The series consists of three webinars. The live session dates are detailed below.

Session 1: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 4pm–5pm

This webinar will explore ‘Understanding the World’ and its relationship to history education, understanding the child and their community, and making sense of chronology and progression in EYFS.

Session 2: Effective pedagogy for EYFS

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 4pm–5pm

This webinar will look at effective use of picture books to develop children’s historical vocabulary and their understanding of the past, and will explore thematic approaches for teaching ‘past and present'.

Session 3: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 4pm–5pm

This webinar will support you to ensure well-planned transition to Key Stage 1, and will give advice on planning for mixed-age Reception/Year 1 classes. It will reflect on developing a coherent history curriculum across all phases in your school.

The course is for anyone who teaches at Early Years Foundation Stage, as well as primary teachers and history subject leaders.

This webinar series will enable you to: 

• - understand effective approaches for teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
• - understand how to plan for effective phase transition from EYFS to Key Stage 1
• - understand how to integrate EYFS within your whole school curriculum for history

The webinars will be led by Helen Crawford and Sue Temple.

Helen Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Northampton and current chair of the Historical Association’s primary committee. Before moving into Initial Teacher Education, Helen was an Early Years teacher, class teacher and senior leader in a range of school settings.

Sue Temple is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cumbria, regular contributor to Primary History and an HA Quality Mark Assessor. Sue had a variety of roles before moving into Initial Teacher Education, including Early Years and Primary teacher, Nursery Headteacher and SEND teacher in a Pupil Referral Unit. 

All prices are listed inclusive of VAT. Any webinar booked individually on Cademy will incur an additional fee.

To access the member price please provide your membership number when prompted. You must have a valid membership at the time of booking and attending. All webinars in this series are eligible for the corporate member free recording offer.

The webinars will take place online over Zoom. While we strongly recommend participating live, if you are unable to attend for any reason a recording link will be made available. This will be emailed to all registered participants to access for a limited period.

To book for multiple webinars or request an invoice, please complete the form below.

If you have missed a session, a recording can be accessed using the form. You will be emailed an invoice for the cost of the recording(s) and a time-limited link to access the webinar recording on Zoom.