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

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...

I have often thought that we don’t always invest as much time in considering the final product of a unit’s...

In this topic you will learn why Britain went to war and was threatened with invasion by Hitler’s Germany during...

Making sure you don’t miss out on this year’s  important anniversaries in your history teaching Grace Darling – KS1 4...

You are studying the Shang dynasty because it was the first Chinese civilization in ancient times and one for which...

Pupils solve problems when they study mathematics. They solve problems in science lessons. So why not in history? Perhaps it’s...

In this topic you are going to find out about three of the most famous queens that each ruled this...

This active and entertaining first session aims to provide pupils with a clear chronological overview of the last 500 years...