History curriculum
Section outline
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A high-quality history curriculum enables pupils to develop secure knowledge of the past while learning how historians investigate and interpret evidence to make claims and construct accounts. Effective curriculum design carefully sequences substantive and disciplinary knowledge, develops disciplinary thinking over time, and ensures that all pupils can access and succeed in the subject.
This section provides guidance, research and practical resources to support curriculum planning from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4. It includes materials on curriculum design, progression, diversity and representation, local history, national curriculum requirements, qualifications, assessment standards and curriculum planning
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Resources to add to this section:
- Planning a high-quality inclusive history curriculum
- Securing substantive knowledge.
- Developing disciplinary thinking
- Progression in historical knowledge and concepts
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Resources to add to this section:
- Reflecting the diversity of Britain’s past
- Teaching British Black and Asian histories.
- Why local history matters
- Studying history through local contexts
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Resources to add to this section:
- Teaching climate change and sustainable futures through the history curriculum
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Key Stage 3
National Curriculum for History
Key Stage 4
GCSE Specifications
- AQA
- Pearson Edexcel
- OCR A
- OCR B (Schools History Project)
- WJEC Eduqas
Assessment Standards