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The Primary Education Journal of the Historical Association Issue 87 / Spring 2021 The primary education journal of the Historical Association The revised EYFS Framework – exploring ‘Past and Present’ How did a volcano affect life in the Bronze Age? Exploring the spices of the east: how curry got to our table Ancient Sumer: the cradle of civilisation ‘I have got to stop Mrs Jackson’s family arguing’: developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback Fifty years ago we lost the need to know our twelve times tables Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry Belmont’s evacuee children: a local history project Ofsted and primary history One of my favourite history places – Eyam CENTRE SPREAD DOUBLE SIDED PULL-OUT POSTER ‘Twelve pennies make a shilling; twenty shillings make a pound’ Could you manage old money? Examples of picture books New: webinar recording offer for corporate members Corporate membership offers a comprehensive package of support. It delivers all the benefits of individual membership plus an enhanced tier of resources, CPD access and accreditation in order to boost the development of your teaching staff and delivery of your whole-school history provision*. We’re pleased to introduce a NEW benefit for corporate members – the ability to register for a free webinar recording of your choice each academic year, representing a saving of up to £50. Visit www.history.org.uk/go/corpwebinar21 for details The latest offer for corporate members is just one of a host of exclusive benefits for school members including: P A bank of resources for you and up to 11 other teaching staff. P New and exclusive resources: subject leader area guides. P Free and discounted CPD for you and up to 11 colleagues. P Exclusive access to our free corporate webinar recordings. P Eligibility for the HA Quality Mark. All from as little as £72 per year – less than £1.40 per week. To upgrade email [email protected] or call 0300 100 0223 * Please note that corporate primary membership is available only to schools. If you are a training provider, university or other type of organisation please contact us to discuss bespoke membership packages available. Issue 87 Spring 2021 REGULARS ARTICLES Editorial 04 HA Primary News 05 HA Update 06 08 The revised EYFS Framework – exploring ‘Past and Present’ Helen Crawford History in the news 10 Cover image Lyre of a Bull’s Head from Queen Pu-Abi’s tomb as displayed in the CENTRE SPREAD British Museum. 12 How did a volcano affect life in the Bronze Age? DOUBLE SIDED Alf Wilkinson PULL-OUT POSTER ‘Twelve pennies make a 14 Exploring the spices of the east: how curry got to shilling; twenty shillings our table make a pound’ Could you Karin Doull manage old money? Examples of picture books 19 Ancient Sumer: the cradle of civilisation Susie Townsend 24 ‘I have got to stop Mrs Jackson’s family arguing’: developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo- Saxons and Vikings Carol Jackson and Darius Jackson 28 Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback Tim Lomas 32 Fifty years ago we lost the need to know our twelve times tables Karin Doull in this issue 34 Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry Kate Thomson and Tracey Wire 39 Belmont’s evacuee children: a local history project George Skinner and Judith Peel PEFC Certified This product is 46 Ofsted and primary history from sustainably managed forests and Tim Jenner controlled sources PEFC/16-33-254 www.pefc.org One of my favourite history places – Eyam 48 The Historical Association Penelope Harnett 59a Kennington Park Road London SE11 4JH Telephone: 020 7735 3901 Fax: 020 7582 4989 www.history.org.uk PRESIDENT Professor Peter Mandler EDITORIAL GROUP Letters, articles and other contributions to the Suggestions and comments are very welcome and DEPUTY PRESIDENT Dr Katharine Burn Paul Bracey, Linda Cooper, Helen Crawford, magazine are welcome. They should be typed, should be sent to: the Chairholder, Bev Forrest, Karin Doull, Alf Wilkinson, Bev Forrest, double spaced, on one side of the paper. Please c/o The Historical Association. HONORARY TREASURER Michael Brooks Tim Lomas, Polly Tucknot, Matthew Sossick keep references to a minimum. A direct style HONORARY SECRETARY Dr Tim Lomas and Damienne Clarke free from jargon is preferred. Photographs and Primary History is published three times a year and CHIEF EXECUTIVE Rebecca Sullivan children’s work are welcome. The maximum article is available at substantial discounts to members of length is 1,500 words. Send to: The Editor, the Historical Association. Membership including Primary History c/o The Historical Association, Primary History is £43.00 for individuals, £72.00 © The Historical Association 2021 PUBLISHER Rebecca Sullivan 59a Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4JH. for schools and other corporate bodies and £36.50 all rights reserved. DESIGN AND LAYOUT Martin Hoare for students and NQTs. Registered charity 1120261 Publication of a contribution in Primary History Incorporated by Royal Charter does not necessarily imply the Historical Advertising enquiries to telephone: 020 7820 5985 Association’s approval of the opinions expressed in it. The Primary Committee of the Association has Printed in Great Britain by particular responsibility for matters of interest to Stephens & George Print Group primary teachers and schools. Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 3TD ISSN 0040-06109 editorial This edition is the second to be produced during the pandemic and hopefully the last. Potentially when the summer edition comes out we will be looking back at this most strange of times. My admiration goes out to all the committed, hardworking and exhausted class teachers trying to find ways to engage children now that the days are dark and short and the novelty of remote learning has long gone. A heartfelt thank you and well done to all of you who have contributed so steadfastly to supporting children’s learning. If history teaches us anything it is that it is cyclical, that humans periodically need to re-examine and re-experience situations, but that also, difficult times can be overcome. We hope that this edition will give you some ideas to build on and develop once a more normal teaching situation returns. Pedagogy Helen Crawford explains what to consider in relation to the new EYFS. Tim Jenner, the new History Subject Lead for Ofsted shares some observations that provide useful points to consider when evaluating our own practice. Tim Lomas contributes suggestions to develop effective feedback and assessment. Practice George Skinner and Judith Peel share a wonderful project that their village school undertook to remember wartime evacuees. The project clearly inspired the children and came to involve the whole community. Darius and Carol Jackson shared a ‘Mantle of the Expert’ activity that encouraged children to compare the contributions of Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings looking across the periods. This developed creativity and problem solving. Tracey Wire and Kate Thomson demonstrated how to use archives for a local history project. Subject knowledge Alf Wilkinson links a long-ago volcanic explosion in Iceland to Bronze Age climate change, enabling us to look at wider environmental concerns. What do a crime writer, a pair of married archaeologists, monumental construction and golden treasure have in common? Susie Townsend will lead you through ancient Sumer to find out. And how about curry, now a British staple: how did it make its debut in Britain? Find out about Hannah Glasse and Sake Dean Mahomed. Finally, Penelope Harnett explores the ancient village of Eyam and the sacrifices the villagers made in a previous plague situation. Our anniversary this edition is Decimalisation Day, 15 February 1971 (fifty years ago). Ask those that remember what their favourite coin was. Personally, I still mourn the loss of the silver sixpence whose largesse would allow the purchase of several bars of chocolate. Karin Doull is a principal lecturer at the University of Roehampton and a member of the HA primary committee. In our Summer 2021 issue: The next edition of Primary History will include articles on Stone Age monuments, using music to tell the story of different groups, how to develop subject knowledge and working with a source and an anniversary focus on the Festival of Britain of 1951. 4 Primary History 87 Spring 2021 Historical Association HA Primary As I write, we are in the by the government, but it midst of another period is likely that some level of of lockdown and severe remote learning will persist disruption to normal school until the summer term, for life. Many of you will be at least some children. facing teaching live remote lessons, putting together Please don’t forget our packs of work and juggling wonderful museums and being in school for key archives at this strange workers’ children. Don’t time. While visits will forget that the HA is here to certainly be off the menu help and we have a number possibly for the rest of of home learning resources this academic year, don’t on our home learning hubs. forget that many museums You can access the hubs and other Ofsted plans to keep all assessment are offering virtual tours and remote HA support materials here: activity online until at least mid- learning sessions that can be accessed www.history.org.uk/go/ February. In the meantime, they have either from home or in school. Why ResourcesCovid19 published some guidance on what not take a look on a few museum works well in remote learning, based websites to see what they have on New activities are soon to be added on evidence gathered from interim offer. so look out for these, including an visits.
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