CPD Network for teachers
Warwickshire Heritage Learning Primary History Teacher Network 2025
A CPD network designed by teachers, for teachers.
Does your History Curriculum need invigorating? Do you want access to History experts? Would you enjoy sharing ideas with like-minded individuals to increase impact?
Look no further!
In its third year the cohort has identified two workshops for the spring and summer 2025 terms.
Book now to secure a place for you or a colleague on these workshops. Different colleagues can attend each workshop from a school, if more relevant to their teaching practice.
This year we are extending the length of the workshops to allow time for more discussion and collaboration amongst the cohort.
A local history approach to the Stone Age to Iron Age
Date - Thursday 6 March 2025, from 9.30am to 3pm
Location - St Johns House, St Johns, Warwick, CV34 4NF
At the end of this workshop you will have six enquiry led lesson plans you can take back to the classroom and use to teach this topic. Using archaeological evidence from Warwickshire we have written six enquiry questions that use local history to paint a picture of prehistoric life in the county.
As part of the workshop Warwickshire Museum curators, Jon Radley and Sara Wear, will be on hand to talk more about the local history and show objects from the museum collection. This is a rare opportunity to work with the museum’s curators to bring local history from prehistory into your school curriculum.
This will be a collaborative workshop and you are encouraged to bring your existing Stone Age to Iron Age lesson plans with you. With our support and your existing resources you can refresh your curriculum without having to re-invent the prehistoric wheel!
This workshop would be suitable for the History Lead in your school or a colleague teaching this topic who can feed back to the team and influence change.
The Big Idea – Writing a whole school curriculum
Date - Thursday 22 May 2025, 9.30am to 3pm
This whole day workshop will examine how you can create a history curriculum that falls under one ‘Big Idea’ such as Leadership. We will examine potential ideas for a ‘Big Idea’, how existing topics taught in school might already fit into this, what new topics and enquiry questions would help shape a curriculum and where disciplinary and substantive concepts fit in.
As always we will support you with local history links and evidence to strengthen your curriculum.
This would be a collaborative day, with group discussion and workshopping ideas together. At the end of the workshop we would expect you to have a drafted curriculum to discuss with your team at school.
This workshop would be suitable for the History Lead in your school.
£40 for two workshops plus Eventbrite fees.
The ticket is for one space on each workshop, A different member of staff can attend each workshop. To send more than one member of staff to each workshop multiple tickets will need to be booked.
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day. Lunch is not provided, please bring your own.
