The Whole Brain Child
Read this over the best course of a year or so. Everytime I picked it up I walked away feeling energised as a parent and ready to try out...
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera
Read as part of my continued participation in The History Teacher Book Club on Twitter. And again, another excellent read. Notes are...
Operation Pedestal, Max Hastings
Malta a strategic point in the middle of the Med. Frustrated Italian and German efforts to supply their African campaigns. However. By...
Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1971 - 1918 by Katja Hoyer
A very enjoyable read, it came second in the ‘History Teacher Book Club’ vote but I was so keen to get it read I read it alongside the...
Why don't students like school? Chapter 3 - CPD Session
Moving from Working to Long-Term Memory (from Why Don’t Students like School, Daniel T. Willingham) The initial example is about a...
King John, by Marc Morris
King John, by Marc Morris I rediscovered these notes while looking for my Anglo-Saxon notes. So this was a little bonus discovery. I made...
Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
The Anglo-Saxons, by Marc Morris. Again, another superb read recommended by the History Teacher’s Book Club. Ag ain, an era I knew little...
Red Metal, by Mark Greaney & Lt Col. H Ripley Rawlings IV.
What is it about? War between the West and Russia. Who wrote it? Mark Greaney, a military thriller author who was written some of the...
Not being afraid to provide challenging texts in the classroom
I recently watched the fantastic tutorial delivered by Mary Myatt (find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIBOt3NIN6k) about...
Do schools kill creativity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U What does Sir Ken’s TED talk state? Sir Ken highlights that education is seen as having value...
