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  • Planning for history and environmental education

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a headteacher, I want my teachers to plan high quality learning experiences for children. By ensuring that lessons are vibrant and exciting, and that stimulate that ‘inbuilt curiosity', we make sure that children encounter...
    Planning for history and environmental education

  • Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

      Primary History article
    We all agree that oral history is a particularly powerful and attractive method for children to gather evidence and appreciate the real life relevance of history. From the Early Years to Year 6, many of us look deliberately for the opportunities to bring a visitor into the classroom, who will...
    Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

  • Case Study: Working with gifted and talented children at an Iron Age hill fort in north Somerset

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The phone call was over - manna from heaven. The opportunity to work with a ‘real' archaeologist on a ‘real' Iron Age site seemed far too good to be true. The cluster of eight South...
    Case Study: Working with gifted and talented children at an Iron Age hill fort in north Somerset

  • Teaching history to young children

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is a subject whose meaning is properly appreciated only in our maturity. In their old age we find those we consider wisest turning to Gibbon, Burckhardt, and Thucydides. The richness and endlessly elaborated meaning of...
    Teaching history to young children

  • Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

      Primary Expert Podcasts
    In this podcast Dr Hilary Cooper, Professor of History and Pedagogy at the University of Cumbria, looks at why teachers and students seem to enjoy primary history and discusses processes of enquiry, chronological understanding and planning a topic. 1. Ofsted Report History for All published in 2011 said that: "history taught in schools...
    Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

  • Thinking about questions to ask a sailor who knew Christopher Columbus

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The drama was an element in teaching a topic on Columbus with a class of 6-7 year old pupils. The Scheme of Work's title was WATER which lasted six weeks. The history element lasted...
    Thinking about questions to ask a sailor who knew Christopher Columbus