I hope you’ve had a good start to the new academic year. I know that many of you are looking forward to teaching new topics at GCSE, but it’s bound to be a demanding year as you plan and teach new courses. SHP will be busy providing support by completing the remaining resources for the OCR B (SHP) specification. In addition, through our conferences and website, we’ll be supporting the range of new...
Read More »“There aren’t enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe SHP15” …was how one teacher summed last year’s SHP conference. The 2016 SHP Conference promises its usual mix of enjoyment, enrichment and inspiration. This year, there will a strong focus on helping you to prepare for the new GCSE, including sessions specifically aimed at all the new GCSE specs. There will also be lots of...
Read More »Message from Michael I hope you had a good Easter break and that you managed to recharge your batteries. This term, many of you will be planning for the start of your new GCSE in September. The SHP Conference in Leeds will be packed with ideas to help with this. The weekend includes sessions to support all the new specs as well as workshops aimed specifically at SHP (OCR B). As usual, we have a fa...
Read More »Message from Michael We are delighted that SHP’s new GCSE specification is now accredited. OCR B (SHP) has been planned with SHP principles at its heart and we believe that it offers an innovative and exciting GCSE course. We hope that you and your students enjoy the SHP GCSE in the years ahead. High quality resources will be essential for successful introduction of the new GCSE and SHP is working...
Read More »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 »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 ...
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