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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.
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.
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: 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.
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: 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: 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.
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: 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: 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.
Editable for your own use - Crime and Punishment learning grid for students
Useful for revision, self review, checking learning, focusing thinking,
Differentiated by task and linked to GCSE grades.
Useful for a planner for students to follow the course.
Useful for a homework checker of knowledge gained through course.
Written as Learning objectives from Grades 1 to 8 or G to A*
I used to get students to keep this at the front of their folders and check the learning as they progressed through the course.
Supports GCSE Crime and Punishment for GCSE on the topics of
Anglo Saxon England
Norman England
Later Middle Ages
Early Modern Britain
Industrial Britain
Twentieth Century Britain
Includes Timeline knowledge organiser of Crime and Punishment
Past exam paper questions for OCR GCSE History SHP Germany 1918-1945 Past Exam Questions - Perfect for Exam Practice - Exam Mats.
120 Past GCSE Questions for the Germany 1918-1945 Exam
From 1999 to 2015 Past Exam Paper Questions - perfect for revision, homework or exam practice,
Exam Question Type -
Describe - what
Explain - how
Assess - This led to, judge, decide, consequences
Broken down into topic area and exam question type:
Key Question 1:Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
Key Question 2: How was Hitler able to come to power in Germany?
Key Question 3(a): The Nazi regime: How effectively did the Nazis control Germany, 1933–1945?
Key Question 3(b): The Nazi regime: What was it like to live in Nazi Germany?
GCSE Weimar Germany Learning learning grid
Editable for your own use - Weimar Germany learning grid for students
Useful for revision, self review, checking learning, focusing thinking,
Differentiated by task and linked to GCSE grades.
Useful for a planner for students to follow the course.
Useful for a homework checker of knowledge gained through course.
I used to get students to keep this at the front of their folders and check the learning as they progressed through the course.
Supports GCSE Weimar Germany for all boards for new GCSE
Editable for your own use - Crime and Punishment learning grid for students
Useful for revision, self review, checking learning, focusing thinking,
Differentiated by task and linked to GCSE grades.
Useful for a planner for students to follow the course.
Useful for a homework checker of knowledge gained through course.
I used to get students to keep this at the front of their folders and check the learning as they progressed through the course.
Supports GCSE Crime and Punishment for all boards for new GCSE on the topic of Early Modern Britain.