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  • Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 BeckenhamHA@uclmail.net Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors. Associate membership of the branch is £14 for 2025/2026 or £24 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian. All meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. in Christ...
    Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

  • 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

  • What makes good primary history?

      Transition Training Session 5
    This is the 5th in a series of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    What makes good primary history?

  • Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?

      Transition Training Session 4
    This is the 4th of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint,...
    Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?

  • Swansea Branch History

      Branch History
    History of the Swansea BranchThe first Swansea Branch of the Historical Association was established in 1923. Unfortunately, the activities of the branch are unknown as no local documentation from that time has survived. All that is certain is that by 1925 it had ceased to meet.Following a suggestion by the...
    Swansea Branch History

  • Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts

      Exemplar
    Questioning can be used in assessing childrens historical skills, as this example shows.The children were all in Year 4, and were withdrawn from their mixed Year 3/4 class for this lesson. They had covered several aspects of National Curriculum history, including over the past year the Egyptians and a local...
    Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts

  • Citizenship in Ancient Greece: case study

      Case Study
    This was a ten-week Ancient Greece unit, taught to a Year 6 mixed ability class of 34 children. There was a strong citizenship strand running through the whole programme, particularly the strands of political literacy and critical enquiry (see below). Citizenship values and concepts, with teaching/learning activities in italics Appreciation...
    Citizenship in Ancient Greece: case study

  • Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games

      Exemplar
    This was a half-term cross-curricular topic with a mixed Year 1/2 class. It focused on forces in science, storytelling in English, and objects and pictures in history. The children in the class had a wide range of abilities, with a large number having very poor expressive language. Therefore many of...
    Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games

  • Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

      Exemplar
    The lesson was taught to 44 Year 3 children in a first school in Exeter. It describes how a story was used to introduce a local history unit, and how we followed it up. To begin, we sat the children on the carpet and told them John Hooker's story about...
    Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

  • Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

      Reference guide
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

  • Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten

      Exemplar
    This exemplar outlines a lesson John Fines taught to a class of Year 3 children. He was visiting them for the first time to do some drama work. The children already knew a great deal about the Ancient Egyptians and were also used to learning through drama. John writes:After a...
    Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten

  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design

      Lesson Resources
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering History, Science and Literacy. See also Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can enable children to investigate, observe, wonder, record and create. The suggested activities in this section...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design

  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt

  • Victorian Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Victorian era | Questions | Industrial revolution | Social reforms | Empire | Teaching the Victorians | Citizenship | Victorian achievements | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and...
    Victorian Britain: a brief history

  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

  • Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

      Reference
    The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...
    Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

  • Changes within Living Memory

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Overview  Post-1930s Britain has been transformed by a technological revolution...
    Changes within Living Memory

  • Aztec Experience

      Lesson Plan
    Take a holiday with the Aztecs! Children design holiday brochures. History providing a context for literacy. Demonstration and modelling of the holiday brochure genre, and the transfer of understanding of the generic form into an historical context. Pupils produced their own brochures giving information about life in the Aztec capital,...
    Aztec Experience

  • Olympic Games

      Lesson Plan
    This was the fourth lesson in a ten-week unit about the ancient Greeks. We had already looked at Homer's Iliad, examining Greek ideas about heroes and roles; investigated the evidence for the Trojan War; and used topic books to identify and classify the main features of ancient Greek life. Throughout...
    Olympic Games

  • Taunton Deane Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson (geoff.bisson51@gmail.com), tel. 01823 353749 All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site. Associate Membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national...
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme

  • Children in the Second World War

      Lesson Plan
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today These lessons with Year 6 children at a voluntary-aided primary...
    Children in the Second World War

  • Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

      Teaching History article
    Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
    Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

  • Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

      Guide to KS2-KS3 Transition
    Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources on Transition KS2-KS3 please see: Transition KS2–KS3 (Primary History article, 2021) Smooth Transitions: Key Stage 2 to 3 (Primary History article, 2020) Transition Key Stage 2 and 3 (Primary History article, 2016) Before 1066 & All That: Transition between...
    Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

  • Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Following the publication of the QCA guide ‘Citizenship and PSHE at KS1 & 2’ (QCA:2000) which identified history as being a suitable vehicle for the teaching of the non-statutory citizenship framework in primary schools, and...
    Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians