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  • The Standing Stone

      Article
    ‘The Standing Stone’ story and the activities around it developed from several different starting-points. One was the requirement in the 2014 National Curriculum for history at Key Stage 2 for children to be taught prehistory, specifically about ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’, with Bronze...
    The Standing Stone
  • Primary History 11

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Farming in the 30s - Patrick Wood 6 The Living History Experience - Karen Player 8 Do Vikings Eat Chocolate? - Meryl Hargreaves 10 Village History - Kathleen Byrne 12 ''We've Done That Miss" - Four Warwickshire teachers 14 History Comes To Life - Shirley Davies 15 News 16...
    Primary History 11
  • Local railway history: using visual resources

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Before the 1960s British Rail's spider-web network of railway lines reached every town and thousands of villages. Where you live would have been within a thirty minute journey from a station; scroll down to look at...
    Local railway history: using visual resources
  • Primary History 14

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Not Henry VIII! - Ann Darrant 6 History Through the Streets - Robin Coulthard 8 We Plough the Fields - Patrick Wood & Norma Bell 10 Digging for Victory - Erica Pounce 15 An Active Approach to Ancient History: the Greeks - Harriet Martin 18 Grace Darling and Reception Children...
    Primary History 14
  • Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    The stories of Robin Hood, which date from the Middle Ages, are integral to an understanding of British history. Although historians have not been able to identify a single historical figure that can be called Robin Hood, rooted in evidence, the myth or legend of Robin Hood has had a...
    Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1
  • Significant anniversaries: the infamous Beeching Report 1963

      Primary History article
    March 2023 sees the anniversary of a report that had profound significance on social history and which affected many parts of the United Kingdom. There is every chance that it had an effect close to your school especially if you are in a more rural or coastal area. The Beeching...
    Significant anniversaries: the infamous Beeching Report 1963
  • Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Historical enquiry requires reasoning. Even historical imagination depends on being able to evaluate a number of possible responses to an hypothesis and mastery of detail and argument. The high levels of thinking in history of...
    Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian
  • Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation stage

      Primary History article
    Using ‘Development Matters' to plan learning for history in the Foundation stage You won't find the term history in the Early Years curriculum framework at all. That being so, it can be difficult to know how best to support our Nursery and Reception colleagues when developing historical understanding within the...
    Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation stage
  • Primary History 12

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    5 Towards a Philosophy of Primary History - John Fines Quarry Bank Mill 6 The Apprentice House - Vivienne Woods 7 Who Carried the Can? - Keith Robinson 9 A Dark Satanic Mill - Pauline Milk 10 The Fiction of History - Ian Fell Ironbridge Gorge Museum 12 The Museum...
    Primary History 12
  • Local history for children: through the eyes of a B.ED. student

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. My favourite subject in primary school was always history. I loved everything about history, but in particular I liked learning about the history of the local area. I went to school in a small Yorkshire town...
    Local history for children: through the eyes of a B.ED. student
  • Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities

      Primary History article
    “It’s like they’ve gone up a year!” This was the unprompted observation of a teaching assistant at Buckden Primary School last summer, supporting Giles Fullard, a secondary history teacher from Hinchingbrooke School, near Huntingdon leading a lesson with a year 6 class on “Was Boudicca Britain’s first hero?” The scheme...
    Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities
  • A history of the world - 100 objects that tell a story

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: A History of the World is the most creative, imaginative and dynamic development in primary History Education for thirty years. It ties in perfectly with and supports the government's re-vitalisation of primary education that...
    A history of the world - 100 objects that tell a story
  • Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories

      Primary History feature
    Hilary Cooper illuminates how Horrible Histories can be effectively used to develop an understanding of chronology. She researched two topics: children and law and order. You can download her full paper: it is included in Primary History 59 on Teaching Chronology.
    Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories
  • 'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: John Fines produced two case studies of Local History for the Nuffield Primary History Project. One on them is published here for the first time.
    'Doing Local History' through maps and drama
  • Primary History 10

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Viewpoints - Penelope Harnett 5 Letters 6 Setting Activities at Historic Houses - Gail Durbin 9 Here Be Lions - Editorial Article 11 History at Key Stage 2: Looking to the Long Term - Keith Dickson 12 Planning for the New Orders History Key Stages 1 and 2 - David...
    Primary History 10
  • Primary History 13

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage 4 Primary History Teachers - an endangered species? - Alan Hodkinson 5 Corinthian Helmet - Patrick Wood 6 Begin at the Beginning: The Iliad - Patrick Wood 8 Using Greek Vases in a Study of the Greeks at Key Stage 2 - Keith Dickson 10...
    Primary History 13
  • Primary History 31: The Industrial Revolution

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial 4 Primary Noticeboard 6 In My View: Teaching for purpose: one dilemma? - Alan McCully 8 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas - Jayne Woodhouse and Alan Hodkinson 10 I have not seen a butterfly around here… - Penelope Harnett 12 Revising the English Reformation - Peter Fleming 15 Celebrating good practice;...
    Primary History 31: The Industrial Revolution
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drama and history: a theory for learning

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. When I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama and role play have always been...
    Drama and history: a theory for learning
  • Our Iron Age challenge

      Developing historical understanding through building an iron age house
    The University of Chichester’s three-year BA (Hons) Degree for Primary Education and Teaching involves learning how to provide rigorous and creative educational opportunities for children. The course involves one creativity module each year. The final one involves the development of skills and confidence in creating problem-solving. Four of us were...
    Our Iron Age challenge
  • Introducing local history: the Fusehill Workhouse Project

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Master and Mistress of the Workhouse refused to talk to any of us as she was adamant that nothing she could remember would be very interesting! Of course disappointments like this have to be accepted and...
    Introducing local history: the Fusehill Workhouse Project
  • The digital revolution

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Developments in information technology continue at an extraordinary pace. Many young children will have little or no idea of what it was like to live in a world without mobile phones, computers and the Internet. Most children will regularly make use...
    The digital revolution
  • Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Some primary schools are like the High Street in many of our towns. I can predict what I will see before I go through the door. What I want to see is something that gives me...
    Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?
  • Keeping children motivated in primary history while ensuring they can recall what they have been taught

      Primary History article
    Rachelle Blagdon leads history at Thomas Walling School – one that has already earned a gold Quality Mark. Impressing the assessor particularly was the way the school paid dual attention both to the motivation aspect of the subject and to effective curriculum planning. Four particular approaches were used to enhance...
    Keeping children motivated in primary history while ensuring they can recall what they have been taught