CPD
As your subject association, the HA is here to support you through the provision of quality history CPD to suit a range of needs and budgets. Whether you are a subject leader for history looking at whole school development needs, or a classroom teacher or educator looking for support to help you teach history effectively, you will find an event or course to suit you and your needs. In this section, you can find our current courses and CPD series listed in What’s On, with more detail about each individual event in Available events. You'll also find past event resources and CPD guides and briefings as well as information and resources from our Teacher Fellowships. Read more
What's On
- Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2024
- Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
- Webinar series: Diversity in local history
- Primary virtual regional teachmeets
- Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
- Webinar series: The Olympic Games
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2024
- HA Webinar: Henry VIII on Tour: finding a new perspective on the Tudors
- HA Webinar: Making the most of your primary membership
- Virtual primary history teachmeet
- Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
- Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
On-demand CPD
- Webinar series: Diversity in local history
- Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
- Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Free for members
- Webinar series: The Olympic Games
- Virtual Branch: Shylock's Venice
- Virtual Branch: From Pirates to Princes Normans in Eleventh Century Europe
- Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history
- Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley
- John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)
Teacher Fellowships
- Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Briefing Packs
- Scheme of Work: Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scots settlement in Britain
- The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
- Summary of Key Changes to Primary Curriculum for 2014
- Progression without Levels
- Curriculum Mapping at Key Stage 2
- Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
CPD Guides
- Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
- Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work
- Survive and Thrive as a Primary History Trainee and NQT
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- Assessment in Primary History - Guidance