Greetings from the Schools History Project. I hope that the new school year has started well. This academic year will be a busy one for SHP as we launch our new GCSE specification – OCR B (SHP). It’s been reassuring to have received such positive feedback from teachers on the draft specification. As you probably know, none of the History GCSE specifications were accredited on first submissio...
Read More »I hope that you had a good Easter break. Last term was particularly busy for SHP as we worked in partnership with OCR to complete our new draft GCSE specification for 2016, OCR B (SHP). We hope you agree that our new specification truly reflects the SHP principles for ensuring engaging, meaningful and rigorous school history. The draft specification and sample assessment materials have now been se...
Read More »Esther returns for Spring with positive plans for tackling all the changes in prospect at A level and GCSE ….
Read More »Greetings from SHP – we hope that 2015 is a good year for you. The year promises to be a special one in the history of the Project as we develop the new SHP GCSE in partnership with OCR. This is a great opportunity to produce a specification firmly based on SHP principles. You can read more about the new SHP specification in my blog here . We appreciate that access to high quality resources ...
Read More »Gifts from the Christmas elves - aka history teachers - for all those new to History teaching
Read More »Preparing the way for next week's Christmas-present, plum pudding, tinsel-wrapped Letter Esther asks .....
Read More »This week Esther sought advice from Richard Kennet about classroom display. What follows is their series of exchanged letters (well, emails!)
Read More »On how even the best of intentions can have unexpected consequences and we have to rethink our core plan ...
Read More »Marking – it’s essential but there’s so much of it. How can you do justice to your pupils’ efforts without disappearing beneath a mound of books …
Read More »As the new half-term begins how do you deal with the pressure to do everything brilliantly - and do it now?
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