Listen to Nia Vaughan, teacher, and subject leader for humanities and equality and diversity at a primary school in Bridgend in South Wales. Nia is a former undergraduate QTS trainee from BA Primary QTS programme at UWE. There she worked with Dr Sarah Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer at UWE focus Humanities who is now supporting her in her PhD studies.

We talked about a range of perspectives including the 2020 Curriculum for Wales framework guidance. It aims to help each school develop its own curriculum, enabling their learners to develop towards the four purposes of the curriculum – the starting point and aspiration for every child and young person in Wales.

Other links mentioned or which are useful:

https://darpl.org/ a diverse team of providers with lived and professional experience through a professional learning and resource hub with a Welsh perspective in raising multi-disciplinary racial consciousness, as we all work together within the New Curriculum for Wales.

As well as a recent article by Professor Charlotte Williams who defined the importance of Cynefin in the Welsh curriculum: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/26/didnt-fit-in-wales-but-found-sense-of-place-understanding-history

https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/SarahWhitehouse

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Karin Doull is a freelance consultant and writer​ in the subject of History.

She ended our conversation by quoting Mary Beard: “Humanities teach us to argue cogently and responsibly and intelligently and with integrity about a series of questions to which there are no right answers”.

You can find out more about Karin here:

https://www.karindoullprimaryhistoryconsultancy.com/

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