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  • History, citizenship and controversy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Y4 question their MP about nuclear waste policy; Y6 survey people in their community and school about a proposed casino in their town, and feed back the information to the local council; children decide to...
    History, citizenship and controversy

  • Primary History 46: Editorial: History, Citizenship and the Curriculum - A Fit Purpose

      Primary History article
    Read Primary History 46 In AD 62 an earthquake devastated the town of Pompeii. In AD 1976 Jim Callaghan in his Ruskin speech set off a seismic shock that shook education to its foundations. Almost two decades after the 62 AD Pompeii earthquake’s warning signs the volcanic explosion of Vesuvius...
    Primary History 46: Editorial: History, Citizenship and the Curriculum - A Fit Purpose

  • Chronology

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  Learning about the complex concept of chronology is often considered very challenging for young children, yet this understanding underpins children's developing...
    Chronology

  • Writing Family Story, Writing History

      Primary History article
    Why did I research my family history and write a memoir based on my ancestors’ and my own life? And why is all this relevant to readers of the Primary History Journal and not just self indulgent musing? Because it is an insider’s story of trying to write honest history...
    Writing Family Story, Writing History

  • Planning a Victorian School Day

      Primary History article
    Learning is more engaging and better retained when it is contextualised and when it appeals to a variety of learning styles. How better to bring history alive, than by having it invade children's school environment and transform their everyday experience? Getting away from predominantly auditory learning, the printed word and...
    Planning a Victorian School Day

  • Stories and National Identity

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If you were asked to select just one story which you thought all children should know about British history, what would it be? Would it be Guy Fawkes or Florence Nightingale? The battle of Hastings...
    Stories and National Identity

  • How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Primary History regularly contains articles from teachers who have taken some aspect of their locality and turned it into a really good activity. Hundreds of OFSTED reports as well, comment on really good practice in...
    How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

  • Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Alongside modern University buildings, at Beckett Park, (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), there is evidence of a monastic grange, a seventeenth century farmhouse, and an eighteenth century mansion which was extended in Victorian Times. The Beckett Park Archaeology Project was established in...
    Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

  • Some teaching and learning strategies

      Article
    The history of the community is an important aspect of history in both key stages but is rarely something that can just be taken off the shelf. Wherever possible, local history should be used to link different periods of history. The specific Key Stage 2 unit should be an investigation...
    Some teaching and learning strategies

  • Beyond the classroom walls: museums and primary history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Apart from the difficulty of getting hold of a hard copy of the new National Curriculum framework, museum educators have little to worry about in the results of the curriculum review. The framework reveals few changes that will affect what museums have...
    Beyond the classroom walls: museums and primary history