Subject leaders
While history is a popular subject in primary schools, not every teacher has a qualification in the subject. The role of the subject leader is therefore crucial in developing history teaching, learning and resources across the school so as best to support teachers, motivate pupils, monitor progress and achieve consistently high standards. In this section, you will find all the tools you need to successfully lead history in your school.
Subject Leader Area
- How the Quality Mark for history can support you as a subject leader
- Working with other subject leaders
- Your first year as a history subject leader
- Helping children to communicate their ideas in primary history
- Addressing misconceptions in primary history
- Progression in primary history
Research & Guidance
- Film: Making the most of your primary membership
- Film: Making the most of your primary membership
- Research review series: History – July 2021
- History teaching and learning when you can’t have the children in the classroom
- Life in lockdown
- Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom
Enrichment
- Good practice in primary history: the Quality Mark scheme
- One of my favourite history places: Fulham Palace
- Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists
- Teaching pre-history outside the classroom
- Learning Outside the Classroom
- Teaching the First World War in the primary school
Effective coordinator
- How to incorporate EYFS as a subject leader
- Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?
- Subject leaders: The importance of subject knowledge
- Ofsted: primary guidance 2019
- Tracking pupil progress
- Help! I am a new co-ordinator: when should I do what?