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This task asks pupils to consider consequences of the disaster and changes over time arising from it Assessment task and...

Focus: Change and significance This task offers pupils 3 carefully chose images to support their understanding of the achievements of...

Key Elements: ideas, attitudes and beliefs This assessment tasks focuses on a single picture.   Pupils are asked how the image...

This is a Year 6 task which focuses on Key Element 2a : characteristic features of life for men women...

Focus: significance and change Using 3 images to help you, what were the most important changes that took place in...

Using two contrasting illustrations to help them, pupils have to explain why life in 10th century Baghdad was so significant....

Focus skill/concept: Understanding characteristic period features and cultural diversity Using 3 images pupils are set the task to explain what...

Focus: interpretations Another Year 4 task in which pupils have to compare two unseen illustrations from books about Boudicca. Having...

Focus: causation Short written explanation or, for some, the completion of two speech bubbles. What did the Romans / Claudius...

Assessing pupils’ understanding of the legacy of the Roman Empire on life in Britain This task is designed to elicit...

Focus: sequencing This Y3/4 task is highly visual and entails simple sequencing of unseen images followed by reason why changes...

Focus: evaluation of sources Children work on an unseen portrait after the teacher has read out the caption which explains...

Pupils are given artist’s impression of a typical Victorian scene which they have never seen before. They have to identify...

Focus: historical interpretation After looking at similarity and difference between two depictions of the Vikings, pupils then offer reasons why...

Focus: characteristic features of life for men, women and children Once again based on a very detailed and colourful artists’...

The children are given the task sheet containing three pictures and the question. Each has been included for a particular...

Focus concept: Making deductions/ similarity and difference This task is designed to be non-threatening and to be carried out in...

Focus concept: Causation The first task serves as a more gentle introduction to the idea of cause by looking at...

Target concepts:  characteristic features of the period and significance This task is designed to elicit pupils’ understanding of the contribution...

I’ve just finished watching one of the more powerful of the Historical Association’s podcasts on the subject of story telling...

1. Ensure all topics are linked and logically sequenced At the planning stage make sure all topics are carefully linked...

You are learning about Amy Johnson because she was a very famous British pilot who flew her plane, called Jason,...

You are learning about old toys to help you to understand the difference between toys people played with in the...

1. A general history of the community Advantages Can build a sense of place enhancing pupils’ awareness of how the...

Is there a right order for sequencing KS2 topics? Let’s start with a reality check. No research exists to show...

Congratulations on completing your unit on Ancient Egypt! Now that you’ve explored this incredible ancient civilization, it’s time to put...

OFSTED’s recent report ( 2023) highlighted the following 5 key messages about assessment in primary history. Over the next few...

September is always a good time to think through what you should be doing as history leader now that you’ve...

Welcome back to a new term, a new government and new academic year of exciting developments here at Keystage history....

You are studying this topic so that you realise that a thousand years ago Baghdad was the largest city in...