Historic England Teaching Resources for KS1 – KS5 Students

Teachers can explore history and heritage with Youth Friendly Employer Historic England’s Teaching Resources for KS1 – KS5 students.

Historic England wants every child to be inspired by their local heritage and every teacher to have brilliant resources to use inside and outside the classroom.

Historic England provides ready-made resources such as PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and notes for teachers to download and use in the classroom (and they’re free!).

They also include information on how these types of activities support the National Curriculum for History and Ofsted inspections.

The aim of these resources is to help teachers create engaging activities for their students that inspire. Historic England also provides a virtual work experience programme for 16 – 18 year olds to give them an insight into heritage careers.

This resource is mainly for schools in England, but content can be used as needed in other UK countries.

Key Stage 1

These classroom resources and activities cover topics such as:

• The history of toys
• Design of architecture
• Famous buildings
• Local history and heritage
• Migration
• Insights from old photographs.

Key Stage 2

These classroom resources and activities cover topics such as:

• Census results
• Queen Victoria and victorian life
• Edwardian life
• Stone age to the bronze age
• Roman Britain
• Anglo-Saxons
• African lives in Northern England
• WW2.

Key Stage 3

These classroom resources and activities cover topics such as:

• Memorials
• Slavery
• Victorian life
• Women in WW2 and women in politics
• The Industrial Revolution
• African lives in Northern England
• Key historical events.

Key Stage 4

These classroom resources and activities cover topics such as:

• Saxon England the Norman Conquest
• Medical development during WW2
• Women’s lives before WW1.

Key Stage 5

These classroom resources and activities cover topics such as:

• Henry VIII and foreign policy
• The dissolution of the monasteries.

Teachers Kits & Timelines

There are resources consisting of timelines of regional history and the Stone Age to the Iron Age. You can also find Teacher’s Kits, designed to give you background knowledge on a range of heritage assets and ideas for how to use them in the classroom. These cover topics such as the brewing industry, brickmaking, the glass industry, mills, pottery, steam powers, the textile industry, transport, and many others developments that made modern Britain.