Practical guidance and carefully selected resources to help you evaluate, lead and improve history across your school.
Your professional vade mecum: concise support for the immediate task, linked to the fuller Keystage history guidance whenever you need greater depth.
Start with your Curriculum Health Check
Identify what is working well, uncover the areas that need attention and establish sensible priorities for improvement.
What do you need help with?
Choose an area to find focused guidance and practical next steps.
Curriculum Design
Build a coherent, ambitious and well-sequenced history curriculum.
Explore Curriculum Design →Assessment & Progression
Find out what pupils have learned and how their historical understanding is developing.
Explore Assessment & Progression →Monitoring & Evaluation
Use proportionate evidence to understand the quality of history across your school.
Explore Monitoring & Evaluation →Staff Development & CPD
Help non-specialist teachers develop the knowledge and confidence to teach history well.
Explore Staff Development →Development Planning
Turn evaluation into focused priorities, manageable actions and measurable improvement.
Explore Development Planning →SLT, Governors & Inspection
Explain the quality, intent and impact of your history curriculum with confidence.
Explore Leadership & Inspection →New to leading history?
Follow a clear four-week pathway to understand your starting point, identify priorities and create your first action plan.