The Better History Forum recently held a consultative meeting with primary teachers hosted by Queen Edith CP School, Cambridge. As well as classroom teachers and headteachers, we also had representatives from the Cambridge Primary Review, ARK, History off the Page, the Historical Association and the Midlands History Forum.

Discussion focused on the importance of maintaining history as a discrete element within the primary curriculum, and the importance of retaining an exciting 'hands-on' approach to learning. We agreed on the importance of establishing a chronological framework for children's understanding, and on the crucial role that can be played by narrative and story. We looked at the issue of how primary history can support and prepare pupils for the secondary history curriculum without losing its own distinctive character and structure.

Full coverage of how history can fit alongside geography within both the primary and secondary curriculum is given in the Better History Forum's full set of proposals to Government.

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