What's On

In this section you'll find our current CPD listings, including details of our regular courses and any current webinar series. Each webinar series is made up of several different sessions which can also be registered for as stand-alone sessions. To see each event that's coming up, you can view our listing of all available primary events, 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 Spring 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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  • Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history

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    "It has proved extremely useful, both in terms of my subject knowledge and ideas for the primary classroom." "As subject lead, it's so important to know about each period in your curriculum, and these webinars are perfect. I have joined every one of these subject knowledge webinars that's relevant to...

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  • Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2025

    11th December 2024

    Free online lecture by Dr Antoine Burgard 3 February 2025, 5pm As Allied Forces began their advance further into Europe 80 years ago they began to uncover places of unimaginable horror. They had known about the Concentration Camps and the Labour Camps before the war but the discovery of how...

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  • Webinar series: History and literacy: better together

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    History is a highly literate discipline, but what should the relationship be between primary history and the general teaching of literacy and English? The answer is that primary history should be modelling what it is like to think, speak, read, write and listen in an historical way. However, the subject...

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  • Webinar series: Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS

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    This webinar series will support your teaching of ‘past and present’ at the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will help you to make sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS, consider what makes effective pedagogy at EYFS, and develop curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1. How is the series...

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  • On-demand webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history

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    The National Curriculum for History includes concepts of disciplinary knowledge which Ofsted expects to see taught hand in hand with substantive knowledge through Key Stages 1 and 2. This series of practical webinars with Andrew Wrenn will show how subject leaders can assess for progression in different disciplinary concepts but...

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  • On-demand webinar series: Diversity in local history

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    The Key Stage 1 and 2 history curriculum requires a local study. The local study is an opportunity for pupils to engage with their local area; to discover how it has been shaped by those who came before them and how their locality can reveal broader chronological and spatial contexts....

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  • Make a bespoke CPD or consultancy request

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    At the Historical Association, we offer a wide range of subject-specific CPD opportunities at a range of prices to suit every budget. However, if you require history CPD that is tailored directly to your needs in school or you are looking for consultancy, we also offer bespoke training and consultancy...

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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 Spring term: Friday 14 March 2025, 9.30am–3pm (online) What does the course cover? Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are...

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  • Your HA Virtual Branch

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    The HA Virtual Branch is a great way to keep your history up-to-date, whether you are working or relaxing, all from the comfort of your home. The Virtual Branch is free and open to everybody, and recordings of the talks are made available online after the event for HA members....

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  • Course: Getting to grips with 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 Spring term: Wednesday 26 February, 10am–4pm What does the course cover? This course is for primary teachers who are inexperienced in teaching primary history or who did not receive...

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  • Course: Practical approaches to teaching 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 Please note this course will not be running in the spring term. Summer term dates will be published in March 2025. What does the course cover? Discover what...

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  • Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader

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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) Spring 2025 cohort Start date: Wednesday 22 January 2025, 4pm–5.30pm What does this course cover? This is an online course for developing history leadership in primary teaching. This term,...

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