Calling all primary history teachers and subject co-ordinators! HA Primary Survey 2015:

Historical Association

Make your voice heard. Take part here and have your say.

A message from Jerome Freeman, Chair of the HA primary committee…

The HA is committed to representing teachers’ views – making your needs and concerns known to policy-makers, and demonstrating the impact of their decisions on you and your pupils. That’s why we need your help!

The HA primary history survey 2015 is now live and we are asking you to please spare a few minutes to fill in the survey.

Tell us how you are finding the new primary history curriculum. Are you happy with the new programmes of study and enjoying teaching some of the new history content contained within them? Or are you finding parts difficult to resource?

How are you assessing your children’s progress now that the level descriptions have disappeared?

Whatever you think we would really like to hear from you. Your views are vital in helping us provide effective support for primary schools from the content of our journal, Primary History, through to our CPD events and the HA website.

This is your chance to tell us what matters most – so that the HA can use its voice to support you.

Please take just a few minutes to fill it in to make sure our knowledge of history in primary schools is bang up to date and you can be entered for a prize draw to win £100 of M&S vouchers.

To participate in the survey, click here

Thank you.

FAO the Chair of Governors

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There are of course several ways of cutting electricity bills, from the obvious turning off of lights that are not required, to switching from one supplier to another.

Both of these ideas are worthwhile, of course, but there is another approach which a growing number of schools are now using, and which can make a much, much bigger dent in your annual electricity bill.

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