[🧵1/9] This week’s ‘deep-dive’ is our KS3 ‘Everyday School life’ resource pack created by @jonnysellin ➡️a 7-lesson enquiry exploring how everyday experiences of secondary school provide insight into Britain’s wider social history...
[🧵2/9] This enquiry is packed with things pupils already know tons about - classrooms, teachers, school dinners, uniforms - all are a way into studying social, cultural, and economic change in Britain over the past 75 years through a set of rich and diverse primary sources...
[🧵3/9] Lesson 1: Introduction - Schools and Social change in the after 1945
All packs start with this (optional) lesson on the big picture of postwar social change, feat. a timeline activity & a chance to integrate your own school’s history into the story
[🧵4/9] Lesson 2: Architecture - Were Britain’s post-war schools a failure? 🏫
Pupils explore the architectural planning & problem-solving of Britain’s postwar school builders, using contemporary newspaper reports
[🧵5/9] Lesson 3: Corporal Punishment - Who ended corporal punishment in British schools? 🥿📕
Pupils weigh up ‘top down’ & ‘bottom up’ evidence, incl. contributions of activist groups, local government, pupil & parent opinions, feat. a video with historian @ClaireLanghamer
[🧵6/9] Lesson 4: Homework - Why is it difficult to research homework? ✏️📒
Pupils tap into evidential problems w investigating the history of homework. They use school prospectuses, oral histories, timetables, & sociological material from the 1958 birth cohort @CLScohorts
[🧵7/9] Lesson 5: School Dinners - What makes school dinners so interesting to study? 🍲💵
Pupils find evidence on school dinners from set sources & situate them in wider political debates, especially re. economic change & food poverty, feat. a cameo from @MarcusRashford
[🧵8/9] Lesson 6: School Uniform - What has school uniform represented since 1945? 👖👔
Pupils look at diff experiences and opinions of school uniform over time & what it can tell us about changing postwar society. Egs incl. Glasgow mums & feminist campaigns for girls’ trousers
[🧵9/9] Lesson 7: Summing Up - What do different sources reveal about schools and society in Britain after 1945? ✅
This lesson covers all 5 topics, & works as one-off or wrapping-up. Pupils return to some previous sources to justify why schools help us to research social change
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[🧵1/10] Today for our Friday ‘deep dive’ into our KS3 history resource packs we’re looking at @hannahcusworth’s pack on ‘Race and Ethnicity’ ➡️ a 7-lesson enquiry asking:
What do secondary schools reveal about changing attitudes towards race in England since 1945?
[🧵2/10] Lessons examine experiences discrimination & how communities of colour challenged racialized inequalities & racism
Teachers, please note ➡️ this enquiry addresses racism and discrimination & some primary source materials contain racist/discriminatory language
[🧵3/10] Lesson 1: Introduction - Schools and Social change in the UK after 1945
All packs start with this (optional) lesson on the big picture of UK social change post-1945, feat. a timeline activity for pupils & a chance to integrate your own school’s history into the story
On Fridays we’ll be doing some ‘deep dives’ into our new resource packs on secondary education and social change in the UK since 1945, designed for KS3 #historyteachers and pupils, and available FOR FREE to download here:
[🧵3/9] Lesson 1: Introduction 🤓 Pupils learn the big picture of social change in the UK post-Second World War in relation to education and get an overview narrative, incl. economy, race & immigration, single sex & co-education, changing social attitudes