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 Spring 2025
- Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
- Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2025
- Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
- Webinar series: Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
- On-demand webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Spring 2025
- HA Webinar: Developing visual literacy in the primary history classroom
- HA Webinar: Developing formative and extended writing in primary history
- HA Webinar: Sickness, death and the 19th-century British Post Office
- HA Webinar: Making the most of your primary membership
- HA Webinar: Helping pupils articulate their understanding of history through speaking and listening
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
- Film: Making the most of your primary membership
- Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson
- Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
- New Perspectives on the First Crusade: on-demand short course
- The Jews of Medieval England: on-demand short course
- Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?
‘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
- Case Study: Creative chronological thinking
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