Available Events

In this section you'll find details of all our available CPD events for primary teachers, both online and in-person. Where these events are linked to a series, this will be linked on the page for your information.To see our regular courses and our overarching series and themes for this term, you can take a look at our What’s on section, view our at-a-glance primary CPD calendar, or all upcoming CPD events in our web calendar. 

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  • Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2025

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    We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of face to face, online learning...

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  • HA Webinar: How can we prepare all pupils to achieve well in primary history?

    15th July 2025

    This session will focus on ways in which teachers can ensure pupils achieve and progress well in primary history, so they are prepared for the next stage of their education. This will also include ways to assess pupil progress to enable all groups of pupils to achieve strongly in history.  

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  • HA Webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

    7th July 2025

    Between 1917 and 1947, women in the Indian subcontinent were engaged in active debates and noteworthy demonstrations for the vote, building up a national suffrage movement. In this talk Professor Sumita Mukherjee will discuss the activities of Indian suffragettes in this period, showing how they were connected with British and...

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  • HA Webinar: How can we use professional development to effectively deliver primary history?

    7th July 2025

    This session will look at ways teachers can be supported to build their confidence, expertise and subject knowledge in primary history. It will also explore how subject leaders can develop their own expertise in leading history, including ideas for extending their professional development beyond their own school.  

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  • HA Webinar: How can we ensure we have an ambitious and well-structured primary history curriculum?

    1st July 2025

    This session will explore ways to enable pupils to develop secure, deep and fluent knowledge across the curriculum in primary history. It will consider how a curriculum can be designed, including the foundations laid at EYFS, to ensure pupils have a coherent and planned pathway to enable them to engage...

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  • HA Webinar: Making the most of your primary membership

    30th June 2025

    In this webinar we will guide you through some essential benefits available through your HA primary membership - from key online resources and journal support through to available CPD and accreditation routes. We also look at how you can get involved with the activities and competitions run by the association...

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  • HA Webinar: What is the new inspection toolkit and how does history contribute to it?

    23rd June 2025

    This session will give an overview of the main areas of the school inspection toolkit, and how history could contribute to ensuring the school receives a positive outcome. The session will explore the main areas of the toolkit, how grades are given, and the potential role history subject leaders have...

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  • HA Webinar: An introduction to the HA Quality Mark

    20th May 2025

    This informal webinar will provide an introduction to the Historical Association Quality Mark including the process, the framework and assessment and a chance to ask questions about the programme.

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  • HA Webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

    28th April 2025

    This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...

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  • HA Webinar: Developing visual literacy in the primary history classroom

    2nd April 2025

    This practical webinar will explore the way images and film can be used in primary history, whether these are of original source material (such as artefacts) or historical interpretations created after a period to illustrate it for later generations. It will consider ways of helping pupils to analyse these historical...

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  • Primary history and geography forum: climate education

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    Thursday 9 July, 4.15pm–6pm  Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window/tab. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) About the event Join the Historical Association and the Royal Geographical Society at this special online twilight forum event specifically for primary teachers of...

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  • Webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits: implications for primary history

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    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will investigate the implications of the new draft Ofsted inspection toolkit on primary history to help subject leaders feel confident to prepare and support teachers in obtaining a positive outcome for the school’s report card. After an overview session on the...

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  • Course: Assessment and progression in primary history

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    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Available dates Summer term: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 9.30am–3.30pm (online) What does the course cover? This practical course will help primary teachers to understand the purpose of assessment...

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  • Short course: Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict

    6th January 2025

    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the course terms and conditions before registering) What does the course cover? 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has...

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  • Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons

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    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Available dates Summer term: Friday 27 June 2025, 9.30am–2pm (online) What does the course cover? Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding...

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  • Recorded Webinar: Peopling London, 47AD–1960

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    This webinar explores themes around the causes of migration over time and look at practical outcomes in the classroom. It focuses on migration over time in London from the Saxons to the Windrush, through sources and stories, though the themes and ideas used are relevant to schools beyond London. Topics...

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  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

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    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...

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  • Recorded webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Government

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    Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 This webinar was recorded as part of our webinar series exploring the teaching of substantive concepts in primary history. The National Curriculum for history requires pupils to gain understanding about abstract concepts of substantive...

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  • Webinar recording: Virtual History Forum: Reigning over change

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    These three recordings are taken from the Virtual History Forum which took place in March 2022 and focused on change over the last 70 years.  2022 marked the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. This is an unprecedented occasion in our history. The last 70 years have seen both continuities and...

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  • Recorded webinar: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history

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    This webinar was presented by Richard Rieser, who is a campaigner and champion for disability rights and the coordinator of UK Disability History Month. His presentation is part of our ongoing work to explore disability history and the arguments and representations of it and ensure that people from disability groups...

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