Upcoming History Courses
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Visit our Learning Zone and search to book on any of the courses below using the course title or suggested keywords.
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The training delivery model for individual courses is identified in the course titles on the Learning Zone as follows:
Webinar – virtual training via Microsoft Teams
Blended – courses that are a mixture of virtual and face to face training
No categorisation – venue based trainingFor any queries regarding our training offer, please contact hias.training@hants.gov.uk
For any course booking queries, please contact cs.learninganddevelopment@hants.gov.uk
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Take a look at the Primary History learning opportunities available to book:
To search for a specific course, type the course title or keywords in the 'Find Learning' box.
Autumn Term 2026
Date: 5 November 2026
Price: Sub £55 / SLA £40 / Full £66
Keyword Search: History Resources
Using Resources in your Primary History Curriculum (Webinar)
Working with the HIAS history packs, plans and free resources for history, Justine Ball and Dawn Eggleton will explore what is available to help you plan high quality history in your school, drawing on the research for inclusion and teaching for all groups in the Curriculum and Assessment review and the Ofsted 2025 framework.
This webinar will cover:
· reflections on national requirements for inclusion in the curriculum in the Curriculum Review and Ofsted framework and how that can be applied in history
· exploring the resources available to use for planning history and using it to embed best practice
· evaluating your current history curriculum and planning for the future
· formulating an action plan going forward.
Delegates should bring their history planning and units from their school with them to think through during the webinar.
Suitable for new and current history leaders and for any member of teaching staff in your school.
Date: 12 November 2026
Price: Sub £55 / SLA £40 / Full £66
Keyword Search: Adapting Resources
Adapting Resources for all in your Primary History Curriculum (particularly SEND and Disadvantaged Groups) (Webinar)
This webinar will cover:
· reflections on national requirements for SEND, disadvantaged groups and teaching available for all groups and how this relates to history
· exploring how to adapt history resources to make the history curriculum accessible for all
· evaluating your current history curriculum and planning for the future
· formulating your action plan going forward.
Delegates should bring their history planning and units from their school with them to think through during the webinar.
Suitable for new and current history leaders and for any member of teaching staff in your school.
Date: 25 November 2026
Price: Sub £175 / SLA £110 / Full £210
Keyword Search: Leading History
Leading History Successfully for New History Leaders 26-27
A course designed for new primary history subject leaders and those who would like to build their confidence in the planning and teaching of history with regard to best practice and National Curriculum requirements for history.
This course will prepare you to:
· lead and manage history confidently across your school
· ensure that you are prepared for the key challenges of the Ofsted framework
· develop your history curriculum with clear ‘intention’ that promotes progression, ensuring ‘impact’ and prepares children for the next phase of their education
· ensure you know what good practice looks like in history teaching
· explain to your colleagues how to ‘implement’ the history curriculum through the six-step approach to historical enquiry
· develop innovative and thoughtful strategies for assessment.
Date: 3 December 2026
Price: Sub £55 / SLA £40 / Full £66
Keyword Search: Diverse History
Practical Examples of Diverse History Stories ready for use in your Primary History Curriculum (Webinar)
Following on from the success of Minnie Moore’s diversity webinar in 2025, this webinar draws on the thinking behind diversity in the history curriculum and offers a range of examples across the statutory requirements of the history National Curriculum.
This webinar will cover:
· a summary of best practice to consider when embedding diverse examples throughout your primary history curriculum
· exploring specific practical examples for each of the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum, led by HIAS and the history steering group
· evaluating your current history curriculum and planning for the future
· formulating your action plan going forward.
Delegates should bring their history planning and units from their school with them to think through during the webinar.
Suitable for new and current history leaders or any teaching staff looking for ideas for teaching history.
Spring Term 2027
Dates:
22 February 2027 - Virtual
23 February 2027 - Royal Marines Experience, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Price: Sub £85 / SLA £50 / Full £102
Keyword Search: Spring History
Spring 26-27 Primary History Network
Networks designed for primary history subject leaders who would value reviewing their planning, teaching and assessment of history, reviewing the Ofsted requirements, and the proposals for teaching within the new National Curriculum framework.
This course will prepare you to:
· develop your vision for history in your school
· gather inspiring and creative ideas for leading and managing the teaching of outstanding history
· share and discuss key issues relevant to teaching history in the classroom
· discover inspiring and creative ideas for teaching outstanding history
· plan to meet the requirements of the new NC framework.
Summer Term 2027
Dates:
22 June 2027 - TBC (face to face)
23 June 2027 - Virtual
Price: Sub £85 / SLA £50 / Full £102
Keyword Search: Summer History
Summer 26-27 Primary History Network
Networks designed for primary history subject leaders who would value reviewing their planning, teaching and assessment of history, reviewing the Ofsted requirements, and the proposals for teaching within the new National Curriculum framework.
This course will prepare you to:
· develop your vision for history in your school
· gather inspiring and creative ideas for leading and managing the teaching of outstanding history
· share and discuss key issues relevant to teaching history in the classroom
· discover inspiring and creative ideas for teaching outstanding history
· plan to meet the requirements of the new NC framework.
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Take a look at the Secondary History learning opportunities available to book:
To search for a specific course, type the course title or keywords in the 'Find Learning' box.
Autumn Term 2026
Dates:
8 December 2026, 25 January, 1 March, 10 June and 7 July 2027
Price: Sub £225 / SLA £200 / Full £250
Keyword Search:
TIED History ProjectSecondary TIED History Project 2027 (Blended)
Raising attainment today. Preventing attainment gaps tomorrow.
A five-session collaborative enquiry programme for history departments. Explore how to improve achievement, participation and belonging for disadvantaged history pupils at the critical points in a young person secondary journey when research shows intervention can have the greatest impact - Years 7, 10 and 11. Use evidence-informed practice, pupil voice, data and cross-school collaboration to tackle the stubborn disadvantaged gap in history at your school.
Who should attend?
· History leaders and aspiring leaders.
· History teachers responsible for disadvantaged pupils.
Why join?· Develop a deeper understanding of disadvantage in history.
· Narrow the GCSE attainment gap for disadvantaged students.
· Prevent the disadvantage gap growing from Year 7.
· Identify barriers and opportunities using data, research and pupil voice.
· Test and refine approaches that improve belonging, engagement and success from Year 7.
· Work with history leaders across Hampshire.
· Strengthen departmental improvement planning.
Date: 18 November 2026
Price: Sub £60 / SLA £45 / Full £72
Keyword Search: Autumn Secondary History
Autumn - 26-27 Secondary History Network (Webinar)
History GCSE 2027: Raising Achievement, Closing Gaps
The primary aims of the subject network meetings are to:
· Ensure a clear understanding of the national picture and its application in local and school contexts.
· Support effective subject leadership as appropriate to each school’s individual context.
· Develop skills, expertise and capacity within school subject leaders and their teams through quality strategic CPD and the sharing of good practice.
· Deepen understanding of subject specific pedagogy and knowledge that underpins good progress and attainment for ALL pupils.
· Facilitate school to school networking and develop strength across the system.
Programme:
· Understanding the 2026 History results. National and local trends.
· Closing gaps and improving outcomes for high prior attainers.
· Improving exam performance. Exam board insights on summer exams.
· Emerging themes and proposals from the Curriculum Review.
Networking focus: Discussion on priorities for improving outcomes in 2026-27 and responding to the National Curriculum history curriculum proposals.
Spring Term 2027
Date: 24 February 2027
Price: Sub £60 / SLA £45 / Full £72
Keyword Search: Spring Secondary History
Spring - 26-27 Secondary History Network (Webinar)
Building Powerful Historical Thinking
The primary aims of the subject network meetings are to:
· Ensure a clear understanding of the national picture and its application in local and school contexts.
· Support effective subject leadership as appropriate to each school’s individual context.
· Develop skills, expertise and capacity within school subject leaders and their teams through quality strategic CPD and the sharing of good practice.
· Deepen understanding of subject specific pedagogy and knowledge that underpins good progress and attainment for ALL pupils.
· Facilitate school to school networking and develop strength across the system.
Programme:
· History subject updates.
· Preparing for curriculum reform.
· Developing stronger disciplinary thinking: building schemas through enquiry.
· Improving extended writing from KS3 to KS4: helping pupils write like historians.
Networking focus: Examples of effective practice from Hampshire schools.