Oh, I can rant and rave a lot more than I just did!
Different children are enthused by different things. Personally, I wasn't that interested in modern history, ordinary person history etc (or at least I wasn't until I started doing family history research at 11) but from a very young age, I loved medieval history and castles, and I had a huge English Civil War craze at 10. So I think the primary school curriculum should include a wide variety of different things, to maximise the chances of children discovering that bit of history that sparks their interest.
I'm awaiting future terms' requests with interest, but although we did get a lot of requests for Stone Age and Anglo-Saxons this term, we did get quite a few for Victorians and local history, so there's clearly at least some flexibility in there.
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Different children are enthused by different things. Personally, I wasn't that interested in modern history, ordinary person history etc (or at least I wasn't until I started doing family history research at 11) but from a very young age, I loved medieval history and castles, and I had a huge English Civil War craze at 10. So I think the primary school curriculum should include a wide variety of different things, to maximise the chances of children discovering that bit of history that sparks their interest.
I'm awaiting future terms' requests with interest, but although we did get a lot of requests for Stone Age and Anglo-Saxons this term, we did get quite a few for Victorians and local history, so there's clearly at least some flexibility in there.