Mr T 4 days ago 9 min A purposeful timeline display in and across Key Stage 2 Setting the scene: Chronology is a dominant feature of the primary National Curriculum for history (NC2014). There is a clear link from O...
Mr T Mar 17, 2020 3 min Key Knowledge and Concepts - The Romans Context: This topic is taught to my Year 3 class and is the second history topic of the year, which follows on from the Stone Age to Iron...
Mr T Sep 28, 2019 6 min The Stone Age to Iron Age - My teaching approach Before the topic begins: It's really important to consider what the children's experience of history is from their previous topics in sch...
Mr T Jul 14, 2019 4 min Historical Writing Without Text Types! Part 2 This is an update on the previous blog on this subject, which can be seen at this link, and aims to work alongside it. Someone said to me...
Mr T Jul 2, 2019 4 min Historical Writing Without Text Types! Part 1 Where did this start? The original idea for this came when I was teaching in Year 6 in 2016-17. We were reviewing the KS2 TAF for writing...
Mr T Jun 4, 2019 2 min D-Day 75th Anniversary This map really highlights the sheer scale of the operation involved in D-Day itself. The number of men involved on both sides of the cha...
Mr T Jun 2, 2019 2 min One small step for man... On July 24th, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the Moon. Neil Armstrong uttered those immortal words and the world was changed fo...
Mr T May 20, 2019 1 min Coming Soon... The aim of this blog is going to be to keep people up to date with pertinent dates and anniversaries. It will also offer ideas that could...