1. Enquiry based planning
How can you make sense of the vast amount of content you need to cover?

2. Why a focus on enquiries?
The wording of an enquiry frames the learning for a number of lessons – moving away from the ‘tyranny of the lesson’
The strongest are those based on a clear second order concept
This is NOT about ‘skills’ but about knitting together learning
Allows for constant revisiting of knowledge and addition of new knowledge – this means more demanding content can be absorbed

3. How would you formulate an enquiry question for each of these concepts using the content proposed?
Cause and Consequence
Similarity and Diversity
Change and Continuity
Historical Significance
Evidence
Interpretations

4. Do some planning for a year group
Worksheet – how might you begin to break up this curriculum?
Make it relevant to your students?
Continue to focus on conceptually driven enquiries?
Cause and Consequence, Similarity and Diversity, Change and Continuity, Historical Significance, Evidence, Interpretations

5. Some ideas to play with...
‘Why do opinions of Victoria’s Empire keep changing?’ - Interpretations
‘Who wanted to make Victorian children go to school?’ – Similarity and Difference
‘Why is it hard to decide whether Edwardian Britain was a Golden Age?’ -Evidence
‘Who fought on the Western Front?’ - Similarity and Difference
Why do we still remember the Peace talks of 1919? - Significance
‘What generalisations about the Holocaust can we make?’- Similarity and Difference
‘What kind of change did fighting a Cold War bring?’ – Change and Continuty

6. Interpretations Should we be proud of the British Empire?
Why do opinions of Victoria’s Empire keep changing?

7. Similarity and Difference
Who fought on the Western Front?
How different were the attitudes of the rulers and the ruled in the British Empire?

8. Causes and Consequences
Why was universal suffrage introduced?
Why did Britain’s role in the world change after the Second World War?

9. Change and Continuity
Which reform has done the most to change life in Britain in the 20th century?
How close was Britain to revolution between 1789 and 1832?

10. Significance Why do we still remember the Peace talks of 1919?
How should Winston Churchill be remembered?

11. Evidence
Why is it hard to decide whether Edwardian Britain was a Golden Age?
What can the Great Exhibition of 1851 tell us about Victorian Britain?