Mr T Apr 30 6 min A Purposeful Timeline in Key Stage 1 Building on the previous blog post on KS2 chronology displays, here is what precedes it.
Mr T Feb 28 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...
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...
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...
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...
