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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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.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
  • Building learning places

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The built environment is hugely important to all of us, allowing us to live our lives in particular ways, and perhaps even constraining our lives in ways we don't yet recognise or understand. The buildings...
    Building learning places
  • Is primary history thriving?

      Article
    The 2022 Historical Association survey of primary schools drew a good response. The results have been evaluated. The full report has been published on the website but this article summarises the main findings and suggested strategies to take the subject further. Its findings help direct the resources of the HA....
    Is primary history thriving?
  • 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
  • Teaching the Wars of the Roses in primary history

      Primary History article
    The Tudors is a relatively popular topic for those Key Stage 2 teachers looking at a theme extending beyond 1066. In this article Matthew Sossick argues that there is a large gap in understanding if pupils understand nothing of how the Tudors emerged as such a dominant dynasty. This means...
    Teaching the Wars of the Roses in primary history
  • Significant anniversaries: Windrush 75

      Primary History article
    It is 75 years since the ship called the Empire Windrush brought people from the Caribbean to begin a new life in the United Kingdom. Those who also arrived in the years leading up to 1971 are often referred to as ‘the Windrush generation’. Their contribution to Britain socially, culturally...
    Significant anniversaries: Windrush 75
  • Teaching black British history through local archives

      Primary History article
    The huge benefits that local archives can bring to primary history are explored by Steven Kenyon. He illustrates this with a case study of Lancashire Archives. The central focus is on ways in which local history can support diversity in the curriculum by providing three examples – one for Key Stage...
    Teaching black British history through local archives
  • Benin: exploring an African empire at Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    Karin Doull reminds us of the value in studying Benin as a non-European study area and suggests how it might be approached, stressing the importance of placing it in context through comparison. The article addresses worthwhile aspects, key concepts and questions as well as furnishing some key information including extracts...
    Benin: exploring an African empire at Key Stage 2
  • My favourite place: Lyme Regis, Dorset

      Primary History feature
    Claire Bradshaw describes why Lyme Regis is a very special place not just for its stunning scenery but for its educational value. It probably has a history dating back to earlier than any other article in the ‘My Favourite Place’ series – this one running into millions of years.   ...
    My favourite place: Lyme Regis, Dorset
  • Primary History 94: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 94  It may be tempting to imagine that a stream of good authors send in a range of articles and all that is needed is to tidy them up a bit and publish. If this were the case there would be no need for an editorial board....
    Primary History 94: Out now
  • The wheels (and horses…) on the bus

      Primary History article
    A theme in the Early Years will have many cross-curricular links, encompassing many of the different areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework. The focus for this article is on historical elements of Understanding the World; however there will be some cross-over into other areas of...
    The wheels (and horses…) on the bus
  • My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

      Primary History feature
    About 3,200 years old, the Acropolis of Athens supports the most stunning and complete collection of ancient Greek structures that still exist. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, it remains a mostly intact classical collection that fascinates those who study and visit it. I have always been intrigued...
    My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece
  • Teaching about ‘these islands’ since 1066

      Primary History article
    This article builds on an earlier publication in Primary History Issue 89 which considered the history of ‘these islands’ before 1066 in the primary history curriculum. Both articles address the first aim of the National Curriculum which indicates that children should:  know and understand the history of these islands as...
    Teaching about ‘these islands’ since 1066
  • Teaching about Remembrance Day in EYFS

      Primary History article
    Remembrance Day (11 November) is an important time for children to learn about how we choose to both represent and remember significant events in the past. Within EYFS, learning about remembrance most obviously lends itself to Understanding the World – with a focus on children making connections between past and present,...
    Teaching about Remembrance Day in EYFS
  • Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

      Primary History article
    The government has proposed creating a model curriculum for history. This will contain a range of non-statutory and supplementary guidance to focus history teaching. In July 2022, terms of reference to identify principles and approaches underpinning the model history curriculum were published. There will be an advisory panel that will...
    Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?
  • Artefacts in the neighbourhood

      Primary History article
    Alf Wilkinson uses an everyday object found near you – a post box – to develop your children’s history skills. Look carefully at the picture. It is a familiar object in the neighbourhood. It is a postbox – there will be one (or more) near you. Go out and look...
    Artefacts in the neighbourhood
  • School war memorials as the subject for enquiry-based learning

      Primary History article
    A visit to a local war memorial to coincide with Remembrance Day leaves a lasting legacy. Every year, groups of primary school children visit a war memorial in their town and village or local church, and increasingly benefit from educational visits to sites of remembrance such as the National Memorial...
    School war memorials as the subject for enquiry-based learning
  • Primary History 92: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 92 It seems like such a short while ago that we were all joyfully celebrating the platinum jubilee (or platy joobs) and yet this edition contains an article focused on our new monarch, King Charles III, and some of the changes we are having to get used...
    Primary History 92: Out now
  • Planning for 'Changes within Living Memory'

      Primary History article
    While changes to the Key Stage 1 subject content are not as extensive as Key Stage 2 it is necessary to be aware of the changing emphasis within the different themes. ‘Changes within Living Memory' has a couple of key issues to be aware of. First, ‘living memory' refers to...
    Planning for 'Changes within Living Memory'
  • Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?

      Primary History article
    No teacher ever wants to claim that their history curriculum is incoherent. All schools want to have a curriculum that is logically ordered and consistent, that has clarity and that holds together. It is easy to assume that how we see this coherence as adults must also translate to the...
    Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851: teaching a significant event at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    The Great Exhibition allows pupils to consider the impact of a particular event. The exhibition provides a means to look at Britain’s wider role in the world and social and technical developments such as the impact of the railways. Pupils can explore a variety of sources, consider the substantive concepts...
    The Great Exhibition of 1851: teaching a significant event at Key Stage 1
  • Think like an archaeologist!

      Primary History article
    Since the great brick-built cities of Mohenjodaro and Harappa were first excavated in the early twentieth century, other large and thousands of small sites have been discovered. Clay was the raw material (bricks) for Indus architecture and everyday objects. Pottery was produced in industrial quantities on the foot wheel, an...
    Think like an archaeologist!
  • Mentoring Student Teachers

      Primary History article
    Up and down the country, providers of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) are involved in applying for reaccreditation so that they can continue to develop and support trainee teachers. This is being done against the backdrop of Ofsted implementing its new inspection framework for ITE, which has seen a number of providers...
    Mentoring Student Teachers
  • Back to basics: using maps in primary history

      Primary History article
    Maps tend to be more associated with geography but they have always been vital to history. This article focuses on the way maps have evolved in history, what they provide for the historian and ways in which they can be used when teaching primary history. A chronological account of the...
    Back to basics: using maps in primary history
  • Primary History 91: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 91 The Platinum Jubilee weekend has vanished in a swirl of colour, noise, pomp and silliness although I suspect Her Majesty and Paddington Bear’s tea party will live on for a long time. The second half of the summer term is upon us with sports days, leaving dos and...
    Primary History 91: Out now