Did we really need a new Attainment Target?

Yes. The first one, developed in 1995, was a best effort to craft the old 1991 ‘statements of attainment' into holistic, ‘best fit' Level Descriptions. Since then, the history education community has learned a lot and some of the goals for pupils' historical learning have broadened. It was also high time that there was some attempt to respond to understandings gleaned from research-based models of progression...