Opinion On History Teaching and Education
The state of primary history 25 years on
BookmarkOne of the drawbacks of being a historian is you just can’t help yourself when it comes to looking at…
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Time to drop insanity of a 3 year GCSE history course
BookmarkOf all the phases of history education pupils now go through, KS4 is by far the least appealing. So why…
Read MoreOFSTED’s sensible approach to progression
BookmarkOFSTED’s 2019 draft Framework for Inspection is full of very welcome comments about the central importance of having a high-quality…
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Ignorant minister Nick Gibb says history teachers don’t use textbooks
BookmarkNick Gibb climbed on his hobby horse again this week and criticised teachers for not using textbooks more. The replacement…
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Gove’s reply to my letter criticising his inane proposals for NC history,sent via my MP
BookmarkYou might be interested in Gove’s response to my criticism of the new NC proposals, sent via my local MP….
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Time for sweeping change in history assessment at KS3, GCSE and A level is NOW.
BookmarkWhen so much time has been spent on measuring pupils’ progress in KS3 using spurious data derived from blunt assessment…
Read MoreWritten by Neil Thompson
All content on Keystage history is written and quality assured by Neil Thompson, a former history teacher, county history adviser and Ofsted inspector with more than 30 years’ experience in history education.