London History Forum

Date: Saturday March 13^th 2010.

Venue: Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London

Time: 10am - 1pm.

Programme:

9.30 - 10am: Registration, coffee and biscuits.

10am - Keynote Speaker: Andrew Wrenn

10.45 - 11.45 - workshop 1: Gill O'Neill

11.45 - 12pm - coffee

12pm - 1pm - Worshop 2: Michael McIntyre.

The London History forum is a great way to enhance your CPD in a relatively painless way! The theme for the next session is cross-curricularity and Community Cohesion and the event is shaping up rather nicely! If you are working in a primary or secondary school anywhere across the south-east where history is either encouraged to be cross-curricular, or forms part of a more integrated curriculum, or you are just planning for such change -  this could be for you!

The event comprises of a keynote speech from Andrew Wrenn. Andrew Wrenn is a curriculum advisor for Cambridgeshire and the author of several cross-curricular, citizenship and history resources for both primary and secondary pupils, including this one that he will be speaking about:

Muslim Tommies of World War One; Can rigorous history teaching really support community cohesion?  

As anti-war Muslim protesters threaten to demonstrate through Wooton Basset and the English Defence League increases its support, community cohesion remains a major public concern as well an inspectable outcome for schools.

Using rarely seen letters from Indian Muslim soldiers writing home from the Western Front and little known photographs of white, British, Muslim soldiers this presentation will show how history teaching can contribute to combating both Islamist and racist extremism by reference to a long record of Muslim service in the British armed forces. 

Workshops

The keynote speech will be followed by two workshops. Gill O'Neill, who works across the curriculum and has extensive knowledge and experience of the production of cross-curricular teaching units involving history in line with the new primary curriculum proposals  will look at cross-curricularity  at Key Stage 2, moving towards Key Stage 3  and Michael McIntyre from Facing History and Ourselves will take an insightful look into community cohesion through cross-curricular models:

Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain.

To what extent has Britain's imperial legacy influenced the attitudes of host and migrant communities in the UK in the last 50 years?  What can we learn from this history about what we need to do to create a more civil society in the present and the future? This workshop will use extracts from the new Facing History and Ourselves resource book 'Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain,' particularly referencing some Muslim and Christian experiences. It will fuse aspects of History, Religious Education and Citizenship education as a way to explore these essential questions. 

CPD Certificate

Every delegate will receive a validated CPD certificate to add to performance management files, a free DVD about the people of the Great War and a free ticket to view the latest major exhibition at the British Museum. Kingdom of Ife is a  major exhibition presenting exquisite examples of brass, copper, stone and terracotta sculpture from West Africa. For exhibition information please go to...

Booking is now closed. If you would still like to attend the forum, please download the delegate information and pay on the door!