Knowhow Ed Primary History and Geography Network: Meeting 3

Primary History and Geography Network

Welcome to the Knowhow Ed Primary History and Geography Network! Join us online once a month for a fun and interactive event where you can connect with fellow educators, share ideas, and learn new strategies for teaching history and geography to primary students. Whether you're a subject leader, seasoned teacher or just starting out, this event is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their teaching of these subjects. Register now and be a part of our network!

Meeting: December 1st 2025

History in focus: Timebox Teams – making timelines active, fast paced and fun

Timelines play an important part in developing chronological understanding when used as effective teaching tools rather than merely for display.

Timebox is a highly visual, classroom game that can be used in every year group to build children’s chronological understanding, can be curated to reflect your curriculum and is portable with each class as they progress throughschool.

Timebox enables children to:

• construct timelines for themselves rather than just looking at completed ones;

• ‘move about in history' as they build a physical, walkable map of the past;

• relate each new topic or enquiry to their existing mental map of the past from previous years;

• develop precision with time labels and dating conventions;

• make connections within topics and across time to other events or periods;

• consider questions of duration and interval;

• demonstrate increasing depth of historical knowledge over time.

Timebox Teams helps children engage with the slippery concept of time – a concept fundamental to understanding history. It also raises expectations of what we might expect of our Y6 pupils by the end of their time in primary school.

It also provides a lot of fun, cheerful competition, and laughter!

Come along to find out more..

Who is Knowhow Ed?

KnowhowEd is directed by Julie McGrane and Anne Echevarria.

We have spent much of our careers exploring ways of helping learners develop the skills and dispositions required to think and learn effectively. We draw on a range of teaching thinking and enquiry-based approaches such as Project Based Learning, Philosophy for Children, Visible Thinking and Thinking Moves - to name just a few.

From these we bring:

• an understanding of how to develop children's ability to think together and think for themselves - and develop the language of reasoning for doing so;
• an awareness of the importance of analogy and story in helping children explore abstract concepts;
• a wealth of strategies to help learners explore the 'big ideas' that underpin learning in different subject areas;
• expertise in facilitating the sort of metacognitive learning conversations that embed deeper understanding;
• a desire to infuse learning with real world authenticity and relevance.