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Here you will find low cost teaching & learning resources that will engage, challenge and make history accessible to all.
I have taught History & RE in secondary schools for the last 20 years.
CPD presenter, author & GCSE examiner. Former Head of History, GnT, Literacy & Study Support Co-ordinator.
Thank you for visiting my store.
Here you will find low cost teaching & learning resources that will engage, challenge and make history accessible to all.
I have taught History & RE in secondary schools for the last 20 years.
CPD presenter, author & GCSE examiner. Former Head of History, GnT, Literacy & Study Support Co-ordinator.
Individual Educational Plan to specifically support SEND students. Use the strategies in your lessons to differentiate for SEND students. These plans were drawn up to support in Humanities lessons but would transfer to other subjects.
Local Authority, Ofsted have said that is is exemplary SEND practice.
I have written codes for the below areas of need. On your lesson plan write the code and the strategy number next to the initials of the child. Keep the IEPs in your teaching file with the students name on.
Practical strategies that support the new SEND code of practice.
Various strategies to use in lessons depending on the need of the child.
Area of SEND need covered includes:
SPLD Dyslexia
General Literacy difficulties
Dyscalculia
Dyspraxia
ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
BESD Behavioural, Emotional and Social difficulties including
ODD Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Autism
Asperger Syndrome
Hearing Impaired
Editable file to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941–91
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941–91
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Need a Key Stage 3 History Overview for your department?
Look no further -
This includes National Curriculum overview for History inline with the current National Curriculum requirements (since 2014). Designed for a three year key stage 3.
Use this document as your mid term planning to focus units of work.
Includes a History department vision for the department.
Enquiry questions for topic focuses. Second order concepts mapped out in key concepts and processes. Curriculum opportunites covered. Assessment opportunities.
Assessment focuses on Thinking Historically, Exploring Interpretations and Historical Enquiry.
Former Head of Department with 12 years HoD experience.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The reigns of King Richard I and King John 1189–1216
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The reigns of King Richard I and King John 1189–1216
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
NEW for 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Medicine plus Depth & Period Units
Topics include:
Thematic study and historic environment
• Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches.
British depth study
• Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88
• The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216
• Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88.
Period study options:
• Spain and the ‘New World’, c1490–c1555
• British America, 1713–83: empire and revolution
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
• Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95.
Modern Depth Study:
• Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
• Mao’s China, 1945–76
• The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
Student friendly Course Content lists, Revision lists, Course organiser for students
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Save time with this prepared editable pupil voice questionnaire to hand out to students to fill in.
Hand out to students to fill in (anonymous only Month/Year of birth recorded)
Use the findings to inform department planning and strategy
Build up from the every child matters pupil voice agenda
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Raising GCSE Grades: 25 Successful Intervention Strategies to raise attainment in school
25 ideas to use whole school to raise attainment in GCSE subjects.
Strategies for SLT, Middle Leaders and classroom teachers to use to improve GCSE results.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Warfare and British society, c1250–present
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Warfare and British society, c1250–present
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
NEW for 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Crime plus Depth, Period & MWH Units
Topics include:
Thematic study and historic environment
• Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present and Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: crime, policing and the inner city.
British depth study
• Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88
• The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216
• Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88.
Period study options:
• Spain and the ‘New World’, c1490–c1555
• British America, 1713–83: empire and revolution
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
• Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95.
Modern Depth Study:
• Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
• Mao’s China, 1945–76
• The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
Student friendly Course Content lists, Revision lists, Course organiser for students
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The American West, c1835–c1895
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: The American West, c1835–c1895
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Great Revision Game for the whole class to enjoy on the topic of Germany 1918-1945
Warn your colleagues this game can get LOUD from the engagement involved
Divide the class into two teams
Place two chairs in front of the IWB
Each team decides on a Team Captain
Decide who will be your Team Captain
Team Captain will sit in front of the IWB with their back to it
Team 1 or 2- a slide will appear – and the TEAM must describe the word, person, event to your team captain - shout out clues to help the Team Captain guess
No saying the word, person or event. No rhyming. No sounds like.
Team Captain must guess the word, event or person in under 20 seconds.
You will have only have 20 seconds to give them clues.
Use your knowledge and skills to describe the word, person or event
Teacher times the 20 seconds
For each word you only get 20 seconds to help the Team Captain Guess
Words appear on the PowerPoint slide
10 points per correctly guessed word
Bonus 20 points if the Team Captain can share a knowledge gem about the word after guessing
You can move from slide to slide or you can use the spin slide for random slides appearing.
Spin - view PPT as normal then press s for stop or start and esc to end the PPT will spin the slides.
Perfect revision game for new specifications covering Germany 1918-1945 to help prepare student knowledge for the linear exams.