Category: historical significance

GCSE and A level, historical significance, KS3, speaking and listening, teaching and learning ideas

Rethinking the historical significance of Napoleon – the case for an interdisciplinary approach

In this blogpost Gemma Hargraves, Deputy Headteacher at The Crypt School, Gloucester, shares some thoughts about how to use an interdisciplinary approach to engage students with historical significance and to encourage them to develop informed and robust opinions about the past. Napoleon’s life and legacy is taught at various curriculum stages. For example sometimes it is taught in a year 8 scheme of work on … Continue reading Rethinking the historical significance of Napoleon – the case for an interdisciplinary approach

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CPD, curriculum and planning, diversity and inclusion, historical interpretations, historical significance, KS3, subject leadership

Decolonisation in the history classroom: wider perspectives and more critical questions

Thank you to Sarah Jackson, Head of Department at Sawston Village College in Cambridgeshire for this blogpost. Sarah has been imbibing the wealth of CPD on offer to history teachers. Here she explains how this has shaped her thinking, her experience of trying out ideas to reveal the constructed nature of the curriculum with her own pupils, and her current thinking about best ways forward … Continue reading Decolonisation in the history classroom: wider perspectives and more critical questions

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