Key Stage 2
The KS2 curriculum consists of both content and skills and we need to make it a coherent whole. The content consists of British and non-British units: Read more
Planning
- How to make a toy museum
- Blending history and creative writing: imagining a lost Anglo-Saxon poem
- Historical fiction: it’s all made up, isn’t it?
- Film: Picturing the past (and the future)
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
Progression & Assessment
- Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback
- It worked for me: investing in dialogue as a tool for assessment
- Assessment and feedback in history
- Tracking pupil progress
- Transition Key Stage 2 and 3
- Whole-school planning for progression
Enquiries
- Curriculum plan: Ancient Greece
- HA Enquiry Toolkit
- Teaching black British history through local archives
- Benin: exploring an African empire at Key Stage 2
- The Coronation of King Charles III
- Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games
Classroom Resources
- The Coronation of King Charles III
- Teaching about ‘these islands’ since 1066
- Scheme of work: Queen Elizabeth II
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
- Using apps in the history curriculum
- Using the back cover image: painted wooden police truncheon