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The Anglo-Saxons were people who came from parts of modern-day Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands to settle in Britain after...

Welcome to this special edition of the newsletter devoted to the thorny issue of assessment. You will also find the...

You are learning about the Tudors as it was a period of history that helped to shape the Britain we...

Source: Historical Association (membership required) Francis Leneghan is Professor of Old English at the University of Oxford. In this article...

You are learning about castles because they are one of the most fascinating buildings that have been there for hundreds...

In a recently-published study by the Council of Europe entitled “Quality history in the 21st century” a number of key...

The main focus of this topic is the exploration of the past beyond living memory through a topic that is...

Having elicited pupils’ initial knowledge of castles from books film and family visits, pupils are asked to explore a number...

This session is straightforward in that pupils are introduced via a short video to a variety of reasons which not...

Rather than going through all the different methods used chronologically, this really fun session focuses on one year and casts...

This five-part lesson starts with pupils in role as workers for company charged with recreating what a medieval castle would...

This lesson starts with encouraging pupils to spot differences between 3 castles to give them confidence before working in groups...

Pupils have to deduce from a range of visual clues of castles they will see around them, the uses to...

This task is provisional and adopts a different approach to the assessment task on the site you might have tried...

Focus: Significance This simple-to-administer, uncomplicated task uses a contemporary image to stimulate pupils to think about Mary Anning’s long-term significance....

In addition to reading the OFSTED Lead Inspectors’ reports which are available online one of the ways of getting a...

Focus: Interpretations Y1 Pupils compare contrasting images of Graces’ rescue and try to explain how and why they are different....

Focus: similarity and difference and change Assessing Year 1 children’s understanding of how different going for a swim in the...

Focus: Causation Using one large colour image as a stimulus pupils have to draw on their detailed understanding of the...

Focus: characteristic features of period & using sources Y2 Using just one image which contains lots of clues, pupils have...

Focus : Using sources Pupils have to identify key features from a visual source to answer a question regarding the...

Rosa Parks was an important black woman who wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself when she was treated unfairly....

You are learning about Mary Anning because she became very famous at a very young age. She was an expert...

Very short diagnostic assessment in which pupils are the teachers. They have to correct a pupil’s description of the Bronze...

In this brief diagnostic assessment task , supported by 4 pictorial clues,  pupils are asked to show if they understand...

If any of you were still waiting for the promised new model history curriculum which was due to appear by...

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...