

  • Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Knowledge of the experience of women during Victorian times has developed considerably during the last thirty years. History had a privileged place within the British Women’s Liberation movement in the early 1970s and reclaiming the...
    Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

  • In My View: Whatever happened to...?

      Primary History article
    Older readers of the journal may well remember a classic film, Whatever happened to Baby Jane ? This article asks, and attempts to answer, two parallel questions: "Whatever happened to breadth and balance?" and "Whatever happened to history’s place in the primary curriculum?". The two questions (and their answers) are...
    In My View: Whatever happened to...?

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

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Hilary Claire answers questions about Citizenship and History.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

  • 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

  • How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Primary History regularly contains articles from teachers who have taken some aspect of their locality and turned it into a really good activity. Hundreds of OFSTED reports as well, comment on really good practice in...
    How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

  • A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a series of stories, often about ordinary people and their ordinary lives, which can be built up...
    A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

  • Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Alongside modern University buildings, at Beckett Park, (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), there is evidence of a monastic grange, a seventeenth century farmhouse, and an eighteenth century mansion which was extended in Victorian Times. The Beckett Park Archaeology Project was established in...
    Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

  • 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!

  • ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. John W Robertson explains how computer databases can be used by primary school children to investigate local history.
    ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

  • Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. When Prince Albert died in 1861 Queen Victoria went into deep mourning and ceased all public duties. By 1866 she had still not made any public appearances. Wolverhampton, like many other towns, raised a subscription to commission a statue in Albert’s memory....
    Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

  • Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum. The section on using computers in particular is now outdated.  Buildings offer a fascinating insight into history. We live, work and shop in buildings of various descriptions. Some of these buildings are very new, others are very old. Frequently...
    Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • Don't forget key skills!

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. With the pressure on curriculum time in primary schools, and the need to concentrate on literacy and numeracy, many teachers have recently felt that visits outside the classroom are a luxury. The introduction of Curriculum 2000, though, puts renewed importance on learning...
    Don't forget key skills!

  • Oral history in primary schools

      Article
    Although this article focuses on a distinctive and effective historical activity it is important from the outset to recognise that involvement in oral history also has the potential to enhance learning across the ‘formal curriculum’ and beyond. Talking to older people about their lived experience and recording their memories provides...
    Oral history in primary schools

  • Some teaching and learning strategies

      Article
    The history of the community is an important aspect of history in both key stages but is rarely something that can just be taken off the shelf. Wherever possible, local history should be used to link different periods of history. The specific Key Stage 2 unit should be an investigation...
    Some teaching and learning strategies

  • Things to remember when planning history - one subject leader's list

      Article
    This section uses a practical example from one school where the subject leader produced general guidelines to schools and planning and teaching history.
    Things to remember when planning history - one subject leader's list

  • 'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
    'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

  • Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Logbooks can be described as the diary of the headmaster. The contents can vary in interest depending on how diligent the headmaster was at recording events. Some merely record the delivery of coals, the attendance at the school or the visitors to...
    Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

  • Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This paper examines the application of TEXT-BREAKER to a year 3 class being taught a history text in the Literacy hour. The context was the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain Study Unit of the National Curriculum for History (DFE, 1995). Within...
    Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

  • Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated. Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...
    Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly