Build curiosity, critical thinking, and confidence in understanding the past.
Walnut helps children develop strong historical knowledge and analytical skills through adaptive guidance, interactive questioning, and structured support that builds real understanding — not memorisation.
With instant feedback, scaffolded explanations, and practice tailored to each learner’s level, Walnut turns history from a list of facts into a meaningful story students can explore and think deeply about.
Whether your child is studying Medieval England at Key Stage 3 or preparing for GCSE source questions, Walnut makes history clear, engaging, and confidence-building.
🔍 How Walnut supports history learning
Walnut acts as a personal learning coach — prompting careful thinking, breaking down complex ideas, and encouraging students to analyse, interpret, and explain.
Learners can practise source analysis, plan essays, revise key topics, and build chronological understanding, all while Walnut adjusts difficulty and guidance in real time.
Walnut doesn’t write essays or give ready-made answers.
Instead, it teaches students how to think like a historian:
- comparing causes and consequences
- analysing sources critically
- evaluating interpretations
- structuring clear, evidence-supported arguments
📘 Key Stage 3 — Building foundations of historical thinking
Focus areas:
- Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern eras
- Power, monarchy, church, empire, and revolution
- Understanding cause and consequence
- Source skills: reliability, usefulness, inference
- Extended writing and structured explanations
Walnut supports students with curriculum-aligned questioning and simplified mark-scheme guidance. It helps them:
- break down big topics into manageable ideas
- understand significance and change over time
- practise short answers and extended responses
- analyse sources through guided prompts
Whether studying the Norman Conquest, the Industrial Revolution, or the World Wars, Walnut helps learners develop both knowledge and historical reasoning.
🎓 Key Stage 4 (GCSE) — Strengthening analysis for exam success
Focus areas:
- Cause & consequence, change & continuity, significance
- Source analysis: nature/origin/purpose, inferences, reliability
- Evaluating interpretations
- Essay planning and structured argument writing
- Topic support for AQA, Edexcel, and OCR modules
Walnut helps GCSE students practise exam-style questions with targeted feedback mapped to major exam boards.
It guides learners through:
- planning arguments using PEEL / PEACE / What → How → Why
- structuring source evaluations with clear reasoning
- building detailed knowledge recall through adaptive quizzes
- refining extended responses step-by-step
Using an I do → we do → you do model, Walnut gradually reduces scaffolding as students become more confident and independent.
🧠 What makes Walnut different
- Adaptive guidance: Support adjusts based on understanding and confidence.
- Instant feedback: Clear explanations improve reasoning, not just recall.
- Structured support: Helps learners build strong habits for revision and writing.
- Confidence-first design: Encourages progress through curiosity and reflection.
- Parent visibility: Simple, meaningful summaries show growth over time.
Help your child think clearly, argue confidently, and understand the world through its past.
Walnut Learning Assistant makes history learning structured, supportive, and engaging for every learner.
