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What can you do at KS3 to make your history curriculum more representative?

In a recent article for the Historical Association ( HA news- Autumn 2020) Jake Subryan Richards offers his advice: ”…

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Curriculum models at key stage 3

By now, most of you will have taught your new KS3 curriculum for over four years.  It might seem a…

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Long-term planning in history at Key Stage 3

Long-term planning must be much more than listing the topics to be covered.  It must identify the main depth studies…

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KS3 History
Medium term planning in history at Key Stage 3

It is rare now to find history departments who do not use key questions to plan their history work/enquiries. The…

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KS3 History
Short-term planning in history at Key Stage 3

My view about short-term planning at Key Stage 3 is simple; keep it short. If you are following a detailed…

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Creativity in History at Key Stage 3

You will find examples of creativity in most of the Outstanding  Lessons on the site. Often these are the product…

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Thinking Skills in history at Key Stage 3

Although many aspects of the Key Stage 3 strategy have not necessarily placed the emphasis where I would have liked…

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KS3 History
ICT in the KS3 history curriculum

It has always difficult to keep this section of the site totally up-to-date. This is not only because of the…

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KS3 History
What is history?

This is such an enormous topic and would fill the complete site. All I want to do is to offer…

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KS3 History
Literacy and history at Key Stage 3

In recent years there has been a much stronger emphasis in lesson observations on how well particular groups of pupils…

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Rationale for your Key Stage 3 history curriculum

The clever people at OneBigHistoryDepartment have come up with a list of questions to ask yourself about your KS3 history…

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Numeracy in history at Key Stage 3

History’s contribution to numeracy needs to be really carefully thought out or we could waste an awful lot of valuable…

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