Planning
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 classrooms, and whether to teach history discreetly or as a part of meaningfully linked cross curricular approach. In this section, you will find articles, guides, resources that will support you to develop your planning and helping children to make progress.
General
- How diverse is your history curriculum?
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- Primary history and British values
- What your local Archive Service can offer to schools
- The importance of history vocabulary
- Ideas for Assemblies: Lest we forget
Local History
- How to make a toy museum
- Teaching local history through a family
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
- How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?
- One of my favourite history places: Bournville
- Home Front Legacy 1914-18
Chronological Understanding
- Historical fiction: it’s all made up, isn’t it?
- Elizabethan times: Just banquets and fun?
- Overground, underground and across the sea
- Making the most of the post-1066 unit
- Scheme of Work: Thematic study - Education
- How do pupils understand historical time?
Outside the classroom
- Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits
- How a history club can work for you and your pupils
- Emerging historians in the outdoors
- Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2
- One of my favourite history places: Bournville
- Home Front Legacy 1914-18
Developing enquiries
- HA Enquiry Toolkit
- How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?
- Making the most of a census
- Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset
- What confuses primary children in history...
- Studying the Maya
Cross Curricular
- 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?
- Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
- Teaching history and geography together in a meaningful way
- History supporting global learning