"...this course has prompted a complete shake-up and rethink…loads or great ideas, just what we needed!"

"As a non-specialist, the programme has given me the confidence to move away from literacy-based humanities teaching to a far stronger focus on historical and geographical concepts and skills."

Course participantsCourse participants

KnowhowEd has worked with over two hundred schools in the UK and beyond. Our training helps curriculum leaders and teachers develop the expertise they need to design and implement a Geography and History curriculum that blends curriculum knowledge with an understanding of what historians and geographers ‘do’ - how they think and reason about the world whether past, present or future.

Our engaging materials help pupils to experience similar challenges in a way that is appropriate for children - challenges that introduce key historical and geographical ideas that get to the heart of what history and geography are all about.

Attend a course or whole school training and take away:
  • A toolkit to develop pupils’ understanding of the conceptual tools that we need to explore the world as historians and geographers do, together with the language of historical and geographical thinking;
  • Practical activities designed to develop pupils substantive, disiplinary and procedural knowledge
  • Improved teacher subject knoweldge
  • Enhanced geographical and historical skills
  • Sample long and medium term plans to help you create an ambitious, well sequenced and interconnected curriculum
  • Assessment ideas

'Julie and Anne have helped us to assemble a bespoke curriculum which has providednthe Humanities leads with the necessary confidence and subject knowledge to address the school's Ofsted action point: progression in Geography'.  A range of high- quality resources stimulate and engage pupils and promotes enjoyment for learning in Humanities' 

HeadteacherHeadteacherDurham LA

'We hugely value the ongoing training being provided by knowhowEd at all levels. Teachers are teaching with a new confidence having improved their subject knowledge, middle leaders are working with a new focus and increased awareness on developing their subject throughout school and senior leaders are enjoying seeing how it has directly impacted our children who are beginning to share their knowledge and skills with enthusiasm. As a head, I am excited to see how our curriculum progresses not only in history and geography but also in their links to other subjects. The training and support has been excellent - practical, detailed and enjoyable! '

HeadteacherHeadteacherNorthumberland LA



The support helped us rethink our approach to planning and delivering Humanities across the school. We now have embedded concepts across KS1 and KS2 that help the children work as historians and geographers.

Curriculum leadersCurriculum leadersNewcastle LA

Our work with schools:

Designing an ambitious, topical whole school long-term curriculum plan

Having run whole-school training at Hareside Primary School, we are now working with subject leaders to develop a bespoke whole-school curriculum plan, sequencing substantive and disciplinary knowledge and making multi-disciplinary connections.

Addressing the challenge of mixed-age planning in small schools

Teaching Geography and History to one class of years 3 to 6 every week is a considerable challenge: especially for a non-specialist. With investment from the Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Learning Trust, we are writing and piloting our four-year, thematic approach to mixed-age teaching with Ingleton Primary School in County Durham. Mixed-age units are available to purchase. Pre-order units of work.

Supporting teachers to develop historical enquiry and Geography fieldwork

In one Durham primary school we are developing a bespoke curriculum that makes the most of their local area and global connections. We work with every class teacher for an hour once per term to support their unit planning. This includes helping to design a local study for Year 4, so they can learn about the justification for and process by which we preserve local buildings.

Implementation that helps to realise curriculum intentions

Effective task design is crucial to ensure all pupils can achieve the ambition of the curriculum. Our concept toolkits provide you with the tasks to introduce and develop pupils conceptual thinking. St John’s Primary School in Newcastle use Mantle of the Expert as a pedagogical approach to teaching, we are working with them to integrate disciplinary knowledge into Mantle.

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