Dilemmas

Over the years, the journal “Primary History” has posed a number of challenges for subject leaders to address.  Many of these remain relevant in the current curriculum.  They aim to provide common sense advice that can be managed by subject leaders.  The dilemmas affect co-ordinators operating in all kinds of contexts and circumstances such as different sized schools, those with multiple responsibilities and schools where history is both prominent as well as those where the subject has not been identified as a priority.

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  • Using cemeteries as a local history resource

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    Why visit a cemetery as part of the history curriculum? Local studies now feature prominently in the primary history curriculum for both key stages. This development challenges teachers to find easilyaccessible, inexpensive and relevant resources on their doorstep. A rich resource which has traditionally been overlooked is the local churchyard...

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  • Using museums and artefacts

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Over several years of reporting on primary history, the use of museums and artefacts has been identified in Ofsted reports as an issue for schools to address. Although there is now far greater expertise in...

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  • What confuses primary children in history...

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    Young children who automatically see shiny things as new no matter what their age, those who mix up technology from one age with another, those who dismiss people in the past as stupid because they did not have the possessions we have today, those who equate the age of a...

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