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Great new activity on Florence Nightingale- Dear Producer

One of the great challenges of teaching KS1 history is to avoid the pitfall of turning history into just stories from the past. Of course we...

KS1 pupils’ work on Great Fire and Florence Nightingale assessed

You have told us that you need more help on assessment at KS1. So we have now gone beyond principles, suggestions, actual tasks and mark schemes to assessing actual pieces of work. You may already...

2 fun facts for pupils studying Florence Nightingale at KS1 and 2 key learning points

Just thought these two fun facts might interest your pupils, building on infants' interest in animals rather than death rates from dysentery! So the two facts are: 1. As a child, Florence already showed an interest in...

Keeping up-to-date with your teaching of Victorian Britain at KS2

We often talk to children about the benefits that brought so many people into industrial towns in the first half of the nineteenth century. But we probably need to stress more, as a recent study...

Using simple ‘how plausible’ strategy for high-intensity thinking from KS2 to A level

Sometimes the simplest ideas have the most impact, probably because we don’t over-complicate. Looking for a way of getting students to think for themselves, rather than slavishly follow the ideas listed in the textbook, I...

What OFSTED says about primary history: 3 things you need to know

OFSTED's views on primary history are difficult to find. The last Lead Inspector for history offered these three opinions before he left OFSTED, never to be replaced. A. Too often in primary schools, history is submerged...

Top 5 features of expert history teaching at KS1

Top five features of expert teaching at KS1

The key is challenge. Only by you setting high expectations will you be able to lift pupils’ aspirations so they don’t just settle for the best they...

Primary history opinion

Great new activity on Florence Nightingale- Dear Producer

KS1 pupils’ work on Great Fire and Florence Nightingale assessed

2 fun facts for pupils studying Florence Nightingale at KS1 and 2 key learning points

Keeping up-to-date with your teaching of Victorian Britain at KS2

Using simple ‘how plausible’ strategy for high-intensity thinking from KS2 to A level

What OFSTED says about primary history: 3 things you need to know

Top 5 features of expert history teaching at KS1

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