-
The Normans
Topic Pack
This Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on the Normans.
The Normans
-
Tudor Society
Topic Pack
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum
The Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on Tudor Society.
Tudor Society
-
Tudor Monarchy
Topic Pack
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
The Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on the Tudor Monarchy.
Tudor Monarchy
-
Britain Since 1930
Topic Pack
This Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on Britain since 1930.
Britain Since 1930
-
The Victorians
Topic Pack
The Topic Pack gives you a brief summary of the Victorians.
The Victorians
-
Ancient Egypt: topic pack
Topic Pack
The Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on Ancient Egypt. It includes sections on Ancient Egyptian society, trade and the River Nile, and key people.
Ancient Egypt: topic pack
-
Creating the 'creative history' website
Primary History article
Editorial note: The role of ICT in the Digital Age is a major, perhaps even, the major factor, in enhancing creativity in the learning and teaching of history. This paper illuminates another dimension of ICT in the Digital Age and creativity. It shows how a teacher's creativity has produced a...
Creating the 'creative history' website
-
In My View: Creativity & History
Article
Introduction
A great deal has been written recently defining what is meant by creativity in primary education. And much has been written urging us to ‘teach creatively'. Yet there had been no exploration of what teaching creatively means in terms of teaching history until a group of colleagues and I...
In My View: Creativity & History
-
History: Using Stories
HA Quick Guides
‘Making the past present and bringing the distant near' Thomas Babington Macaulay 1828 Smollett's constitutional HistoryAs a teacher covering some area of primary history such as Florence Nightingale or Victorian Britain have you ever heard the dreaded words from a child ‘So what?' This can actually be a front for...
History: Using Stories
-
Assessment for learning in Primary History
A Guide to Assessment
A Guide to Assessment for learning in Primary History
Assessment for learning in Primary History
-
Primary Topic Websites
Topic Pack
Please note: these links are now over 10 years old and some may no longer work
We have put together a short list of websites that may be useful for teaching particular topics. Please note this is not an exhaustive list, the sites are not necessarily ones we endorse and are...
Primary Topic Websites
-
Curriculum Mapping at Key Stage 2
Curriculum Map
The revised National Curriculum for history published on July 8th 2013 contains new content and possibly greater coverage that may find schools needing to map out what they cover and when more closely. The following list defines the topics that must be taught. Following this are some suggestions as to how...
Curriculum Mapping at Key Stage 2
-
Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
Primary History article
Creative curricular planning With the National Curriculum under review, it seems that more schools are taking a creative approach to planning by delivering the curriculum through a focused theme or topic. This has allowed schools to take more ownership of the curriculum and has helped teachers become more innovative in their...
Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
-
Scheme of Work: Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scots settlement in Britain
Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
In this unit, children can be introduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to Britain for a long time. They can learn about some of the tensions involved in the settlement as well as ways of life and matters that impact on us still.
This...
Scheme of Work: Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scots settlement in Britain
-
Progression without Levels
Briefing Pack
"As part of our reforms to the national curriculum , the current system of ‘levels' used to report children's attainment and progress will be removed. It will not be replaced." (DfE 2013)
When National Curriculum levels were removed in 2014, it was all too easy to fall into the trap of...
Progression without Levels
-
The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
Primary History article
Obscured by the fame of the Aztec empire or shrouded by a veil of mystery, the cultural history of the Maya has generally been misunderstood by the British public. Maya civilisation developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together (nearly 400,000 km2). This vast territory shows three...
The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas
-
Teaching Slavery
HA Guide
Please note: this guide was written in 2010 and some links may no longer work. For more recent guidance, see:
Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade (2019)
Slavery in Britain (2013)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work (2015)
Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders (2019)
Teaching Slavery...
Teaching Slavery
-
Summary of Key Changes to Primary Curriculum for 2014
Briefing Pack
Following the publication of the final programmes of study and through talking to primary teachers at regional events, it has come to our attention that there is still a great deal of confusion surrounding the final programmes of study for history about what is statutory, what is not, what can...
Summary of Key Changes to Primary Curriculum for 2014
-
Alternative Suggestions to the QCA Planning
Briefing Pack
In the light of recent uncertainties about the new Primary Curriculum, we at the HA felt that it might be helpful to teachers in schools looking to adapt next year's planning to have a few alternative ideas at their fingertips. Those topics identified contain links to medium term plans that are...
Alternative Suggestions to the QCA Planning
-
Cambridge Primary Review 2009
Briefing Pack
We are sure that you are aware by now of the findings of the Cambridge Primary Review. The author, Robin Alexander has been working recently to disseminate information and give teachers and primary education professionals the chance to discuss the priorities for primary education. These ideas, based around the key...
Cambridge Primary Review 2009
-
Supporting Gifted and Talented
HA Quick Guides
It is a long way from a poor background as the son of a Greek-Cypriot postman to that of a life peer and junior minister in the British government. Yet Andrew Adonis is on record as having his youthful imagination fired by primary history, with a love of the subject...
Supporting Gifted and Talented
-
Case Study: Creative chronological thinking
Primary History article
Personal biographies
I often ask groups to collect and record their own personal chronologies. They are asked to bring in evidence to tell the stories of their own lives or of the life of a relative, which they will then weave into a ‘photo book' story. The photo books become...
Case Study: Creative chronological thinking
-
Florence Nightingale
Primary History resource
Born: May 1820; Died: August 1910
Background and early life
Florence Nightingale was born to a wealthy evangelical family in Florence, Italy in 1820. She was named after her place of birth. It was normal at the time for girls from wealthy families to be educated at home by a governess,...
Florence Nightingale
-
Geosong: a transition project
Primary History article
How do we engage young people with their Heritage, answer curriculum needs and make that big leap of transition from primary to secondary school that bit easier?
English Heritage's Geosong treasure hunt website went some way to providing answers. What does the website do? Using handheld GPS devices, groups must...
Geosong: a transition project
-
The Blitz - Lesson Ideas - Film
The Blitz
On the 20th of October 2011, Lecturers and PGCE trainees at the University of the West of England, Bristol created a Blitz experience for the children of three local primary schools. The University's Education department was transformed into a Blitz style street, complete with a home front kitchen, a Warden's post-...
The Blitz - Lesson Ideas - Film
