Christine Counsell
@counsellc.bsky.social
"It is the first time Gladstone and Disraeli have
met. Already, they cannot stand each other."
Inspired prose by @jacobolivey.bsky.social
I was determined to get the 1867 Reform Act into the book, but Jacob's realisation of was better than anything I'd dreamed.
met. Already, they cannot stand each other."
Inspired prose by @jacobolivey.bsky.social
I was determined to get the 1867 Reform Act into the book, but Jacob's realisation of was better than anything I'd dreamed.
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"It is the first time Gladstone and Disraeli have
met. Already, they cannot stand each other."
Inspired prose by @jacobolivey.bsky.social
I was determined to get the 1867 Reform Act into the book, but Jacob's realisation of was better than anything I'd dreamed.
met. Already, they cannot stand each other."
Inspired prose by @jacobolivey.bsky.social
I was determined to get the 1867 Reform Act into the book, but Jacob's realisation of was better than anything I'd dreamed.
Ah, mahogany in West Africa... the time, care and original research that @hannahcusworth.bsky.social put into that was unreal. But Hannah's produced the most original, thought-provoking chapter on the transatlantic slave trade I've ever seen in a general KS3 history textbook.
And oh this artwork 😍
And oh this artwork 😍
June 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ah, mahogany in West Africa... the time, care and original research that @hannahcusworth.bsky.social put into that was unreal. But Hannah's produced the most original, thought-provoking chapter on the transatlantic slave trade I've ever seen in a general KS3 history textbook.
And oh this artwork 😍
And oh this artwork 😍
Children can read a LOT, and devour text greedily. In #OpeningWorlds by Y6, pupils read c1000 words each lesson in history, geography & RE.
How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5
How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5
May 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Children can read a LOT, and devour text greedily. In #OpeningWorlds by Y6, pupils read c1000 words each lesson in history, geography & RE.
How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5
How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5
Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic...
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
May 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic...
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
When I'm asked what is the secret of the success of #ChangingHistoriesKS3 with the full attainment range, I've many answers, but it's this one feature above all – sensitivity to scholarly prose driving the flow of a lesson. See how Steve Mastin used Duffy's Voices of Morebath in Connected Worlds:
March 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
When I'm asked what is the secret of the success of #ChangingHistoriesKS3 with the full attainment range, I've many answers, but it's this one feature above all – sensitivity to scholarly prose driving the flow of a lesson. See how Steve Mastin used Duffy's Voices of Morebath in Connected Worlds:
A very slightly puzzled Harold Macmillan. Love the way Paula integrates a political backcloth with the undercurrents of socio-economic change as the long winter of 62/3 continues. What disappears with the snow and what abides? #Soane25
February 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A very slightly puzzled Harold Macmillan. Love the way Paula integrates a political backcloth with the undercurrents of socio-economic change as the long winter of 62/3 continues. What disappears with the snow and what abides? #Soane25
Now Paula is showing how a focus on the 62/3 winter prepares Y9 for a wider focus on #climatechange. In Bk 3 of #ChangingHistories (Fragile Worlds) Paula's chapter on this frozen world lays foundations for a later one sustaining the environmental theme through histories of woods and woodlands.
February 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Now Paula is showing how a focus on the 62/3 winter prepares Y9 for a wider focus on #climatechange. In Bk 3 of #ChangingHistories (Fragile Worlds) Paula's chapter on this frozen world lays foundations for a later one sustaining the environmental theme through histories of woods and woodlands.
Well no surprise that this did not disappoint. @paulalobo.bsky.social walked us through scholarship relevant to the big freeze of 1962-3 and showed us how to craft stories that enchant her Y9 pupils with the silent, frozen world and the sizzling, shocking sixties that emerged from it #Soane25
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Well no surprise that this did not disappoint. @paulalobo.bsky.social walked us through scholarship relevant to the big freeze of 1962-3 and showed us how to craft stories that enchant her Y9 pupils with the silent, frozen world and the sizzling, shocking sixties that emerged from it #Soane25
Excited to present at #Soane25 Building Worlds conference tomorrow. My session on enquiry questions, knowledge and worldbuilding should prob have a sneaky sub-title:
"259 reasons why the ITT & ECT core content needs a massive reboot, because where history is concerned it is (mostly) WRONG! "
"259 reasons why the ITT & ECT core content needs a massive reboot, because where history is concerned it is (mostly) WRONG! "
February 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Excited to present at #Soane25 Building Worlds conference tomorrow. My session on enquiry questions, knowledge and worldbuilding should prob have a sneaky sub-title:
"259 reasons why the ITT & ECT core content needs a massive reboot, because where history is concerned it is (mostly) WRONG! "
"259 reasons why the ITT & ECT core content needs a massive reboot, because where history is concerned it is (mostly) WRONG! "
'Using stories in the history classroom' is well under way and @hughrichards.bsky.social is nailing the role of stories in making a broad, diverse curriculum coherent. In a v little time (just 2 mins) we're in Norman Sicily and pupils' stereotype of the Normans has exploded. #ChangingHistoriesKS3
February 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'Using stories in the history classroom' is well under way and @hughrichards.bsky.social is nailing the role of stories in making a broad, diverse curriculum coherent. In a v little time (just 2 mins) we're in Norman Sicily and pupils' stereotype of the Normans has exploded. #ChangingHistoriesKS3
All the stories feature in #ChangingHistoriesKS3 and I'm indebted to this amazing team, who have worked so hard and so collaboratively, to all the historians are helping us along the way and, of course, to the best of publishers – our #FriendOfHistoryTeachers @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social 🧵fin
February 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
All the stories feature in #ChangingHistoriesKS3 and I'm indebted to this amazing team, who have worked so hard and so collaboratively, to all the historians are helping us along the way and, of course, to the best of publishers – our #FriendOfHistoryTeachers @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social 🧵fin
Above all, Hugh will be telling lots of lovely stories. These include completely fresh ways to teach topics such as the industrial revolution (and thanks to @richkhistory.bsky.social for giving me the idea of using the Lunar Men, a v long time ago!)
February 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Above all, Hugh will be telling lots of lovely stories. These include completely fresh ways to teach topics such as the industrial revolution (and thanks to @richkhistory.bsky.social for giving me the idea of using the Lunar Men, a v long time ago!)
As well as showing how to fold them into lesson sequences, @hughrichards.bsky.social will explain the really practical stuff on how to make them work in a classroom, and with ALL pupils. He draws on his own skill and that of our terrific team eg @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @salwilson11.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As well as showing how to fold them into lesson sequences, @hughrichards.bsky.social will explain the really practical stuff on how to make them work in a classroom, and with ALL pupils. He draws on his own skill and that of our terrific team eg @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @salwilson11.bsky.social
Hugh draws on stories written by the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 team which includes talented history authors from across England, including @willbaileywatson.bsky.social @hannahcusworth.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social & many others who know how to make stories work in classrooms.
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hugh draws on stories written by the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 team which includes talented history authors from across England, including @willbaileywatson.bsky.social @hannahcusworth.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social & many others who know how to make stories work in classrooms.
I've had sneak peak at @hughrichards.bsky.social slides and ...
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've had sneak peak at @hughrichards.bsky.social slides and ...
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Announced two days ago and 92 takers already! Please join @emmaturner75.bsky.social, Ruth Miskin and me at the
"Read widely, fluently & willingly" conference, a collaboration with Accomplish MAT, on 24th April in Wakefield.
Book your place here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Places are limited ✨
"Read widely, fluently & willingly" conference, a collaboration with Accomplish MAT, on 24th April in Wakefield.
Book your place here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Places are limited ✨
December 18, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Announced two days ago and 92 takers already! Please join @emmaturner75.bsky.social, Ruth Miskin and me at the
"Read widely, fluently & willingly" conference, a collaboration with Accomplish MAT, on 24th April in Wakefield.
Book your place here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Places are limited ✨
"Read widely, fluently & willingly" conference, a collaboration with Accomplish MAT, on 24th April in Wakefield.
Book your place here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Places are limited ✨
Here @paulalobo.bsky.social shows how she gets her Year 7 pupils to draw their conclusions together at the end of the Inkas enquiry, and how she keeps up the conversation through feedback.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Here @paulalobo.bsky.social shows how she gets her Year 7 pupils to draw their conclusions together at the end of the Inkas enquiry, and how she keeps up the conversation through feedback.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Now @paulalobo.bsky.social is explaining how she steers pupils into being constructive with sources. She steadily engages them with a specific puzzle, and shuts down the possibility that her pupils might parrot formulae or look for quick, easy answers.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Now @paulalobo.bsky.social is explaining how she steers pupils into being constructive with sources. She steadily engages them with a specific puzzle, and shuts down the possibility that her pupils might parrot formulae or look for quick, easy answers.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Using a collection of connected but varied sources.
Sticking with one enquiry question and thinking about it freshly, each lesson, as the range of sources expands and the puzzle unfolds.
@paulalobo.bsky.social on how she shapes her Year 7 enquiry on the Inkas.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Sticking with one enquiry question and thinking about it freshly, each lesson, as the range of sources expands and the puzzle unfolds.
@paulalobo.bsky.social on how she shapes her Year 7 enquiry on the Inkas.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Using a collection of connected but varied sources.
Sticking with one enquiry question and thinking about it freshly, each lesson, as the range of sources expands and the puzzle unfolds.
@paulalobo.bsky.social on how she shapes her Year 7 enquiry on the Inkas.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Sticking with one enquiry question and thinking about it freshly, each lesson, as the range of sources expands and the puzzle unfolds.
@paulalobo.bsky.social on how she shapes her Year 7 enquiry on the Inkas.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
"Margaret Paston wasn't one to panic". @paulalobo.bsky.social uses sources to bring out Margaret Paston's personality, and at the same time to soak pupils in the material culture – Margaret asks for sugar, almonds & crossbows in the same letter – that the Paston letters reveal
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
"Margaret Paston wasn't one to panic". @paulalobo.bsky.social uses sources to bring out Margaret Paston's personality, and at the same time to soak pupils in the material culture – Margaret asks for sugar, almonds & crossbows in the same letter – that the Paston letters reveal
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Now @paulalobo.bsky.social unpacks how she avoids talking about 'sourcework', implying a set of dry exercises. Instead, she first steeps her pupils in context and, through this narrative and world-painting, she makes them eager to encounter the Paston letters as sources.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Now @paulalobo.bsky.social unpacks how she avoids talking about 'sourcework', implying a set of dry exercises. Instead, she first steeps her pupils in context and, through this narrative and world-painting, she makes them eager to encounter the Paston letters as sources.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
Our webinar on using sources is underway and @paulalobo.bsky.social is walking us through how she used the work of historian Helen Castor to shape her Year 7 pupils' study of the Paston letters.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
December 9, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Our webinar on using sources is underway and @paulalobo.bsky.social is walking us through how she used the work of historian Helen Castor to shape her Year 7 pupils' study of the Paston letters.
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
If you’d like to join those teachers who already defy a decades-old trend of reducing history's riches to ‘sourcework’, join Paula this Monday, 4pm for the 2nd in our series of webinars using #ChangingHistoriesKS3, all about great history teaching. Do register & listen later ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb
🧵End!
🧵End!
December 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
If you’d like to join those teachers who already defy a decades-old trend of reducing history's riches to ‘sourcework’, join Paula this Monday, 4pm for the 2nd in our series of webinars using #ChangingHistoriesKS3, all about great history teaching. Do register & listen later ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb
🧵End!
🧵End!
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:
December 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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:
And what about spending serious time with a single painting, one to which you keep returning, as a springboard. See how Paula prepares her pupils to look at that painting. It allows her to climb into one woman’s story and, through it, into the big story of the Renaissance.
December 6, 2024 at 4:06 PM
And what about spending serious time with a single painting, one to which you keep returning, as a springboard. See how Paula prepares her pupils to look at that painting. It allows her to climb into one woman’s story and, through it, into the big story of the Renaissance.