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Found 31 results matching 'life events queen Elizabeth 2' within Primary > Curriculum > Primary History resources > The Anglo-Saxons, Vikings & the Normans   (Clear filter)

  • Storytelling the past

      Primary History article
    This article will demonstrate how to engage children through storytelling and how it can be used to develop their critical understanding of the past. Why story? Despite their common derivation, the words ‘history’ and ‘story’ suggest very different kinds of knowledge, the former carrying overtones of detached understanding of the...
    Storytelling the past

  • 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

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

  • Case Study: Classroom archaeology. Sutton Hoo, or the mystery of the empty grave

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Would you like to go for a walk in the woods on the other side of the river? I asked my wife on a spring day in 1982. Happily she assented, and we drove off...
    Case Study: Classroom archaeology. Sutton Hoo, or the mystery of the empty grave

  • A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England

      Primary History Article
    Sri Lankan garnet in Anglo-Saxon graves?  In 2009 news broke of a fabulous hoard of gold and garnet military ornaments unearthed in a Staffordshire field. TV reports mentioned the garnet might have come from Sri Lanka or India, but how could it have got here? I began reading up what used to be called ‘The Dark...
    A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England

  • Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066

      Primary History article
    The first aim in the National Curriculum indicates that children should: Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider...
    Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066