Catherine Priggs

It was a pleasure to host @catherinepriggs.bsky.social at Avanti Grange and a great opportunity to showcase our curriculum, drawing so much on the brilliant #ChangingHistoriesKS3

Part 2: Curriculum & Team Leadership – putting vision into practice
📅 10 Dec 2025, 2–4pm
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Leading Secondary History From Vision to Practice (Session 1 of 2) - HEP Booking Hub Haringey Education Partnership supports all schools and phases wherever you are on your journey, working as part of a family of schools.

Part 1: Vision & Strategy – shaping an effective, thoughtful history department
📅 12 Nov 2025, 2–4pm
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Excited to be leading a two-part webinar series with @haringeyeduc.bsky.social on leading secondary history - helping subject leaders turn vision into practice.

Perfect current and aspiring history leads & SLT wanting to strengthen subject leadership in their schools.

Links below 👇

#ChangingHistoriesKS3 is improving history curriculums in schools across the country. A huge thank you to @catherinepriggs.bsky.social for her reflections on the impact the Changing Histories curriculum is having on the pupils at Avanti Grange School. www.hachettelearning.com/blog/when-th...

Please encourage your #ITT beginning teachers to sign up for an attend this webinar.

Thank you so much, Vic! This is such a lovely review - exactly what we were aiming for, so absolutely thrilled it landed this way for you.

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Many of us involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation have been keen to see subject, & distinctive nature of our discipline, re-centred in the recent focus on instructional coaching & core-practices in schools. It was brilliant, therefore, to read 'Secondary History in Action'. 1/

So so lovely to see you, Julie. Always a treat. Shame it wasn’t longer!

The recording should be on You Tube in a few weeks. If you dm your registration email address to me I’ll check Hachette have it on their list 😌

As I said in my lecture on Weds eve, receiving the Medlicott medal for services to history has been deeply special for me, not least because it allows me to celebrate and promote the importance of subject communities. We would be nowhere without @histassoc.bsky.social. Thank you HA. You're the best.

Thanks so much, Rachel! 🙏 Really glad the scenarios helped to model what we discuss.

71. I was delighted to get my hands on this! A book I really wish I'd had access to as a young history teacher. Extremely thorough and in-depth but I also loved the scenarios and practical lesson/scheme exemplars. Excellent read.

This short thread by Cat Priggs made me think:
History planning is about tying things together into a shape, a flow – usually a story & often a parallel flow of the analytic direction created by the EQ. It isn't about breaking things up into propositions and it's rarely about teaching a procedure.

This series sets the bar high for ensuring pupils of all abilities and backgrounds can access rigorous, compelling school history.
@willgoodfellow82.bsky.social

By the end of the lesson, pupils were making thoughtful contributions about the rulers of this period and their struggles.

Every pupil in a mixed-ability comprehensive class was engaged. One girl even whispered to her partner three times, “I LOVE stories!”

- Reflected on the White Ship disaster and the consequences of the loss of Henry’s heir, William Atheling
- Explored ‘the Anarchy’ or “nineteen long winters” - a civil war between Stephen and Matilda - and how it affected ordinary people

The chapter ties everything together into one rich and accessible narrative.

In just one lesson, we:
- Unpicked the chaos after William I’s death
- Learnt how Henry I restored stability in England and Normandy…

Had such a great time teaching Year 7 today! We explored England from 1087 to 1154 - a whirlwind of power struggles, a fractured empire, and civil war - using @counsellc.bsky.social’s chapter ‘Meanwhile, back in Norman England: Struggling for control after 1087’ from #ChangingHistoriesKS3

There's just one more day to sign up to our free Changing Histories webinar.

Join @catherinepriggs.bsky.social & @egcarr.bsky.social on planning and teaching lesson sequences.

Register here: bit.ly/4nrA8Mv

It will be really good. @catherinepriggs.bsky.social and @egcarr.bsky.social are brilliant at explaining how to integrate rich extended story with critical disciplinary thinking. They explain the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series really well, giving great practical tips.

Still time to sign up for this - free history teaching inspiration (we hope) to set you up before the summer break!

Deeper background for anyone teaching about Henry V at KS3 or A level - how one family was involved in parliamentary discussions, recruitment, mustering, preparations for departure:
How did the Redmayns experience the preparations for war 1414-1415?
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You were in my thoughts! So grateful to have started this journey with you - so much fun!

Thanks so much, Emmy! 🙏❤️

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Thanks so much, Sitara! Xx

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Thanks so much, Claire! Really hope it’s useful to you all!