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Strategies for A-Level marking to motivate and enable
Teaching History article
Jane Facey was unsatisfied with the way in which her A-Level students responded to typical assessment practice. This would normally involve their teacher marking their work and then providing them with written feedback. In looking to move beyond this, Facey drew upon a wide range of research and practice which...
Strategies for A-Level marking to motivate and enable
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Primary History 35
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial
4 Primary Noticeboard
6 In My View: The Primary National Strategy and primary history – Maureen Lewis
8 A Quick Guide to Museums and Galleries on the Internet – Jo Peat
11 Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners? – Anthony Richards (Read article)
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Primary History 35
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Primary History 38
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 Primary History: your views
10 History and the National Primary Strategy — Kevan Collins (Read article)
12 Creativity, imagination and fun in primary history — Tim Lomas (Read article)
16 Engage, innovate, motivate with QCA's new website for history — Jerome Freeman and Jane...
Primary History 38
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Developing pupil explanation through web debates
Teaching History article
Kathryn Greenfield became dissatisfied with her pupils' written responses, particularly the rather limited explanations that they were giving in support of points that they made. Drawing here on recent work in using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to develop pupil historical argument and reasoning, Greenfield explains how she used web debates...
Developing pupil explanation through web debates
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Primary pedagogy: Lessons from Early Years and Primary ITT Students
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
The last decade has witnessed a massive increase in the use of ICT as a teaching and learning tool within the Primary classroom. Schools are indeed perceived as outmoded without the tools of the trade: the Interactive White Boards, ICT suites,...
Primary pedagogy: Lessons from Early Years and Primary ITT Students
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Primary History 26
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Primary Noticeboard – edited by Tim Lomas
7 Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from Ofsted – Scott Harrison (Read article)
10 Rhyd-y-Car cottages at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life – Susanna Wood (Read article)
12 Asking the right questions. a study of the ability...
Primary History 26
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Primary History 27
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial – Penelope Harnett
4 Primary Noticeboard – edited by Tim Lomas
5 Planning for diversity in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum – Hilary Claire
8 History in the Foundation Stage – Jayne Woodhouse (Read article)
9 Academic and teaching subject knowledge and the KS2 history classroom: adaptation...
Primary History 27
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Primary History 24
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Primary Update – Tim Lomas
6 The Odyssey: a musical and historical journey – Kevin Hamel
8 History and the literacy hour – Paul Silvera & Ian Cawood (Read article)
10 A treasure trove of local history: how to use your local record office – Jacqui Halewood (Read article)...
Primary History 24
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Primary History 23
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Primary Update – Tim Lomas
6 The Historical Association’s response to the Curriculum 2000 proposals – Tim Lomas (Read article)
7 John Fines, a tribute to our past president – John Nichol
8 Any place for a database in the teaching and learning of history at KS1? – Lez...
Primary History 23
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Primary History 40
Journal
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: spotlight on HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar — Rachel Rhodes
11 Pop-up history — Ondia Gillette
14 What is worth knowing in history? — Peter Vass
16 A history curriculum for the 21st century: From Russia With Love —...
Primary History 40
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Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009
Primary History article
Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future - An editorial response to the Cambridge Primary Review.
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Introduction
The Cambridge Primary Review, director Robin Alexander, is the...
Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009
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The Historian 156
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article - open access)
6 Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior – Joanne Allen (Read article)
11 Philip Larkin: appreciating parish churches – Trevor James (Read article)
14 Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady – Joanna Hickson (Read article)
20 Vera Ignatievna...
The Historian 156
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New, Novice or Nervous? 151: Getting beyond bad ‘source work'
Teaching History feature
This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
New, Novice or Nervous? 151: Getting beyond bad ‘source work'
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An Introduction to Primary History
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Primary History is the UK’s leading magazine for primary history educators, offering expert insights, practical teaching ideas, and curriculum support from EYFS to Key Stage 2. Published termly, it’s an essential resource for subject leaders, teachers and trainees passionate about inspiring young learners through engaging and inclusive historical education.
Become...
An Introduction to Primary History
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Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7
Teaching History article
The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7
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From ‘double vision’ to panorama: exploring interpretations of Nazi popularity
Teaching History article
Jim Carroll relished the opportunity, in the new A-level specification he was teaching, to find an effective way of teaching his students to analyse interpretations in their coursework essays. Reflecting on the difficulties he had faced as a trainee teacher teaching younger pupils about interpretations, and dissatisfied with examination board...
From ‘double vision’ to panorama: exploring interpretations of Nazi popularity
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Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!
Teaching History journal article
Sophia Nzeribe Nascimento, a mixed-race teacher working in a diverse London school, set out to explore her students’ assumptions about who historians are. While her own ethnicity and gender may have convinced at least some of her students that history is not exclusively the preserve of old white men, she...
Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!
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History and the National Primary Strategy
Primary History article
The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
History and the National Primary Strategy
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‘Through the looking glass’
Journal article
Danielle Donaldson began to notice the verbs that her pupils used to express their ideas. She noticed that more successful pupils were using carefully chosen verbs to express their conceptual thinking about causation or change, and wondered how this might relate to, and reflect, the breadth and security of their...
‘Through the looking glass’
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The Medieval Empire
Classic Pamphlet
The subject of this pamphlet is one that, by general consent, takes a central place in European history in the middle ages. The history of the Empire, it has often been said, is co-terminous with the history of western Christendom; and Lord Bryce long ago described it as a ‘universal...
The Medieval Empire
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The Historian 122: French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 French chivalry in twelfth century Britain? - John Gillingham (Read Article)
11 The President's Column
12 D-Day Commemorations: the last big year to remember? - Paula Kitching and Jon Wort (Read Article)
19 Bayeux - Edward Towne (Read Article)
20 ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici!' A personal reflection on Julius Caesar and...
The Historian 122: French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
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Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Claire Riley explains how she developed and improved the ‘layers of inference' diagram-already a popular device since Hilary Cooper's work-as a way of getting pupils fascinated by challenging texts and pictures. Working with the whole ability range in Year 9 she analyses her successes and failures, offering many practical suggestions...
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3
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Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated
Ian Gibson and Susan McLelland describe their work using cause boxes. They identity the type of historical learning that they felt was taking place and the range of factors which they judged to be critical...
Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8
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Exploring the spices of the east: how curry got to our table
Primary History article
Every migrant to our shores brings with them the flavours and dishes of home, every trader searches for exotic and exciting new taste sensations. Britain’s culinary history has been shaped by migration, trade and empire.
How curry, exploration and empire building are linked
At the end of the Tudor period...
Exploring the spices of the east: how curry got to our table
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From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
Teaching History article
Warren Valentine was dissatisfied with his Year 7 students’ accounts of change across the Tudor period. Fixated with Henry VIII’s wives, they failed to reflect on or analyse the bigger picture of the whole Tudor narrative.
In order to overcome this problem, his department created a ‘thought-map’ exercise in which...
From road map to thought map: helping students theorise the nature of change
