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  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.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

  • Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges

      Article
    Primary history seems to be a curious mixture of the successful and successful.    On the one hand most children seem to love it and many teachers claim to enjoy teaching it.    There is certainly no shortage of good practice in many schools and exciting and stimulating resources are plentiful.  On...
    Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges

  • Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

      Teaching History article
    Jennifer Evans and Gemma Pate, history teachers in two Essex schools, had noticed that sometimes a writing frame did the opposite of what was intended. Sometimes a card sort fostered rich discussion and ownership; sometimes it led the students down a reductive rather than mind-opening path. Sometimes modelling of paragraphs...
    Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

  • Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Historical enquiry requires reasoning. Even historical imagination depends on being able to evaluate a number of possible responses to an hypothesis and mastery of detail and argument. The high levels of thinking in history of...
    Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian

  • A classroom museum

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Museums are memory boxes. They contain artefacts that tell stories about people in the past. The creation of a class museum is a simple and effective way of bringing the past to life through investigation,...
    A classroom museum

  • Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Working on written sources is fundamental to historical learning. A document, inscription or sign brings children directly into contact with the past in much the same way as an artefact. It is real and conveys...
    Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

  • 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?

  • ‘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

  • 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