This website is a resource for teachers of history in primary and secondary schools
and others in the history education community. It consists of three types of resource:

• Text summaries of five training sessions for primary and secondary teachers involved in this project, designed to help raise standards in Year 6 history lessons at the end of Key Stage 2 as preparation for Key Stage 3. The summaries incorporate video clips and training resources.
   

• Nine schemes of work for Year 6 history lessons written collaboratively in clusters by groups of primary and secondary teachers. The schemes of work incorporate video clips of teaching, resources, links and examples of pupils’ work.
   

• A final report summarising the main findings of the project.

What Are The Aims Of The Project?

• To raise standards in Year 6 history lessons at the end of Key Stage 2 as preparation for Key Stage 3 history.
   

• To challenge the level of work undertaken in some Key Stage 3 history classrooms by demonstrating what Year 6 pupils are capable of achieving.
   

• To spread the best practice of Key Stage 3 history in the areas of historical interpretation; use of ICT and application of literacy to Key Stage 2 history.
   

• To produce and disseminate nine exemplary schemes of work for use in Year 6 history lessons by either primary or secondary teachers (or as a combination of both teaching together).
   

• To produce summaries of the training sessions, which inspired the schemes of work, for dissemination.