History

=History=

Welcome to the History page. We aim to collect together information, advice and ideas to help Wandsworth primary teachers teach history in creative, interesting and enjoyable ways.
The History Development Group is facilitated by Juliet Desailly. ====First a **WARNING:** The draft history curriculum received huge press coverage, the final curriculum not nearly so much. The final curriculum is VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE DRAFT. Many teachers are still convinced that things they read about the draft are what they have to do. If you are a history co-ordinator make sure staff know the facts not the myths! Read what is actually written in the curriculum and check out our FAQs which unpick some of the rumours and misinformation.====

Frequently asked questions. All you want to know about planning and teaching the new History Curriculum!


===Progression in history skills. This chart identifies key skills in historical learning and understanding and breaks down the progression in these skills across key stages. It is a useful basis for assessment of children's learning:===

===This Checklist summarises __very__ briefly the Key Skills of learning to be a historian and how they relate to the content of the curriculum. It might help co-ordinators and teachers to map what skills they are teaching and are being developed across the school year and different study units and to make sure they are all being covered.===

__Resources__
===We have tried to collect together firstly a list of useful websites, books, visitors and places to visit and some outline medium term planning on the study units to help get people started. These are not necessarily the finished article or comprehensive but will hopefully provide some ideas and talking points. It would be very good to add to these and add individual lesson plans as teachers get to grips with teaching the new curriculum. If you would like to contribute a medium term plan or plan of a particularly successful lesson or series of lessons please send them to: teachers@julietdesailly.co.uk.===