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History teacher. @histassoc fellow & trustee. Deputy head. Member of the Tortured Poets Department.
Jun 20, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
This week we ran a history trip to Chepstow Castle. I spent a long time thinking about effective trips and tried to address these. A 🧵 I think trips can be problematic if:
- they aren't integrated into the curriculum
- kids don't have enough contextual knowledge to understand what they see
- historical thinking is ignored.
Jun 19, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Glorious day out at Chepstow Castle.

My Y10s think this pigeon who is following us is the spirit of William FitzOsbern. I'm happy they even remembered his name. ImageImage I also love that loads of my 15 year old class bought wooden swords and are pretending to be knights 😂