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 »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...
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 »Dear all, I hope that you are all well and coping with, what must be, the strangest term in all of our careers. While the priority has to be staying safe and getting through, there are still many exciting things happening at the Schools History Project which I would like to you aware of. SHP Planning Groups The Schools History Project has always been a curriculum project which has sought to have r...
Read More »We’re incredibly proud to be launching a new initiative for the next academic year, designed to support teachers in curriculum planning and subject knowledge around key topics in the history curriculum. What are SHP Planning Groups? SHP Planning Groups are groups of teachers who will work together through a six-month project to learn from each other, experienced teachers and historical exper...
Read More »This statement below, praising Dale Banham and Ian Luff’s SHP History Year 9, the approach they took to writing the book and the material it contains on the Holocaust was issued by Professor Stuart Foster, Executive Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL. You may be aware of a recent online CPD from the University College London (UCL) Centre of Holocaust Education which focuse...
Read More »THE RESULTS Schools History Project Essay Competition in association with Professor Peter Frankopan, No More Marking and Hodder Education THE RESULTS Thank you very much to the over-160 schools that have participated in the SHP essay competition in association with Prof Peter Frankopan and No More Marking supported by Hodder Education and History Today. Congratulations to all who took part, the st...
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