Rosie Culkin-Smith

Yes! Sorry should have been a bit more clear

Seeing an interesting/partially worrying trend with Year 9 taking History as an options subject this year. Interested to see if this is reflected nationally?

Didn’t know you were there today! Would have liked to say hello! What a fab day it was

En route down south for #Soane25 excited is an understatement

We’re on the writing lesson of our 17th century enquiry ‘How much did Samuel Pepys’ world really change?’

Today we were crafting concluding sentences and I asked for a volunteer to add an appositive after Pepys name.

A student puts their hand up: ‘What about “Samuel Pepys, a historians dream”’😂

Start sensible at least 😂

So I guess it’s back to ‘making lessons more fun’ tomorrow. He’s my ins and outs for 2025:

Tickets booked! Absolutely cannot wait for this, what a line up. #Soane25 > Glasto

Literally

I’m currently working on a similarities and difference re-write so will keep you in the loop 🙏🏼

Be really interesting for anyone planning to tweaking enquiries on empire

I’ve just set my alarm for 4:30 tomorrow so I can get stuff done that’s crucial for the day. Why is this term like this every year 😂😮‍💨🥹🙃

Thank god Novembers done 🥹😮‍💨

Loving this, it’s reading like a page turny novel

Waking up to lots of new followers on here this morning!

Hello! I’m Rosie, looking to connect on all things history teaching.

I’m not that organised to post stuff all the time but always up for chatting/swapping resources #historyteachersUK

Why don’t we have set texts in history? Short extracts of sources or interpretations have been a feature of history exams for decades, and, I would argue, they have never been done well. For those unfamiliar with how this works, in most …

2. On the subject of evidence and interpretations, I think @michaelfordham.bsky.social's points about the potential for set texts in history are still really persuasive. clioetcetera.com/2015/06/20/w...

Picking the answers that are most in need of feedback (max 3) and going through these as WCF. All other misconceptions followed up in later re-teaching/retrievals etc

So, are we officially all communicating on Bluesky now? Is X/Twitter in the bin?

Can you help me share some great news?
The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended!

We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role.

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You don’t have to ask me twice…

Thanks for this! It is tough isn’t it, lots to think about

Calling all teachers of AQA history GCSE 📣

How do you approach the (dreaded) source utility Q in the Conflict and Tension paper…

Keen to gather some thoughts/ideas/areas of success

One thing I love about September, I just being in the classroom teaching bloody good lessons!

I just want to bottle up the expectant energy & initial enthusiasm that a new term brings!

Saw @edurbin.bsky.social post about this and couldn’t agree more.

GCSE source Q’s distort students understanding of the discipline and puts them off what is possibly the most fascinating part of our subject!

Come on Labour 👀

Couldn’t agree more. I think it also distorts students disciplinary understanding and switches many of them off what is possibly the MOST interesting part!

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Mourning the loss of the long lie ins, but at least i get to hear ‘FIRE HER UP, LETS GO!’ in the morning. IYKYK

Rhodes Old Town for me (dragged myself from my sun lounger for an afternoon). Loved seeing the blend of Byzantine/Christian/Ottoman influences

Similar to a lot of the posts above. I also try to use it for paragraph/exam question planning. Getting students to start with some simple sentence construction/practice ideas prior to putting pen to paper and removing the fear of failure. Great opportunity for quick verbal FB and redrafting also!

Such sad news. Helen was an inspiration. Sending love to all of her family and friends at this sad time ❤️

Me 👋🏼