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      Neolithic Know-How: Great Langdale Axes
    
      As the Mesolithic Period (‘middle stone age’) turned into the Neolithic Period (‘new stone age’) around 4,000BC in Britain, axes became more and more important.
    
        3 min
      
        23/10/2019
      
      Who Discovered America?
    
      ‘In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue’
… and discovered America. Or did he?  
    
        3 min
      
        11/10/2019
      
      Why Knowing Religion?
    
      Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks out this month. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme.
    
        4 min
      
        22/05/2017
      
      Bloody Mary: Did she deserve her reputation?
    
      This teaching activity is about reputations, what they are, how we can acquire one and how we can change or lose one. The 18th February marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Mary I, the lesser known daughter of Henry...
    
        5 min
      
        10/02/2016
      
      Baden Powell Anniversary
    
      On the 8th January, 75 years ago, Robert Baden Powell died. Best known for starting the scout and inspiring the girl guides movement, he was also a successful military commander. Millions of girls and boys around the world will mark...
    
        4 min
      
        29/01/2016
      
      Black History Month
    
      Many people believe that if racism didn’t exist then we wouldn’t need to celebrate Black History Month because all the achievements of these people would be recognised alongside those of their white counterparts. In studying their achievements, we must recognise...
    
        2 min
      
        01/10/2015
      
      Causes and effects of World War 1
    
      Suitable for: Year 3 to Year 6
Learning Focus: To empathise with people’s feelings over the cause and effects of the Great War
    
        5 min
      
        12/02/2014
      
      Project based learning (or, How I learned to do absolutely nothing)
    
      I have been learning a lesson from History. Not from the annals of yore but from the History department at my school. They have been trialling the use of project based learning across Key Stages 3-5 and suggested some...
    
        3 min
      
        22/04/2013
      
      Secondary History – It’s Complicated…
    
      To help our students make sense of history quite often we generalise, so Hitler’s war becomes Germany’s war, where all Germans are involved in fighting against the Allies.  During the Industrial Revolution all factory owners were oppressive, making their workers...
    
        3 min
      
        16/01/2012
      
      Secondary History – Hyperinflation
    
      ‘In August 1923, the dollar reached a million Mark.’
-Hyperinflation through Defying Hitler

        4 min
      
        06/01/2012
      
      Secondary History – Taking a Second Look
    
      Sometimes you know a topic really well, you’ve taught it many times, you are familiar with the key ideas and subject knowledge. You know which text book has the best images, the best activities, or which clip of film to...
    
        3 min
      
        07/12/2011
      
      Secondary History – Interpreting Sources
    
      Who am I? Students always have problems getting their head around the idea of Interpretations. They look for certainty, and find it hard to grasp that most history is a construct, it is someone’s opinion, put together by carefully selecting...
    
        3 min
      
        19/10/2011