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Mike Hill
about 1 month ago
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇
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We’re back! Can’t wait for
#Soane26
- a whole day of great workshops about knowledge in history teaching. Tickets now on sale. Only £25?!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-history-conference-2026-tickets-1747091470619?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Alistair Dickins
4 months ago
Just managed to catch up with
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
and
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
excellent webinar on Teaching Language Directly with
@histassoc.bsky.social
Thanks both for a fascinating session! Really interesting approaches and stimulating ideas. Well worth a watch if you can catch it 👍
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Christine Counsell
5 months ago
How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text? Register
bit.ly/4nrA8Mv
for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm
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Catherine Priggs
5 months ago
Really excited to deliver this FREE session with
@egcarr.bsky.social
We’ll discuss the power of enquiry questions, including how they shape the analytic direction and purpose of a sequence of lessons, create a sense of intrigue & infuse lessons with energy!
@counsellc.bsky.social
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Jonathan Mountstevens
5 months ago
Congratulations
@counsellc.bsky.social
! Delighted to see your name here!
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70 people with links to England's school system recognised
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Sam Freedman
6 months ago
The absolute last thing schools need right now - while dealing with an extremely tight funding settlement and rising poverty - is a radical overhaul of the exam system.
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Mike Hill
6 months ago
Really excited about presenting this series for
@histassoc.bsky.social
– starting this Wednesday, 4 June, 4pm. In the first webinar,
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history. Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen
6 months ago
1. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of the
@1972shp.bsky.social
South-West History Forum! The inaugural event will be taking place on June 18 in Bristol, with a stellar lineup: Michael Riley,
@paulalobo.bsky.social
and
@tomallenhistory.bsky.social
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Catherine Priggs
7 months ago
What a wonderful couple of days at HA 2025. Fantastic sessions from
@edurbin.bsky.social
@davidjhibbert.bsky.social
@e-nicholson.bsky.social
&
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
A joy to present alongside the wonderful
@egcarr.bsky.social
Superb keynotes. Stunning location.
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Alex Ford
7 months ago
Another great chapter from
@dankeates.bsky.social
, Stanford & Goullee’s “Practical Guide to History Teaching”. So useful to have a comprehensive look at similarity and difference and historical perspective in one chapter
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
. The Seixas & Morton stuff is v helpful too.
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Mike Hill
7 months ago
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
and I are leading a webinar series for
@histassoc.bsky.social
in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars. Link below! 👇
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Dan Keates
8 months ago
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
lays out how similarity and difference can be understood and used in conjunction with historical perspective. Understanding how, what has been called cultural history, can be used as part of history teacher planning. A fantastic chapter.
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Dan Keates
8 months ago
Today is publication day for a Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School. 19 years after the first edition, this is a complete re-write by so many wonderful experts in the history teaching community. Thanks to
@terryhaydn.bsky.social
for offering the opportunity 5 years ago!
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Dan Keates
8 months ago
Thrilled to be receivin first copies a real team effort by so many great history teachers and educators
@victoriacrooks.bsky.social
@lauralondo1017.bsky.social
@paulalobo.bsky.social
@danlyndon.bsky.social
@mrmayhew.bsky.social
@michaelfordham.bsky.social
Dedicated to the great Helen Snelson
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Will Goodfellow
8 months ago
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
- Changing the world of history textbooks for 11-14 year olds. With Book 1 Connected Worlds, we set a high bar for immersive story telling accompanied by beautiful looking pages. With Book 2 Expanding Worlds we're taking it to the next level. Samples coming soon!
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Christine Counsell
8 months ago
What keeps going wrong with assessment in history? What can we learn from 35 yrs of the same mistakes? Looking forward to presenting, Tues 3.30pm, for Leicester Education Improvement Partnership
@histassoc.bsky.social
@beckyfrancis.bsky.social
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social
@salwilson11.bsky.social
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Pete Jackson
9 months ago
6. I've really seen how brilliantly
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
and
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
use images to support world-building. Jacob's presentation on Stalin's Russia showed this off superbly. This is an element I've added to support storytelling in the classroom. Works superbly well.
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Jonathan Mountstevens
10 months ago
We're gonna need a Bigger Listen.
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Doug O’Brien
9 months ago
Want to lead History across five schools? What to improve life chances for young people? Want to work in beautiful Cornwall? There is only a week left to apply for this amazing opportunity working with the
@celtacademies.bsky.social
education team as Director of History. Repost and get in touch!
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Peter Tse
9 months ago
Our subject teams are deep curricular thinkers. Every day, I get the chance to work with people who LOVE their subjects. Big shout out to
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
's fabulous history dept for hosting a fantastic conference last weekend.
bsky.app/profile/edur...
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Mike Hill
10 months ago
Thank you to everyone who came to our second Ark Soane History conference yesterday. It was such a joy to see so many history teacher colleagues together. As always, I’m proudest of our pupils who were so keen to help and talk about history. What a lovely day.
#Soane25
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Harry Hudson
10 months ago
Thanks so much to
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
and his team for organising a superb day at
#soane25
yesterday! The buzz of ideas at events like this shows teaching at its finest and does wonders for both the self-perception and the image of the profession as a whole
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Jess Angell
10 months ago
A brilliant thought provoking day at
#Soane25
. Thank you to
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
& the team for putting together a jam packed day of
#History
CPD 👏 Thoroughly enjoyed all my workshops and the chance to catch up with so many wonderful
#historyteachers
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Rich
10 months ago
Back in Bristol after a brilliant day at
#Soane25
. Chapeau to
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
for organising another cracking conference. Delivering that speech at the end with Eamonn Duffy sitting in front row was one of the more marginally terrifying things I've ever done.
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Jonathan Mountstevens
10 months ago
It's quite something when Eamon Duffy is only one highlight of a conference! Terrific day at
#Soane25
. Brilliant work from the history team there once again.
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Pete Jackson
10 months ago
Really interesting session from
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
on Stalin and the Soviet Union. Love the use of powerful images and posters within the enquiry!
#Soane25
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Mike Hill
10 months ago
We go again!
#Soane25
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Michael Fordham
10 months ago
These are the examples that Ofsted need to be bombarded with over the consultation. Anyone with half an ounce of sense will see that it is a nonsense that one of these is better than the other.
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Christine Counsell
10 months ago
Give RE the status, coherence and rigour it needs, by ensuring all teachers of RE, primary & secondary, know what pupils have learned in earlier years and so can use and build on it. Our current system is inequitable. Countless children miss out.
@culhamstgabriel.bsky.social
@retoday.bsky.social
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Will Goodfellow
10 months ago
We've had over 200 sign ups on this already. The question is will
@hughrichards.bsky.social
surpass
@paulalobo.bsky.social
's 288? Over the moon with all the interest in this
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
webinar series. Plenty more to come in 2025 inc
@catherinepriggs.bsky.social
and
@egcarr.bsky.social
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Catherine Priggs
10 months ago
I've written a post for
@histassoc.bsky.social
's One Big History Department on curricular coherence 🔗
onebighistorydepartment.com/2025/01/23/b...
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Building a coherent history curriculum: why it matters and how to achieve it
Springfield Interchange (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, Virginia Department of Transportation, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) By Catherine Priggs Curricular coherence is a vital element of effective curriculum …
https://onebighistorydepartment.com/2025/01/23/building-a-coherent-history-curriculum-why-it-matters-and-how-to-achieve-it/
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Hugh Richards
10 months ago
Really excited to be doing this FREE webinar about stories in History with
@counsellc.bsky.social
- sign up if you’re interested in learning more about stories in the classroom. Some good stuff in there for teachers and HoDs alike Please RT/spread the word! Register here 👉
ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER
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Mike Hill
10 months ago
HISTORY TEACHER ROLE! Our pupils love History at Ark Soane – from Year 7 all the way up to our first Year 10 cohort, 80% of whom do History GCSE. We’re expanding and looking for another History teacher to join us next September. Could this be you? Details below! 🙂
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Mike Hill
10 months ago
We now have only ten tickets remaining. See you all soon! 🙂
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Mike Hill
11 months ago
If you have a ticket for our
#Soane25
History teacher conference, then you'll very soon get the full programme and workshop options – exciting!! Meanwhile, here is a sneak peak (with more to be revealed). 👇👁️ There are just a handful of tickets left. Link below!
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Ian Dawson
11 months ago
Great to see HA conference programme now available for May 9/10 in Liverpool. I'm delighted to see that Michael Riley is delivering the keynote education lecture on 'Why teaching about the historic environment matters more than ever'
www.haconference.com
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Historical Association Conference 2025
https://www.haconference.com/
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Dan Raven-Ellison
11 months ago
Too many people can't walk to the pub, shops, school, doctors or to see friends of family because there is no safe way to go. 7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative
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Campaigners call for right to roam on edges of private farmland in England
Group says people in rural areas have to walk on roads without pavement, which can be very dangerous
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/26/call-for-right-to-roam-on-edges-of-private-farmland-england-walking
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Michael Fordham
12 months ago
Changing Histories really is a game changer in history textbook design. Proper prose, narrative-driven, with tasks that then unpack the narrative. Far more intellectually rigorous than most textbooks which are (not always) nicely illustrated information sheets.
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Colin McCormick
11 months ago
Mike's done it again👏👏 Rich Kennett 🔥
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Mike Hill
11 months ago
🚨 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 I'm very excited to announce the keynote speakers for our
#Soane25
history teacher conference on Saturday, 8 February 2025. 👇 Read more below 👇 🎟️ Get tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
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Ed Durbin
11 months ago
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term. HIGHLIGHT #2 We taught a depth study on Chinese history for the first time to Year 7 - and it was a lot of fun...
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Ed Durbin
11 months ago
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term. HIGHLIGHT #1 Teaching
@paulalobo.bsky.social
's incredible Nur Jahan enquiry to our Year 8s for the first time...
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Christine Counsell
12 months ago
Hoorah! Can't wait for
#Soane25
! 'Building worlds' is a terrific theme for the second year of this beautiful conference and the history geeks of Ark Soane are perfect hosts. History teachers everywhere, come for a day of total sanity and joy. Not one spot of dodgy 'sourcework' in sight.
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Christine Counsell
12 months ago
Here in our Year 8 book, Expanding Worlds,
@jacobolivey.bsky.social
combines some of the above approaches. Our opening painting yields so many stories, so many worlds, and now we move into our first author, getting to know him before we plunge into the enquiry proper:
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Christine Counsell
12 months ago
History teachers and SLT, don’t forget to register for Monday’s FREE webinar, 4pm, Mon 9 December
ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb
@paulalobo.bsky.social
will use
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
to "make sources sing". But what lies behind our approach to sources in these new secondary textbooks? Here’s a 🧵 ...
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Rich
12 months ago
So excited to return to Soane. And I'm really chuffed to see two of my Ashton Park colleagues on the list of presenters.
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Adam Smith
12 months ago
Ticket booked! This was my favourite conference of last year and I am really excited to be going again.
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Cannot wait for
#Soane25
Saturday 8th February!
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#Soane25
is live! Come and join us on Saturday 8th February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers. Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!) Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
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