The series, "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. It should encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and give them confidence to debate their own findings. A teacher's guide accompanies each pupils' book giving practical advice on implementing the National Curriculum. There is one pupils' book and one teacher's guide for each core study unit which provides a complete package covering the Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study for Key Stage 3.

Victorian Britain

by Sallie Purkis and James Mason

Published March 1993
The series, "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. It should encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and give them confidence to debate their own findings, and should provide teachers with a wealth of historical source material for discussion and further study. The structure of "A Sense of History" relates directly to the National Curriculum in England and Wales, but can also be used as part of the new history curriculum in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The series aims to give children continuation throughout their school years, providing material for infants at Key Stage 1, for juniors at Key Stage 2 and for lower secondary pupils at Key Stage 3. Designed for Core Study Unit 3, at Key Stage 2, this teacher's book looks at Victorian Britain - in particular at the ways in which industrialization affected the lives of men, women and children at all levels of society in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Presented in a ring binder file, the teacher's book also contains sections on planning the whole school policy for history; staffroom workshops for use on INSET days; resources and approaches; and assessing and recording children's progress. A reference section, photocopiable masters and stories covering each topic are also included.


Developing a sense of history lies at the heart of the History National Curriculum. "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past and to tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. "A Sense of History" should also encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and should give them confidence to debate their findings. Each page is laid out with activities and assignments and key information boxes are highlighted. Maps, contemporary illustrations and artefacts are used throughout. A teacher's guide accompanies each pupils' book giving practice advice on implementing the National Curriculum and there is one pupils' book and one teacher's book for each core study unit, so providing a complete package covering the Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study for Key Stage 3.

Tudor and Stuart Chronicle

by James Mason

Published January 1993
The series, "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. It should encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and give them confidence to debate their own findings, and should provide teachers with a wealth of historical source material for discussion and further study. The structure of "A Sense of History" relates directly to the National Curriculum in England and Wales, but can also be used as part of the new history curriculum in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The series aims to give children continuation throughout their school years, providing material for infants at Key Stage 1, for juniors at Key Stage 2 and for lower secondary pupils at Key Stage 3. Designed for Core Study Unit 2, at Key Stage 2, this resource book looks at Tudor and Stuart times, offering a comparative view of both Tudor and Stuart life throughout the period and providing coverage of people, events and politics on a chronological basis.

Invaders and Settlers

by Sallie Purkis and J Mason

Published 13 January 1992


Tudor Times

by Sallie Purkis and James Mason

Published 8 August 1995

Aztecs

by Sallie Purkis

Published August 1995

Tudor and Stuart Times

by James Mason and Sallie Purkis

Published January 1993
The series, "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. It should encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and give them confidence to debate their own findings, and should provide teachers with a wealth of historical source material for discussion and further study. The structure of "A Sense of History" relates directly to the National Curriculum in England and Wales, but can also be used as part of the new history curriculum in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The series aims to give children continuation throughout their school years, providing material for infants at Key Stage 1, for juniors at Key Stage 2 and for lower secondary pupils at Key Stage 3. Designed for teaching Core Study Unit 2, at Key Stage 2, this teacher's book looks at Tudor and Stuart times, offering a comparative view of both Tudor and Stuart life throughout the period.
Presented in a ring binder file, the teacher's book contains sections on planning the whole school policy for history; staffroom workshops for use on INSET days; resources and approaches; and assessing and recording children's progress. A reference section, photocopiable masters and stories covering each topic are also included.

Local History

by Sallie Purkis

Published 20 March 1997
This handbook provides a complete field study guide for investigating the history of everyone's locality. It is a practical guide which contains notes on planning a programme, a directory of useful sources, ideas for activities, curriculum information, recording and assessment techniques, information on investigations, prompts and questions for discussion, and 60 photocopiable worksheets for use in the field and classroom.

Tudors and Stuarts

by James Mason and Sallie Purkis

Published 17 March 1993
The series, "A Sense of History" uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and tap into the lives and feelings of the men and women of the time. It should encourage pupils to make their own judgements based on the evidence they have and give them confidence to debate their own findings, and should provide teachers with a wealth of historical source material for discussion and further study. The structure of "A Sense of History" relates directly to the National Curriculum in England and Wales, but can also be used as part of the new history curriculum in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The series aims to give children continuation throughout their school years, providing material for infants at Key Stage 1, for juniors at Key Stage 2 and for lower secondary pupils at Key Stage 3. Designed for Core Study Unit 2, at Key Stage 2, these audio cassettes take a comparative view of both Tudor and Stuart life throughout the period.
Providing a taped reading of the text of the introductory and resource books, these cassettes aim to aid the introduction of the specialist vocabulary and names, offer practice in listening skills and make group work easier for teachers to organize.

This teachers guide accompanies a text on medieval history. The guide makes the links between the text and the National Curriculum requirements for programmes of study and attainment targets. Practical help and advice, including matrices, exemplars and mark schemes assist teachers to: devise schemes of work in accordance with National Curriculum requirements which are based on "A Sense of History"; chart pupil-coverage of key ideas and concepts; make assessments of pupils' historical knowledge, understanding and historical skills; record pupil-progress. The guide also provides exemplars to enable pupil recording of their own acheivement within each unit. Each guide supports and extends the activities of the pupils book providing mark schemes for the assessment of pupils' work arising from major exercises in the text linking mark schemes to National Curriculum levels of attainment, providing extension exercises and mark schemes for high attaining pupils in Key Stage 3. The guide also contains exercises to supplement those in the text. Any exercises focus on a single Attainment Target.
Where individual pupils of classes have weaknesses in relation to one attainment target, teachers will be able to select programmes of work which concentrate on developing expertise in that area.




Ancient Egypt

by Sallie Purkis

Published August 1995

Britain Since 1930

by Sallie Purkis

Published June 1995


The Roman Empire

by Angela Leonard and James Mason

Published June 1993
This teachers guide accompanies a text on the Roman Empire. The guide makes the links between the text and the National Curriculum requirements for programmes of study and attainment targets. Practical help and advice, including matrices, exemplars and mark schemes assist teachers to: devise schemes of work in accordance with National Curriculum requirements which are based on "A Sense of History"; chart pupil-coverage of key ideas and concepts; make assessments of pupils' historical knowledge, understanding and historical skills; record pupil-progress. The guide also provides exemplars to enable pupil recording of their own acheivement within each unit. Each guide supports and extends the activities of the pupils book providing mark schemes for the assessment of pupils' work arising from major exercises in the text linking mark schemes to National Curriculum levels of attainment, providing extension exercises and mark schemes for high attaining pupils in Key Stage 3. The guide also contains exercises to supplement those in the text. Any exercises focus on a single Attainment Target.
Where individual pupils of classes have weaknesses in relation to one attainment target, teachers will be able to select programmes of work which concentrate on developing expertise in that area.