Planning
Planning is affected by so many other issues and requires careful thought and consideration. When considering planning for any topic perhaps the first question should be to question your rationale for teaching this topic and how it relates to wider issues such as diversity, learning outside the classroom, and whether to teach history discreetly or as a part of meaningfully linked cross-curricular approach. In this section, you will find articles, guides and resources that will support you to develop your planning.
Developing enquiries
- Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together
- The Elizabeth cake
- Teaching crime and punishment as a post-1066 theme
- Having fun through time
- The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
- Overground, underground and across the sea
Whole School
- Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’
- Primary history and British values
- Ideas for Assemblies: Anniversaries
- Whole-school planning for progression
- Ideas for Assemblies - Remembrance
- From Home to the Front: World War I
Inclusion
- Education White Paper and SEND Review 2022
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Eweka's story: Benin and Big Picture History
- Slavery in Britain
- The world on the wall: exploring diversity on Hadrian's Wall
- Teaching diversity through drama
Local history
- Teaching local history in primary schools: learning about effective practice
- Teaching black British history through local archives
- World War II: breathing life into a local history enquiry
- Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry
- Migration to Britain through time
- How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?
Outside the classroom
- How museum collections make ancient Egypt, and the people who lived there, real
- One of my favourite history places: Studland Village
- Emerging historians in the outdoors
- One of my favourite history places: Fulham Palace
- ‘Not again!’ - an additional viewpoint on using railways
- Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset