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Additional web-based support from QCA/DfES

  • National Curriculum Online
    (www.nc.uk.net/servlets/Subjects?Subject=Hi)
    National Curriculum Online provides direct links, using key words, to the QCA/DfES schemes of work and other on-line resources relevant to each part of the programme of study. The history home page also provides access to all other web based history support material produced by QCA.
  • Education for sustainable development
    (www.nc.uk.net/esd)
    The ESD web site includes information on: what education for sustainable development is about; requirements and opportunities for ESD across all subjects in the national curriculum; case studies of developing practice in ESD across the full range of subjects and contexts; and guidance on, and case studies of, the management of school development of ESD.
  • Schemes of work for history (key stages 1,2 and 3)
    (www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes3)
    The history schemes of work are on the DfES Standards website.
  • A scheme of work for key stages 1, 2, 3 and 4: Citizenship
    (www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes3)
    The citizenship schemes of work for key stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 (details under QCA publications) are on the DfES Standards website. The key stage 3 scheme of work includes a subject leaflet Opportunities for developing citizenship through history at key stage 3, which has been written to provide a starting point for schools to discuss the links between citizenship and history.
    (www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/citizenship/?view=Subject+leaflets)
    Further information and guidance to support the teaching of citizenship in all the key stages is also available at www.dfes.gov.uk/citizenship.
  • Information for parents about the history national curriculum
    (The Learning Journey)
  • Information about what history is all about in key stage 1, with some useful teaching tips for parents.
    (www.dfes.gov.uk/parents/learnjourn/index_ks1.cfm?ver=graph&subject=hi)
  • Information about what history is all about in key stage 2, with some useful teaching tips for parents.
    (www.dfes.gov.uk/parents/learnjourn/index_ks2.cfm?ver=graph&subject=hi)
  • Information about what history is all about in key stage 3, with some useful teaching tips for parents.
    (www.dfes.gov.uk/parents/learnjourn/index_ks3.cfm?ver=graph&subject=hi)
  • One leaflet on -- People in the Past has been produced for key stage 1 history. Four leaflets -- on the Romans, the Vikings, the Tudors and the Victorians have been produced for key stage 2 history. These are on the DfES Parents' website. (www.dfes.gov.uk/parents/discover/index.cfm)
 
History matters
* Introduction
* It worked for me
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New developments in history

 
- Introduction
 
- Curriculum guidance materials from QCA
 
- New qualifications
   
- Additional web-based support from QCA/DfES
* Promoting the subject
* Careers in history
* Key stages 2/3 transfer
* Subject associations and other organisations
 

 

 
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