Found 1,556 results matching 'scheme of work' within Primary   (Clear filter)

Not found what you’re looking for? Try using double quote marks to search for a specific whole word or phrase, try a different search filter on the left, or see our search tips.

  • Film: Berengaria of Navarre

      History & Myth
    In this talk Dr Gabrielle Storey discusses the life and times of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England, lord of Le Mans, and wife of Richard I. Berengaria of Navarre has been inaccurately labelled as the only queen never to have stepped foot in England. This talk will present new analysis...
    Film: Berengaria of Navarre
  • Film series: History and SEND

      Multipage Article
    Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding it difficult to ensure and demonstrate progression in history with these pupils? In this series of five short films Sue Temple, assistant programme lead (BA hons and early years) at the university...
    Film series: History and SEND
  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire
  • Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England

      Article
    Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time the diversity of the Anglo-Saxon built environment. The book explores how the natural landscape was modified for human activity, and how settlements were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. It also shows how...
    Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England
  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2024
  • Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

      Article
    Professor Jan Rüger joined the Virtual Branch on 9th February 2023 to talk about his book Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea, tracing a rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War. For generations this North Sea island expressed a German...
    Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
  • Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

      Churchill's Great Game
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Professor Richard Toye explores Churchill’s response to the USSR and how his actions during the early Cold War years intersected with his views of traditional Anglo-Russian tensions and the legacy of the ‘Great Game’. Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University...
    Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War
  • Guidance for ITE tutors

      Multipage Article
    The importance of subject specific teaching in primary ITE has become a central focus since the new inspection framework was introduced (DfE, 2020). This mirrors the deep dives that happen during school inspections and has highlighted the importance of strong subject teaching in ITE.  This section provides guidance for ITE...
    Guidance for ITE tutors
  • Guidance for school-based mentors

      Multipage Article
    The role of the mentor has increased in importance over the last twenty years, in part due to the growth of school-based training routes into teaching, coupled with a much greater focus on quality assurance across all aspects of initial teacher education. Mentoring is a highly skilled role which involves...
    Guidance for school-based mentors
  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2026

      The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
    Each year we are so impressed by the ever increasing number and standard of entries we receive around such a wide range of historical periods and settings. You can take a look at some of last year’s winning entries here. Unleash the creativity of your pupils through the Write Your Own...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2026
  • Guidance for Trainee and Early Career Teachers

      Multipage Article
    Training to be an Early Years and Primary teacher can seem daunting. Especially when you consider that you will be teaching so many subjects, and your Initial Teacher Education course may not include very much time or support in how to teach History. The Historical Association understands this and so...
    Guidance for Trainee and Early Career Teachers
  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan
  • Case study: The body in the bog - Red Christian goes missing

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Bog Body mysteries have played a central, seminal role in History Education in Britain since the 1970s. The investigation of the Tollund Man Mystery was the original, introductory investigation for pupils that the Schools Council [aka Schools]...
    Case study: The body in the bog - Red Christian goes missing
  • The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: When teaching local history we all have an idea of what it is: both as a body of knowledge - information, dates, facts and substantive concepts - and as what that knowledge is based...
    The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins
  • Cross Curricular Project on a famous person

      Primary History case study
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. If you are considering studying someone other than Florence Nightingale you have two basic options. You can either choose a local character who would be more relevant to the children, or you could study someone who...
    Cross Curricular Project on a famous person
  • Making links: Myths, legends and problem-solving with the Greeks

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction: Meaningful links "Teachers will be able to make links within and across areas of learning to help children understand how each distinctive area links to and is supported by others." (Rose Chapter 2, 2.23) ‘Meaningful...
    Making links: Myths, legends and problem-solving with the Greeks
  • Make a bespoke CPD or consultancy request

      Multipage Article
    At the Historical Association, we offer a wide range of subject-specific CPD opportunities at a range of prices to suit every budget. However, if you require history CPD that is tailored directly to your needs in school or you are looking for consultancy, we also offer bespoke training and consultancy...
    Make a bespoke CPD or consultancy request
  • Film: China's Good War

      How World War II is shaping a new nationalism
    In this lecture Professor Mitter uses film and other propaganda works to explore how key events of global history are being represented in China to develop a different understanding of its own past. The talk addresses a number of the factors for this change in how China is reflecting on...
    Film: China's Good War
  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2023: Young readers category Winner: Tony Bradman for Bruno and Frida (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Judith Eagle for Accidental Stowaway (Faber) Intermediate category Winner: Tom Palmer for Resist (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Lesley Parr for When the...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2023
  • Film: The new Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF) 2019

      HA Conference Keynote Speech
    The film below was taken at the HA Annual Conference in Chester May 2019 and features Heather Fearn, Inspector Curriculum and Professional Development Lead, Ofsted. This session aimed to explain Ofsted’s approach to inspecting the curriculum under the new education inspection framework (EIF) that will come into effect in September 2019, with...
    Film: The new Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF) 2019
  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
  • A view from the KS1 classroom

      Article
    Introduction "So what did you do at school, today?" As a child, I remember being asked this question often by my good humoured, paternal grandfather, when he met me at the end of the day. On returning from the trenches in 1919, he had trained to become a teacher and...
    A view from the KS1 classroom
  • Young Quills 2025

      16th April 2025
    Each year, the Historical Association runs Young Quills, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection.  Our...
    Young Quills 2025
  • 20 Years On, The 1986 Domesday Project

      Primary History article
    The mention of 'The Domesday Project' to any teacher who was in the classroom in 1985 usually triggers a very vivid memory of involvement in a national survey to capture life at that time. Teachers of over one million pupils in both primary and secondary schools volunteered to be included...
    20 Years On, The 1986 Domesday Project
  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation