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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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