Primary history

[AdelaofBlois]

Usual twattishness from Niall Ferguson, and goes beyond primary, but do parents believe this too? What would you want taught?

My kids enjoyed primary History. Son nearly did GCSE, but didn't because he'd have only been doing it if he'd got the teacher he liked. My daughter is bored of secondary history, and it does seem very bitty. However I know lots of students and teachers studing history, including a local comp that offers two different GCSE History courses. Also a lot of people interested in Ancient History have been studying Ancient Civilisation, as the best fit course.
Also DT is a whole range of GCSEs; Food tech, Resistant Materials, Textiles, Control Tech, Product Design and so on.
Even with the EBacc, some students may be studying Geography instead.

BTW I did O'level History in the Dark ages and never learnt about the Boer War (wouldn't have even if I'd taken it to A'level either).

I would like my kids to have more of a general sweep of history. But then I spent years studying the battle of Hastings and the Industrial revolution, at least they do a bit of world history now.

"25% of all schools no longer teach history as a discrete subject in year 7"

I was in year 7 in 1974 and we did not have history as a distinct subject until year 9. We had something called Intergrated Studies which covered the humanity subjects. I only really remember learning about being a stone age child and shifting cultivation. The year I did study history we just seem to cover the Tudors. I took Geography for o'level and wish I had taken History.
The only History I remember from primary is the vikings.

I know my dcs were covering a lot of history even in year 1 and 2.
DS is taking History for GCSE and is covering the russian revolution and 1920s america so far. I really don't think the article is a good representation of what my DC's have covered in history at all.