One of the features of deep dive subject inspections is that the two hardest areas of a primary history leader’s role are in danger of being painfully exposed.
One is the thorny issue of progression. How do you plan to make the work harder and not just different as pupils move through the school. How do pupils deepen and broaden their knowledge base? It is not enough to say they do new topics. How do they make sense of these in relation to what they already know. If we don’t revisit learned content it is in danger of being forgotten and pupils will not be able to build a mental map of the past. The other side of progression is the notion of deepening awareness of how history is written and a growing understanding of what it means to get better at history: better at understanding why things happened,