Primary news

  • New National Curriculum 2014 Website

    7th November 2014

    The History Subject Expert Advisory group on the new National Curriculum 2014 have constructed a new website. The purpose of the site is to offer support to teachers and teacher educators to plan for the implementation of the 2014 history National Curriculum. It aims to clarify the changes that the...

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  • Young Historian Awards 2014

    2nd October 2014

    Spirit of Normandy Trust Award for Primary SchoolsThis year's Spirit of Normandy Trust Young Historian Award for Primary Schools has been awarded to St Stephen's Primary School at Fradley.  The Young Historian Awards are organized by the Young Historian Project, whose objective is to encourage and promote high standards of...

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  • An interview with outgoing president Jackie Eales 2014

    30th August 2014

    An au revoir but not goodbye from outgoing HA President Professor Jackie Eales Jackie Eales has been an enthusiastic President for the last three years who has been very happy to visit many of the branches to give lectures and to assist in key HA events. Jackie's lectures at the...

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  • Young Quills 2013 Winners Announced

    3rd July 2014

    The Historical Association announces the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction 2013 The ‘Young Quills' Award for Historical Fiction recognises the powerful role that fiction can have for introducing, informing and exciting young people about historical events, characters and places. The competition has two categories - Primary and...

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  • Write Your Own Historical Story Competition 2014

    24th June 2014

    Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2014. Once again the competition has been a success with 101 stories from 40 schools across the country, and a couple from abroad. All the entries are admirably creative. Our young writers have chosen to set their stories...

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  • Curriculum Planning: World Study

    11th June 2014

    Curriculum Planning: which non-European society might we offer at school?‘A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history - one study chosen from: early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900; Mayan civilization c. AD 900; Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.'That's quite clear then - there's...

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  • National Literacy Trust Brings WW1 to Life

    21st May 2014

    New Private Peaceful Resource from Into FilmAn innovative new, cross curricular resource from education charity Into Film and the National Literacy Trust offers teachers an array of stimulating possibilities for using Michael Morpurgo's moving story Private Peaceful to develop literacy and bring World War I to life in its centenary...

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  • The Historian Twitter Biography Competition 2014

    27th March 2014

    Some readers of The Historian will be users of Twitter and may already follow the Historical Association's Twitter feed https://twitter.com/histassoc For those who are not, Twitter is an on-line social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read tweets, which are text messages limited to 140...

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  • The Young Quills 2013

    19th November 2013

    The Young Quills 2013The Historical Association is now accepting books for the Young Quills Historical Fiction Awards 2013. Books will be going out to schools for review in December. The winners will be announced in the spring. Reviews of books entered for the award will be posted on the HA...

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  • Global Learning Programme (GLP) for England

    6th November 2013

    We are delighted to let you know about the new Global Learning Programme (GLP) for England which launches this month (November 2013). The GLP is a free programme of support that can help enhance teaching and learning about global issues at Key Stages 2 and 3. The GLP focuses on...

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