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Alison Kitson is talking about the Black Death. She starts with a side note to the presentation: information about a project called Miriam’s Vision which offers lessons and resources on the topic of 7/7 with reference to Miriam Hyman who … Continue reading →

Ed is talking about teaching something new at GCSE. Following a move to Leeds he had to do this and decided to write it up as a case study for everybody else who will be going through this as the … Continue reading →

Watching the news of the cabinet reshuffle tick across the BBC website this morning felt a bit like a slightly more middle class version of watching the contestants go into the Big Brother house. Each newbie was duly inspected in … Continue reading →

Now that I have just about finished teaching about the 18th century, with some spectacular assessment pieces from my clever year 8s about how the British Empire led to some of the significant changes in this period, I am reviewing … Continue reading →

I’ve moved my blog from Blogger to this sparkling new WordPress site. A change is as good as a rest, they say. So, the posts below have been imported from my old blog, though I note that they don’t look … Continue reading →

This is what passes for innovation at this end of term… Me: I want to do Tudor websites with my year 7s this afternoon but I am not sure where to host them.Helpful Teacher Friend: Hmm. Don’t know. But you … Continue reading →

We have a literacy focus in the Humanties faculty. It’s been our focus for a while, and for the next year we’re all focusing particularly on improving the quality of our pupils’ writing. Our deputy head is on a “which” … Continue reading →

I spent a useful hour chatting to Mark Anderson, a local ICT HoD and innovator I met on Twitter as I excitedly trawled through the tweets about Google Teacher Academy, online on Friday night about different tech strategies we use … Continue reading →

I have long resisted the urge to begin a blog about my exploits at work. I’ve been blogging for more than a decade and questioned the wisdom of putting something new together: time is short. However, this is a time … Continue reading →