History

Wanting to explore the subject of History in-depth or looking to feel more confident about an upcoming History Deep Dive in 2025? This pack, ideal for History subject leaders, helps you to consider intent, implementation and impact questions that are specific to History, allowing you to consider areas of strength and weakness so you can plan for improvement and (if you feel you need to) prepare for Ofsted.

Struggling to get release time to monitor History or having to complete subject monitoring in your PPA? This Ten-Minute Subject Monitoring in History Pack provides a solution to the challenges of having a high level of accountability as a primary subject leader but not having the time to complete the monitoring activities necessary - often because of factors beyond your control, such as the school budget, booking supply or getting cover.

Ten-minute subject monitoring works by identifying different time slots where you can be away from your teaching commitments in order to conduct a precise and focused subject monitoring activity on one element, such as a book look focusing on one strand of the History curriculum or a single 10-minute lesson drop-in. So rather than trying to find a full afternoon's cover to conduct a term or half-term's worth of monitoring, you can spread monitoring across a term by choosing slots where teaching and learning in your own classroom won't be impacted.

Aimed at primary History subject leads (or those line managing a History subject leader), this pack walks you through the entire process and is full of ideas on how to find and utilise ten-minute time slots for subject monitoring, as well as what you should be looking for in your monitoring when it comes to substantive knowledge and concepts, disciplinary knowledge and concepts, plus the chronological knowledge and historical terms and phenomena pupils need to grasp.

Want to know what's inside the pack? View a preview version of the guidance and accompanying template to get a deeper understanding of how ten-minute subject monitoring can help you!