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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...

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...

It is not always easy to find detailed references to history in recent school reports despite the fact that history...

Just when you thought you knew all there was to teach about Stonehenge suddenly a major discovery turns much of...

To prevent retrieval activities simply resembling a random fact pub quiz  consider using the following , which I’m sure many...

This list is by no means exhaustive nor is it linked to just one key stage. You can think of...

No contrived acronym here or implied order of priority just making sure you do the right things as well as...

From time to time, its worth reminding ourselves of what OFSTED chooses to comment on when reporting its findings from...

At both KS1 and KS2 it would be good to focus on one individual and see the extent to which...

This thinking skills task has been designed to encourage pupils to work out plausible answers to the puzzling question, one...

Many of you teaching Ancient Egypt in depth as part of a broader topic on ancient civilizations will , no...

I have written on this topic before, but there are always new and fresh titles appearing that necessitate an update....

You are learning about Amelia because she was a very famous American woman who learned how to fly and then...

Are you planning to teach about the Olympic games which are coming to Paris in July 2024? If so you...

You might be interested in a brand-new planner and lessons on Amelia Earhart which is now being uploaded. Why is...

This introductory session starts with firing pupils’ curiosity via a slow reveal in which pupils build a picture of her...

Having listened to an illustrated description of Amelia’s early life, pupils have to select suitable adjectives to describe her character...

A relatively short session exploring Amelia’s motivation starts with pupils drawing on their prior knowledge to consider why she took...

Using the living graph technique pupils sequence the events of Amelia’s flying career and then physically create points on a...

In this session pupils get to work as history detectives matching clues within sources to statements historians have made about...

Working towards the end goal of producing a book cover to encapsulate the key details of Amelia’s achievements, pupils learn,...

Over the course of the last few months we have been fielding a number of questions from understandably anxious subject...

1. DON’T assume that OFSTED has an expectation of what constitutes schemes of work: they don’t I mention this because...