September 2023 It feels very strange sitting at home typing this blog on the first day of the new school year, knowing that after 30 years in the History classroom, I am not sitting in a school hall listening to the exam feedback and Headteacher’s (sometimes un)inspiring vision for the year. Instead, I am embarking on a new journey, balancing part time teaching at Park View school, with the Direc...
Read More »The Schools History Project is delighted to announce that Dan Lyndon-Cohen will become its new Director in July 2023. Dan has spent nearly 30 years in the History classroom and is currently the Lead Practitioner for Humanities at Park View School, a diverse 11-16 maintained comprehensive in Tottenham. Dan brings extensive experience to his role as Director. As well as leading a history department...
Read More »In anticipation of this year’s summer conference we wanted to share the absolutely fantastic plenary from last year’s virtual event by the brilliant Jason Todd: “Silences, Traces and Voices: Conversations and Journeys Through Race”. In the film Jason makes the case, drawing on the work of the Jamaican-born intellectual Stuart Hall and Haitian academic Michel Rolph Trouillot...
Read More »While there are still places available for the SHP Summer Conference (8-10 July, Leeds), we are pleased to share more information about the plenary sessions that will be open to all delegates. Partition of British India, 75th anniversary: KS3 Online Assembly 2022 sees the 75th anniversary of the Partition of British India. This monumental event led to an untold number of deaths, the largest...
Read More »A joint HA-SHP online CPD course in planning primary history The Schools History Project and the Historical Association have come together to support primary teachers and curriculum leaders in the principles of strong primary history curriculum design. The series will focus on the SHP principles that have been fundamental in shaping key strengths in school history in England for five decades and h...
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Read More »We are delighted that the SHP Conference 2022 will again be in-person at Leeds Trinity University in Horsforth, Leeds on July 8-10 in time to celebrate SHP’s fiftieth anniversary. We are making an open appeal for talented history-teaching practitioners to share their ideas for one-and-a-half-hour workshops that promote the principles of the Schools History Project. Whether you have never bee...
Read More »Black Tudors Miranda Kaufmann’s plenary at SHP 2019 and workshop by Josh Garry and Wendy Lennon alerted delegates to a range of approached that teachers nationally are developing using Miranda’s books. The short blog explains the background to the project while the Google Drive contains materials that have already been created to support teachers, but please feel free to add some of your own. Curr...
Read More »We are delighted to announce the second SHP New Teachers’ Conference on 29th January 2022 supported by OCR and Hodder Education. This day-long online conference will provide first-class CPD for teachers at the beginning of their careers. If you are an Early Careers Teacher, a trainee teacher or just someone looking for practical ideas to improve your practice, why not find out more by going ...
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