4. Less content? Maybe – but it’s up to us! Our greatest challenges / opportunities are related to “Range and content”. New? The concepts and processes of history have been clearly defined and used with success in classrooms for at least 17 years. Keep them at the centre of planning.
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34. Real Remembrance – What stories lie behind the Chard War Memorial? Images and account of how one school involved pupils in researching names on local war memorial – and ended by pupils taking governors to places in the town and telling them the stories of soldiers who died in Flanders