Great people make great schools. And there are none greater than the St Chris Cafe legends!
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Head of Faculty | Chartered History Teacher & Historian | Global Edruptor Award | FIoL | FCCT | FRSA | CTHist
Great people make great schools. And there are none greater than the St Chris Cafe legends!
They bring the good vibes, big smiles, friendly faces and GREAT COFFEE! ☕️ 🇧🇭 🥐 🫖
‘NEP demonstrated a struggle in Lenin’s mind between the need to accommodate the shortcomings of the revolution and reintegrate state with society, and yet to hold onto the essentials of Bolshevism and preserve as much as possible of what had been achieved.’
Historian James Ryan
This is where all the HISTORY HAPPENS! 💥 🔥 💪
19.03.2025 11:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘Geography is the backdrop to human history itself.’
Robert D. Kaplan in ‘The Revenge of Geography’
Classroom washing lines: some excellent work from our IB historians on the rise of an authoritarian state in Germany. Bravo! 👏 🔥 🧼
05.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Historian E.P. Thompson had very little time for counterfactuals, labelling them ‘unhistorical *%#*’. 😮
That notwithstanding (!), some of the greatest pedagogic utility I have leveraged out of AI / LLMs thus far has been to generate counterfactuals as starter activities. #AI
Amazing student-baked treats with our Sixth Form Historians. 😋 🇧🇭 👍
20.02.2025 06:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exploring the beauty of Bahrain National Museum! 🇧🇭
18.02.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great news for Leicester & those that love her unique & eclectic architecture.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jolly diplomatic … 🤭
14.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Better than New Walk & Newarke House?
14.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Those gunnies would do some serious damage, too … 😳
09.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All the fun of the Future Learning Summit comes to St Christopher's School this weekend! Good luck to Lauren Binnington & the organising team. We are all very excited about this! #FLS #StChris #FutureLearningSummit
05.02.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘It was no accident that Orwell’s Big Brother had a Stalin-like moustache.’
Historian John Lewis Gaddis.
A glorious day supporting the Under 13 BSME - British Schools in the Middle East games here at St Christopher’s today. #schoolsport #athletics
01.02.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Counterfactual questions to kick lessons off with cognition this week with our IB Diploma Historians. #history #IB #IBO
29.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some awesome CPD in our History Department this week from Monnay Sewell, reviewing our KS3 History Assessment strategy.
Some great takeaways, food for thought and plans for future action! #CPD #history
And don’t a great many military generals across the ages know it … #history
25.01.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The delights of exploring the epistemological & disciplinary underpinnings of History with students never cease! I just love kicking off lessons with such quotes. #history #teaching #learning
24.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to accompany our Year 7 students on their cross-curricular Geography and History trip to Bahrain Fort. Lots of great student-led and directed multimedia documentaries on the way! #bahrain #bahrainfort #XCurricular
21.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So excited that our annual Sixth Form Humanities Symposium is taking place today!
Our wonderful Sixth Form students delivering an eclectic & stimulating range of presentations.
A brilliant day for student-led research, networking, presentation skills and oracy! 🫡 🇧🇭 🎙️
Living in History Teacher wonderland with the jacket on for the Winter! 🧥 🥶 🇧🇭
16.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Flowers in bloom here in the front garden of St Christopher’s! 🌷
14.01.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘It is worth starting with visions … because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.’
Historian John Lewis Gaddis.
The homemade cookies return for 2025 courtesy of my amazing Year 12 IB Diploma Historians! 🍪 😋
09.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very excited for the the ‘Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards’ here at St Christopher’s School, Bahrain this evening!
Looking forward to meeting up with students old and new!
Congratulations to each and all. #bahrain #achievement
What better way to start the new year than booking your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference (virtual) on Feb 1st? 6 spectacular secondary workshops, 3 phat primary workshops and a kicking keynote! Early Bird tickets close at the end of Friday so don't miss out!
06.01.2025 06:36 — 👍 18 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2The Bahraini Farmers’ Market is a great place to visit on a Saturday morning to eat, drink, socialise & support vibrant local businesses! 🌽 🇧🇭 🥕
04.01.2025 11:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to reconnect with so many historians on here! Thought my first post should be connected to what I get asked most. ‘How do you make your PPT’s look like that?’ So here’s my ‘Tips and Tricks’ reference sheet! #historyteacher
Link for resource is below:
docs.google.com/file/d/1ZhCW...
To start the new year I created a HistoryPod Century Rewind – a #History #trivia #quiz of events in years ending ’25. All events have been covered in previous episodes. Good luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQOVChuKJQ
04.01.2025 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1