Primary History Consultancy

At Immersive History, we understand that your primary school may not have a history expert on its team, so it can be challenging to know where to begin in raising standards of teaching and learning.

By providing you with high-quality professional development and training, we empower your teachers to devise and deliver memorable and meaningful learning experiences that are grounded in the principles of historical enquiry, helping your pupils to become active, curious, and objective historians.

Our services

No primary school’s needs are identical to another’s, so our bespoke primary history consultancy is tailored to each client’s priorities. Whether your subject leader requires support in developing the curriculum, your teachers lack confidence in teaching the disciplinary concepts, or you wish to find out how to use historical records as part of a local history study, we can help.

We can provide a programme of professional support on any of the following themes, or we can create a tailored package to meet your school’s needs – the choice is yours!

• Planning the history curriculum to reflect latest thinking and Ofsted initiatives.
• Developing subject knowledge.
• Teaching chronology using timelines.
• Conducting historical enquiries in the classroom.
• Understanding and teaching disciplinary and substantive concepts.
• Investigating the lives of significant people in history.
• Developing questioning when using artefacts.
• How to use sources from archives for your study of local history.
• Embracing diversity in primary history.
• Providing challenge for Able and Talented children.

Our support doesn’t cease the moment we leave your school, however; we’ll always stay in regular touch to find out how your team are getting on and whether they would benefit from further support.

About us

Our primary history consultancy is provided by a highly experienced history graduate who worked for more than 20 years as a teacher, history subject leader, Assistant Headteacher, and Deputy Headteacher in mainstream, independent, and alternate provision schools in the north-west of England and Midlands, and is now a social inclusion officer for a local authority. She also worked for one of the UK’s leading edtech publishers to design their scheme of work for primary history, and has also written for the Historical Association’s Primary History magazine.

Find out more

For more information about our history consultancy or to tell us about your school’s needs, please get in touch today.