Drafting the new SHP OCR GCSE for 2016
Discussing the draft outline specification ...
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Securing the future of SHP history …
... and smoothing the transition to new history GCSEs in 2016. Wiith significant changes to GCSE history on the horizon, SHP and OCR are delighted to announce a major new partnership. We’ll be working together to produce the best possible, and only official, SHP specification, which will be provided exclusively by OCR. The development is being led by SHP Fellows and their Director, Michael Riley, ...
Read More »Time to transform 14-16 history
At the start of the school Easter holiday, the Department for Education finally published guidance on subject content for the new GCSEs. Ofqual also announced details of the assessment objectives for different GCSE subjects. These two documents will determine the nature of new GCSE courses from September 2016. As far as history is concerned, they will lead to the most radical shake-up of the 14-16...
Read More »SHP Support for Primary History
Michael Riley announces SHP's support for Primary History ...
Read More »Response to the consultation on the Draft National Curriculum for History
Read SHP's response to the draft National Curriculum for history, sent to the DfE by Michael Riley ...
Read More »The unthinking history curriculum
Shock, dismay, sadness, anger... these have been the reactions of many history teachers to the long-awaited review of National Curriculum for History. This is the weakest and potentially the most damaging iteration of the National Curriculum since it began in 1991 ...
Read More »Changing School History
SHP Director, Michael Riley writes "At last we’ve had an announcement on the future of the curriculum – well 14-16 at least. And for SHP, the priority now is to engage fully in the consultation process, to work with Awarding Organisations and HE bodies in the development of specifications and, further down the line, to provide the resources and professional development that will guarantee an impro...
Read More »History Around Us
How did you become fascinated by history? For me, it was Mr Mumford’s history walks. Mr Mumford, my history teacher at secondary school, liked doing history in muddy boots. In his history lessons we explored the history around us in the Central Pennines: ruined mills, handloom weavers’ cottages, pre-industrial causeways, the canal, the Roman road...
Read More »Schools History Project turns 40
This afternoon, I took my A level history group to an archaeological dig at a local Iron Age hill fort. Then, as I drove home, I reflected on how so much of what we’d done at Ham Hill was based on SHP principles ...
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