This guidance is based on Martyn Ellis’s workshop at the 2009 SHP Conference: “Sir, can we teach Year 12 again?” – Getting Year 7 to focus on independent enquiry. Martyn’s workshop was based on his own reflective practice in helping Year 7 students to pursue an independent enquiry on an aspect women’s suffrage in Britain. The workshop featured a sequence of lessons through which he thought very ca...
Read More »This guidance is based on Donald Cumming and Dan Lyndon’s workshop at the 2012 SHP Conference: The Power of Two. Donald and Dan teach in differentschools in Yorkshire and London, but a conversation in the bar at a previous SHP Conference led to creative collaboration between Year 8 students in their two schools. Their guidance focuses on: Students’ use of blogging to pursue an enquiry on the life ...
Read More »The Holocaust is a statutory requirement of the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. In teaching this sensitive subject wide, deep and accurate knowledge is vitally important. Sharon Artley, an Imperial War Museum Holocaust Teaching Fellow, has produced a fascinating and detailed illustrated glossary for teachers of the Holocaust. It contains a range of extended definitions and images that will enh...
Read More »This guidance from Jamie Byrom (SHP Fellow) provides some useful starting points to help you plan for the 2014 National Curriculum. The resources include: 1. Jamie’s thoughts on revising your Key Stage 3 History Curriculum 2. The National Curriculum for History, setting out the Programmes of Study at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 3. A summary of the overall changes in the History curriculum at Key Stage 3...
Read More »The purpose of this lesson is to revise key individuals from the medicine development study. My students often get them mixed up so I have devised a number of activities to help them remember the work of key individuals. I have brought 3 of the activities together here to create a revision lesson. A mixture of visual, oral and written activities consolidates students’ knowledge. Downloads A WORD v...
Read More »This activity, by Andy Harmsworth, helps students to get to grips with the surgery strand of SHP’s development study of medicine. You and your students carry out a short classroom simulation of a surgical operation at the beginning of the 19 th century. The activity is used after studying the development of surgery before 1800. It provides a lively and memorable introduction to a series of lessons...
Read More »This guidance is based the workshop at the 2009 SHP Conference by Mary Mills, Catherine McHarg and Ian Coulson, ‘Dig it with NMR’. The workshop provided a range of resources and ideas for engaging pupils in archaeological enquiry using the websites of English Heritage and the National Monuments Record. Two particularly useful resources from the workshop are: A handout (in PDF) which explains how E...
Read More »This activity, by Diana Laffin, forms part of a sequence of learning focussed on the enquiry question: Did the Fascists unite or divide Italy in the years 1922-1944? It uses real life narratives to develop students’ thinking about the impact of fascism on the lives of individual Italians during this period. The activity requires small groups of students to work collaboratively on an individual lif...
Read More »Richard Kennett (at Redland Green School, Bristol) writes … When I was a child ‘visual history’, on the whole, meant Ladybird books with their combination of text and illustrations, but in the words of Bob Dylan “the times they are a changing”. With video sharing sites like YouTube, students today have instant access to a vast array of audio-visual historical resources. Now is the time to take adv...
Read More »Unlike a club that people joined, such as the Jacobin Club, the Girondins were never quite so clearly identifiable as a group and historians have debated whether they actually existed as a political party or whether they were linked by ties of friendship and geography. Many of the Girondins came from the Gironde region (e.g. Bergeoing, Ducos, Gensonné, Guadet, and Vergniaud) and some of them were ...
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