This guidance is based on Jamie Byrom’s workshop at the 2012 SHP Conference: I’ve started so I’ll finish. Jamie writes… A lot of attention is now given in schools to the way we start and finish lessons. The language of “starters” and “plenaries” is now almost universally embedded into planning sheets and teachers’ minds. The guidance certainly involve activities that...
Read More »Lesley Ann McDermott shared a novel revision strategy in the TeachMeet session at the 2012 SHP Conference. Lesley Ann uses Spin Powerpoints to make revision sessions more challenge, fun and engaging. Check out her Spin Powerpoint based on crime and punishment past questions in Resource 1. (Press ‘S’ to stop the spin!). In Resource 2 Lesley Ann suggests ideas for other things that you could include...
Read More »Using the example of the Wars of the Roses,Ian Dawson discusses the use of timelines and time-stories to develop an overview of the content of a new module. He argues that an overview is vital because it creates confidence, it creates a context and it starts to give a module a unity. See this discussion on Ian’s free website.
Read More »Two items by Ian Dawson on Teaching about the Industrial Revolution: • What would we like students to remember about it? More … • What kinds of stories should we tell about it? More … This guidance and the accompanying outline activities are on Thinking History, Ian’s free website.
Read More »Teaching to develop chronological knowledge and understanding can appear both a vague and a complex task, much less straightforward than teaching about a historical individual, topic or period. So one aim of these brief notes, by Ian Dawson, is to be helpful and reassuring. Children will learn most effectively if their school has undertaken long-term planning of work on chronology across KS1 and K...
Read More »This unit for Upper Key Stage 2 pupils, written by Ann Moore, can be used either as an aspect or theme of British history that extends pupils knowledge beyond 1006, or as a Local Study. It incorporates some useful cross curricular links with popular WW2 literature, such as ‘Carrie’s War’ and Anne Frank’s Diary. Download the Resource Download the resource [ click here ]
Read More »‘Sally’s Special History Lesson‘ introduces Key Stage 1 children in a ‘fun way’ to the historical vocabulary and the types of sources that they will be using in their enquiry about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality. This activity helps teachers to plan and prepare this subject content, through the medium of a story (written and illustrated by...
Read More »This useful ‘aide memoire’ put together by Ann Moore, allows teachers to engage their pupils in observing a picture or artefact more closely than if they were asked general questions. Over time, children will begin to ask and answer these questions themselves Download the Resource Download the resource [ click here ] Historical Questions to ask about Pictures and Photographs What can you can see i...
Read More »This table, put together by Ann Moore, gives teachers an ‘at a glance’ overview of what programmes of study (now called subject matter) remain the same in the revised National Curriculum for primary schools what subject matter has changed, or no longer needs to be taught and what subject matter is new. It also offers brief suggestions on how some of the old programmes of study can be used to teac...
Read More »An HMI view on ‘Securing Outstanding Leadership in History’ from Michael Maddison (HMI). Michael is Ofsted’s Specialist Adviser for History. See the Plenary PowerPoint
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