@benarscott.bsky.social
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🚨 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 👇
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 👇
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 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 👇
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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Just finished Ben Arscott’s piece on unpacking the enquiry puzzle in TH198.
Found myself nodding at a few bits: the difficulty on setting a good EQ and the need to focus carefully on the pupil experience.
However I would like to raise some points in the spirit of critical debate /1
Found myself nodding at a few bits: the difficulty on setting a good EQ and the need to focus carefully on the pupil experience.
However I would like to raise some points in the spirit of critical debate /1
April 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Just finished Ben Arscott’s piece on unpacking the enquiry puzzle in TH198.
Found myself nodding at a few bits: the difficulty on setting a good EQ and the need to focus carefully on the pupil experience.
However I would like to raise some points in the spirit of critical debate /1
Found myself nodding at a few bits: the difficulty on setting a good EQ and the need to focus carefully on the pupil experience.
However I would like to raise some points in the spirit of critical debate /1
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Do you remember when we stopped using levels and for a while lots of schools went mad creating even worse versions of levels but with colours and bizarre labels, and measuring things that shouldn’t be measured? Seems a fitting time to mention that happened.
November 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Do you remember when we stopped using levels and for a while lots of schools went mad creating even worse versions of levels but with colours and bizarre labels, and measuring things that shouldn’t be measured? Seems a fitting time to mention that happened.
Such an important point made so pithily: "Resist common headings across subjects". So much unnecessary confusion is caused across the sector by a desire for neat and consistent ways to capture and present curricula.
My @schoolsweek.bsky.social piece on curriculum reviews. If we learn from 35 yrs of them, we might avoid the ever-recurring problems. But without strong subject-curricular training, espec for senior/system leaders, the finest rubric will still feed old distortions.
schoolsweek.co.uk/what-a-natio...
schoolsweek.co.uk/what-a-natio...
Four ways the Francis review can succeed where others failed
In the first instalment of our new series, Chirstine Counsell draws lessons from 35 years of attempted reform
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 18, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Such an important point made so pithily: "Resist common headings across subjects". So much unnecessary confusion is caused across the sector by a desire for neat and consistent ways to capture and present curricula.
This list of chapter titles looks brilliant. So exciting that pupils around the country can be immersed in these stories.
Today is contents reveal day for Book 2 (Year 8) of my #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series - Expanding Worlds. Excited and proud to have worked with such a dedicated and inspiring team of authors. If you want to see how the sequel to Connected Worlds will look, here you go: ow.ly/ctbe50TyXvz
October 2, 2024 at 7:41 AM
This list of chapter titles looks brilliant. So exciting that pupils around the country can be immersed in these stories.
A brilliant blog which really hits the nail on the head of the pitfalls of using assessment materials to teach. [Effective teaching] "needs the space created by not imitating the assessment over and over"
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'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
On reading assessment, reading comprehension tests, and a call for different practice in schools.
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
On reading assessment, reading comprehension tests, and a call for different practice in schools.
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
Streaked tenrecs and improving reading
Have you ever seen a ‘streaky tenrec’? Probably not. For pupils sitting the key stage 2 SATs reading assessment, they likely met the tenrec and the wildlife of Madagascar for the first time.
The fir...
alexquigley.co.uk
September 15, 2024 at 6:03 PM
A brilliant blog which really hits the nail on the head of the pitfalls of using assessment materials to teach. [Effective teaching] "needs the space created by not imitating the assessment over and over"
Really enjoyed @stulock.bsky.social 's session on best bets. He suggests trying to separate the decision from the results: can you think of a good decision you've made which didn't lead to a good outcome?
September 7, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Really enjoyed @stulock.bsky.social 's session on best bets. He suggests trying to separate the decision from the results: can you think of a good decision you've made which didn't lead to a good outcome?
Great session from @priteshraichura.bsky.social at #rED24 on getting 100% attention. "There's always a vacuum when creating a classroom culture. Either the teacher fills the vacuum or the pupils do."
September 7, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Great session from @priteshraichura.bsky.social at #rED24 on getting 100% attention. "There's always a vacuum when creating a classroom culture. Either the teacher fills the vacuum or the pupils do."
In session 2 at #rED24, @summerturner.bsky.social challenges some of the questionable uses of CPD time and identifies some solutions.
September 7, 2024 at 9:29 AM
In session 2 at #rED24, @summerturner.bsky.social challenges some of the questionable uses of CPD time and identifies some solutions.
On the train for #rED24. In session 1, we'll be talking all things KS2 writing, subject communities and thorny questions about assessing writing. Plus we'll be sharing our draft anthology of annotated Y3 writing.
September 7, 2024 at 6:48 AM
On the train for #rED24. In session 1, we'll be talking all things KS2 writing, subject communities and thorny questions about assessing writing. Plus we'll be sharing our draft anthology of annotated Y3 writing.
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We are going to be at #REd24 #ResearchEd National Conference.
Session 1, M23
Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.
Session 1, M23
Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.
September 5, 2024 at 10:01 AM
We are going to be at #REd24 #ResearchEd National Conference.
Session 1, M23
Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.
Session 1, M23
Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.
Excited to be attending this. @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social , Hannah Milton and I will be discussing the work we've been doing on trying to improve KS2 writing outcomes across Norwich. We've been doing this by trying to build communities of practice across the city. We'll be in M27 during session 1.
For the BlueSky people- the researchED 2024 program is FINALLY HERE. I’ll send out the downloadable link later this evening. It’s a MONSTER
September 4, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Excited to be attending this. @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social , Hannah Milton and I will be discussing the work we've been doing on trying to improve KS2 writing outcomes across Norwich. We've been doing this by trying to build communities of practice across the city. We'll be in M27 during session 1.
I'm very saddened by this news. I never met Helen in person but her work has been a huge influence on me. Particularly poignant as this summer I have been reworking an enquiry on the seventeenth century inspired by her brilliant EQ: What mattered to people during the seventeenth century?
Desperately sad and struggling to comprehend a world without the distinctive voice that was Helen Snelson. But she lives on in the classrooms of countless history teachers – in York, around Britain, across Europe – profoundly touched by her exceptional care, courageous insight and boundless vision.
September 2, 2024 at 8:53 PM
I'm very saddened by this news. I never met Helen in person but her work has been a huge influence on me. Particularly poignant as this summer I have been reworking an enquiry on the seventeenth century inspired by her brilliant EQ: What mattered to people during the seventeenth century?