Conference Programme

The full, draft Conference Programme is available – to download  [ click here ].

To download the Conference Flier, including an outline programme  [ click here ].

Plenaries At A Glance

The list of plenaries is:

• Andrew Wrenn: Growing Remembrance: Designing for the Future

• Simon Schama: School history, nationhood and the new national curriculum (tbc)

• Euroclio: Can history education go beyond borders?

• Ian Dawson: What did the Anglo-Saxons ever do for us?

• Chris Culpin: ’Here we go again‘ – planning for the next national curriculum

Workshops At A Glance

This year, there is a strong focus on challenging end engaging learners of all abilities, making history matter to young people and on e-learning.

• Wrestling with enquiry questions: Linking content and concept in medium-term planning Christine Counsell

• ‘A nice cup of tea’: Adding engagement and coherence to your scheme of work on Industrial Britain Richard McFahn

• ‘I forget what I was taught, I only remember what I’ve learnt’: Active learning at A level
Dale Banham and Russell Hall

• Predicting the Past: Using ignorance, knowledge and The National Archives to produce deep learning Andrew Payne and Ben Walsh

• Personalised without the paperwork Joe Smith

• Ancient history - is your department ready to branch out? Steve Mastin

• Putting the Vavavoom into Versailles Ben Walsh and Esther Arnott

• Diversity – the heart of the subject? Richard Harris

• ‘I've started so I'll finish’ Jamie Byrom

• ‘Much to learn you still have’ – Mastery Learning in a linear universe John Stanier

• Keeping it real: Engaging, exciting and raising the achievement of challenging low-attainers at GCSE Martin Spafford

• ‘Miss, is that a symbolic, directional or theoretical milestone?’ Helping our pupils to find the argument in change and continuity Rachel Foster

• Taking to the streets: Using the history of protest to develop historical thinking across the key stages Jo Philpott and Luke Mayhew

• Bringing Our Own Devices Sally Thorne

• Deeper thinking, better writing at A level Diana Laffin

• Teaching about the Holocaust and human behaviour: Placing history at the heart of children’s decisions about their values and actions Michael McIntyre and Martin Spafford

• Using historic sites: combining on-site visits, archival sources and new technology Mary Mills and Lynne Minett

• Remembering the Great War: linking the local to the national and global Dean Smart

• Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror, though I’m sure something happened in-between… change and continuity in Britain in the first millennium Michael Fordham

• ‘Teaching through sources‘: Using source-driven enquiry to resolve the tension between teaching content and embedding rigorous historical analysis at GCSE Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale

• Individual voices: new Holocaust education resources from the IOE  Kay Andrews

• Effective history teaching using mobile devices Nick Dennis

• Picturing the past: Helping students to think and communicate using visual media Richard Kennett

• Untangling the web - research skills in History in the age of the internet Steve Illingworth

• The power of two Dan Lyndon and Donald Cumming

• History Around Us… History Underneath Us! Richard Kerridge and Carenza Lewis

• Representations of History in Edexcel Controlled Assessment in History A and B. What are the pitfalls and the routes to help all students achieve their potential? Angela Leonard

• AQA Workshop Jon Cloake