Key Stage 3
This section organises material on Key Stage 3 into four categories: Progression and Assessment; Transition (from primary); Planning; and the Global Learning Project.
Planning
- Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- How diverse is your history curriculum?
- Redesigning the curriculum: a short guide for the new, novice or nervous
Progression & Assessment
- No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9
- Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
- Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3
- ‘Weaving’ knowledge
- Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions
- Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance
Transition
- History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?
- Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity
- Of the many significant things that have ever happened, what should we teach?
- Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar
- Using Folktales, Myths and Legends
- Remembering Agincourt: Bilingual Enquiry
Local History
- Students’ local history stories
- Studying our own school’s archives to promote historical understanding in Year 7
- Dialogue, engagement and generative interaction in the history classroom
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
- Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity
- Memorialisation and the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme
Learning outside the classroom
- Imagining cities: exploring historical sites as contested spaces
- Making reading routine
- Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
- Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?
- Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house
- Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War