Schools History Project

Friday 3 July - Sunday 5 July 2009 at Leeds Trinity & All Saints - Three days of inspiring professional development!

For a more detailed look at what will be offered at this year's Conference please go to SHP Website and click on the Programme link.

Why you shouldn't miss the 2009 SHP Conference.

• This year's Conference takes place just before teaching is due to start on the new GCSE and A2, and at the end of the first year of teaching the new Key Stage 3 and AS. Come and pick up all the latest news and thinking on the changes in school history.
• A wide range of plenary sessions will focus on the big issues of the day as well as providing practical strategies for effective teaching. This years' plenary speakers include Ian Luff on history and PLTS, the historian Helen Castor on writing history, Jo Philpott on teaching and learning, Mike Madison HMI on history in the whole curriculum, Helena Dovey on making history the hub of the curriculum and Donald Cumming on using SHP principles to bring about whole school improvements in learning.
• There are over thirty workshops from some of the country's greatest teachers and history educators. Workshops cover a range of topics across KS3, GCSE and A level. There is a strong focus on making history meaningful and engaging, e-learning and on teaching about diversity. You will be able to attend five workshops and will leave with a range of practical strategies and resources for developing history in your school. See below for some tasters of this year's workshops.
• The conference has a one-stop resources exhibition, providing a great opportunity to review the publishers' new resources and to talk through your resources needs.
• Each of the Awarding Bodies will present ideas for planning and teaching their new GCSE specifications.
• And for those of you who enjoy dressing up, on Saturday evening you can investigate the death of Edward II with direction from Ian Dawson. Who could resist?   
• The new SHP Website will be launched at this year's conference.

WORKSHOPS

• Building exciting enquiries for the new GCSEs
• Planning local history enquiries at Key Stage 3
• Using songs to develop historical thinking
• Making history meaningful
• Creating a ‘virtual academy' for history
• Active learning strategies for raising attainment in the new GCSE
• Planning for progression in change/ continuity and diversity at Key Stage 3
• Making the most of collapsed timetable days for history
• Helping students to become confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective learners through history
• Teaching about the Cold War
• Planning for the new medicine development study
• Planning and teaching the new A2s
• Raising achievement in GCSE History through e-learning
• Rigorous cross-curricular planning in the new curriculum
• Using the power of ICT at KS3
• Developing pupils' independent enquiry skills
• Women's history
• Diversity in history
• Engaging Year 8 with the witch-craze and real historians
• Voices of Morebath: Using the work of Eamon Duffy to bring a sixteenth century village to life
• Teaching the Holocaust

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