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Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Head of Faculty | Chartered History Teacher & Historian | Global Edruptor Award | FIoL | FCCT | FRSA | CTHist

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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! ☕️ 🇧🇭 🥐 🫖

30.06.2025 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘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

10.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is where all the HISTORY HAPPENS! 💥 🔥 💪

19.03.2025 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Geography is the backdrop to human history itself.’

Robert D. Kaplan in ‘The Revenge of Geography’

15.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 0
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Historian 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

25.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazing student-baked treats with our Sixth Form Historians. 😋 🇧🇭 👍

20.02.2025 06:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exploring the beauty of Bahrain National Museum! 🇧🇭

18.02.2025 08:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leicester: Architects revive trail of important city buildings The trail marks points from where people can see architecture from medieval to modern times.

Great news for Leicester & those that love her unique & eclectic architecture.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

17.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jolly diplomatic … 🤭

14.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Better than New Walk & Newarke House?

14.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Those gunnies would do some serious damage, too … 😳

09.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All 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.

04.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 0
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Counterfactual 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    📌 0
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Some 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

29.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And don’t a great many military generals across the ages know it … #history

25.01.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 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    📌 0
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Great 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    📌 0
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So 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! 🫡 🇧🇭 🎙️

18.01.2025 10:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Living in History Teacher wonderland with the jacket on for the Winter! 🧥 🥶 🇧🇭

16.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flowers 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.

10.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The homemade cookies return for 2025 courtesy of my amazing Year 12 IB Diploma Historians! 🍪 😋

09.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Very 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

06.01.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 2
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The 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    📌 0
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Great 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...

24.11.2024 09:20 — 👍 30    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

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

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