I do not have time to be writing this. No joke. My kids are at the dentists with their mum… Read more One week in

Along with increasing student access to scholarship, the second big focus of this academic year for me has been explicit… Read more Empowering History students through language.

That time of year again; open evening. I have been tasked with sprucing up our History corridor displays and wanted… Read more Read / Watch / Listen / Visit

As seems to be the case with lots of subject leaders; I am currently preparing to undertake a major rethink… Read more How I hope to Build a Better Curriculum.

I just wanted to share a simple activity I used earlier in case you want to give it a go.… Read more Simple strategy to get students thinking about the power of historians.

One of the great things about teaching is discovering something that works at one level and adapting it to another.… Read more Writing better judgments.

As I have blogged about before, my big focus at the moment is to improve provision of opportunities of ‘application’… Read more How can I empower students to apply fresh knowledge to construct narrative?

For my department CPD this week I tried something different. I distributed a chapter from Every History Lesson Matters by… Read more Discussion as CPD.