I was approached by the Assistant Head Teacher of Years 5 and 6, who is also a regular attendee of our virtual Primary Humanities Network meetings, to see if I could deliver some bespoke CPD for their Humanities Subject Leaders before the end of Term 2. Their initial request was overly ambitious for one afternoon, so it was advised that …
GITEP trainees (Ribston Hall High School (RHHS), Gloucestershire
It was back to one of the schools that I spent seven happy years teaching at today. However, this time it was not to teach, but to deliver a session to GITEP trainees (‘So, what does history look like in primary schools?’) after being approached by Rebecca Rose, Teacher of History, ITE Training Manager and NQT Induction Tutor, as well as …
Curriculum development (Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls, Gloucester)
I was thrilled to receive the below e-mail in my inbox a couple of weeks ago: ‘… Good news to share! After a stressful few days and sleepless nights, we received extremely positive feedback yesterday and were awarded good judgements in all areas. This is indeed a big achievement for our school community and your input has been significant in …
Primary Humanities Network meeting (Gloucestershire Heritage Hub)
A different venue to our usual one! At a previous Network meeting, John Putley, Hub Facilities Manager, very kindly offered to host one of our future gatherings at the new Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, so I took him up on this straightaway! I led a HLF WWW1 school and community groups’ project back in 2014-2015 and had a lot of dealings …
Whole staff twilight CPD (Lainesmead Primary School and Nursery, Swindon)
This afternoon saw me venture across the border into Wiltshire to deliver a twilight CPD to all staff at Lainesmead Primary School and Nursery (http://www.lainesmeadprimaryschool.org.uk/) in Swindon. The theme for today’s session was ‘Progression and assessment in geography and history’, something that I have delivered several times before, but am continually updating due to the current changes in education, e.g. …