Initial responses to the question nearly always include the words; events, people and places and this is a reasonable starting point. Perry White explained to Clark Kent, that a good story includes a Who, What, When and Why and we can take our lead from that, when thinking about good history teaching and investigations.
Of course, history is much more involved than that, our discussion soon moved to thinking about themes within history, types of history and interpretations of history.
The students yesterday were also introduced to the idea of identity, and a sense of belonging, as being an aspect of History that is often explored in primary schools.
Historical skills, concepts and attitudes and values were explored too.
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