All schemes of work are free to HA Members, along with a host of other resources and benefits. If you are not yet an HA Member, you can get a taster of our schemes of work through our new open-access curriculum plans on Ancient Greece and Stone Age to Iron Age, and our other open-access units on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, Age of Revolutions, and EYFS. See also Steve Mastin's short film What is a curriculum?, outlining the HA's approach to curriculum plans and what to look for in a good scheme of work.

 
Many commercial schemes of work cost schools hundreds of pounds to buy into. At the HA, through an enquiry-led approach, we have put our expertise into the thinking behind an enquiry, leaving teachers room to create and mould their own classroom resources to deliver the mapped-out sequence to suit their pupils' needs. After all, you know your pupils best! To reflect this approach to supporting your curriculum delivery, you’ll find that our schemes of work are priced extremely competitively and with HA Primary Membership you’ll be able to access all the schemes for free, as well as a host of expertise you need to support your subject knowledge and resourcing to teach the scheme well.

* an asterisk denotes a resourced scheme of work; all others contain resource suggestions.

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EYFS

EYFS Scheme of Work

Toys & games (Medium term plan)

Key Stage 1

The Great Fire of London

Local history†

Local history: our high street

Local history: the school and its community

Significant individuals: Brunel

Significant individuals: Explorers (Ibn Battuta)

Significant individuals: Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Significant individuals: Walter Tull

Significant individuals: George Stephenson *

Should we call Grace O'Malley a pirate? *

Remembrance

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Key Stage 2

Ancient Greece *

Ancient Egyptian religion

Ancient Egyptian civilisation

Ancient Sumer

Comparing Ancient Civilisations

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings & Scots settlement in Britain

Benin *

Chronological unit: Books through time

Chronological unit: Numbers through time

The Elizabethans *

The Georgians

Journeys: Migration to Britain

Indus Valley *

Early Islam, including Baghdad *

Local history: Transport

Local history†

The Maya

Roman Britain

Shang Dynasty

Stone Age to Iron Age in Britain *

Thematic study: Education

The Blitz & World War II *

Waterloo & the Age of Revolutions *

Queen Elizabeth II

 
† Local history: this unit is not itself a scheme of work, but shows how local history might be incorporated into a scheme of work 
 

Please note: The majority of these schemes of work were produced between 2014-2019 by members of the HA primary committee and its affiliates. While the units all contain resource suggestions, only those marked with an asterisk* are fully-resourced schemes of work. All the schemes of work are designed to support your planning and should be moulded and adapted to fit the context and needs of your own school. To view a sample scheme of work, please refer to our Anglo-Saxons unit, and our new-look curriculum plans on Ancient Greece and Stone Age to Iron Age.  

We regularly check the hyperlinks included in the schemes but unfortunately every now and again some links may go out of date. If you spot a broken link, please let us know on enquiries@history.org.uk.

See also our Guide to Progression in History from EYFS to KS3

All schemes of work are free to HA Members