Oh no - not more extended writing! Firing pupil motivation through creative tasking.

This E-CPD unit considers the issues departments needs to consider in planning for both challenging and engaging history.

The example of teaching below comes from the Historical Association Key Stage 2-3 History transition project website (2005).  The activity showed Dave Morel a primary school teacher impersonating American filmmaker Oliver Stone and Matt Stanford, a secondary history teacher playing a stereotypical historian.  The Year 5/6 pupils were reporters at a Hollywood news conference debating the historical accuracy of Stone's film on Alexander the Great.  The conference was chaired by secondary AST, Geraint Brown.  Arguably this example combines academic rigour and great fun for all involved but it was not devised in a vacuum or on a whim.