CPD
As your subject association, the HA is here to support you through the provision of quality history CPD to suit a range of needs and budgets. Whether you are a subject leader for history looking at whole school development needs, or a classroom teacher or educator looking for support to help you teach history effectively, you will find an event or course to suit you and your needs. In this section, you can find our current courses and CPD series listed in What’s On, with more detail about each individual event in Available events. You'll also find past event resources and CPD guides and briefings as well as information and resources from our Teacher Fellowships. Read more
What's On
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2024
- Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
- Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
- Webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
- Monthly primary advice drop-ins
- Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2024
- HA Webinar: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
- HA Webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America
- HA Webinar: Helping children think about change and continuity
- Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
- Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
On-demand CPD
- Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Greece
- Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Anglo-Saxons
- Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Benin
- On-demand webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
- On-demand webinar series: Diversity in local history
Free for members
- Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?
- Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers
- Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
- Virtual Branch: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society
- Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour
- Film: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)
Teacher Fellowships
- Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Briefing Packs
- Scheme of Work: Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scots settlement in Britain
- The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
- Summary of Key Changes to Primary Curriculum for 2014
- Progression without Levels
- Curriculum Mapping at Key Stage 2
- Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
CPD Guides
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work
- Survive and Thrive as a Primary History Trainee and NQT
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- Assessment in Primary History - Guidance