The series consists of five webinar recordings, each lasting approximately 1 hour. The webinar series was originally recorded in Autumn 2024.

Session 1: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms (FREE for HA members)
In recent years, disciplinary thinking has been somewhat overlooked as the 'what' of curriculum has taken the front seat for many schools. This introductory session will explain the rationale for these webinars and consider some principles for re-thinking our approach with disciplinary thinking.

Session 2: Keeping sources messy
This session looks into how source work has often been too tidy in the classroom setting and the reasons behind this. It will explore a different approach to working with sources and evidence and give practical approaches to exemplify what this could look like in classrooms.

Session 3: Interpretations: complexity without confusions
This session delves into interpretations. It analyses how we can be both too simplistic and too complex with our approach. It will explore a different approach to interpretations and give practical approaches to exemplify what this could look like in classrooms.

Session 4: Historical writing
This session focuses on how we can support our students to write like historians. We will explain why PEE models and other simplistic frameworks actually limit our students and instead we should look to the work of historians as an alternative.

Session 5: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
This session focuses into enquiry and on second order concepts. It offers practical advice to how second order concepts can be introduced in a way that is historically rigorous. We will explicitly address the thorny issue of progress maps and how this can be avoided whilst still making sure that the curriculum gets more complex year on year.

It is open to anyone involved in secondary history teaching or ITE including trainees, teachers and subject leaders of secondary history. The series will focus on Key Stage 3, but with application to Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • Reflect on where your teaching of disciplinary thinking could be due a refresh.
• • Build your confidence with curriculum planning of historical thinking or 'second-order concepts'.
• • Take away concrete, practical approaches that can be experimented with in classrooms.

Sessions 1-2 and 4-5 are presented by Hugh Richards, head of history at a comprehensive secondary in York, and Rich Kennett, an assistant headteacher and trust lead for teaching and learning in Bristol.

Session 3 is presented by Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips, history teachers in Cambridgeshire.

Each webinar is charged at £30 for HA members and £45 for non-members (VAT is zero-rated). You must be logged in to your membership account to access the member rate.

You can purchase and access each set of webinars using the links provided. Once you have purchased each webinar, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of the relevant resource page until the stated expiry date.

Expiry date: 5 April 2027

Payment is available by card only. We are unable to arrange block purchases or issue invoices, but VAT receipts are available upon request.