Effective coordinator
The effective subject leader can make a huge difference to the quality of history in a school. It can be a rewarding but challenging role leading on issues such as motivating schemes of work and lesson plans, good enquiries, subject monitoring and evaluation, progression, obtaining and using a range of resources, assessment, linking with other subject areas and planning ways to develop the subject further.This section will help you get to grips with what it means to be an effective subject coordinator.
Role
- Subject leaders: supporting colleagues to develop their subject knowledge
- Ancient Sumer
- From Home to the Front: World War I
- Using cemeteries as a local history resource
- Early Islamic civilisation
- Assessment and Progression without levels
Whole School
- How a history club can work for you and your pupils
- Raising the profile of history in your school
- Ideas for Assemblies: The life stories of refugees - Judith Kerr
- Ideas for Assemblies: Empowering pupils to understand the First World War
- Primary history and British values
- Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme
Dilemmas
- What confuses primary children in history...
- Using cemeteries as a local history resource
- Ancient Sumer
- From Home to the Front: World War I
- Early Islamic civilisation
- Assessment and Progression without levels
Ofsted
- Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?
- Ofsted: primary guidance 2019
- Film: The new Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF) 2019
- From Home to the Front: World War I
- Early Islamic civilisation
- Assessment and Progression without levels
Enquiries
- Our Iron Age challenge
- So was everyone an ancient Egyptian?
- Resourcing primary history: How to avoid going for any old thing
- From Home to the Front: World War I
- Early Islamic civilisation
- Assessment and Progression without levels
Inclusion
- Recorded webinar: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history
- Primary History Summer Resource 2019: Diversity
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Slavery in Britain
- Diversity and the History Curriculum
- Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History
Case Studies
- Keeping children motivated in primary history while ensuring they can recall what they have been taught
- Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’
- Celebrating Success: Quality Mark
- Mid-Ulster Your Place and Mine (Bursary Project)
- Primary Oustanding Providers
- Primary Outstanding History Providers