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Adding to Elizabeth
September 7, 2010 - 7:19 pm
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Over the next couple of weeks I am adding to and improving the Elizabethan History section of the website. Content already uploaded includes a range of revision notes, games and videos. The aim is to cover a broad range of issues associated with Elizabethan government and politics including relations with parliament, the issue of succession [...]
What’s the question?
February 27, 2010 - 8:39 am
Tags: answer, essay, questions, wordle
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Imagine how frustrating life would be if no one answered your questions: Which way is the train station? A train station is a building where trains depart from. How much is this coat? A coat is something that you wear to keep you warm and dry. However, every year a surprising number of students fail to [...]
Success(ion) at last
February 17, 2010 - 9:21 am
Tags: elizabeth, mary queen of scots, revision, succession, video
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A new Elizabethan history revision video is online. It looks at the issue of succession and how successfully Elizabeth dealt with it. When Elizabeth became Queen in 1558 she was just 25 years old. However, the issue of succession was important despite her youth. Elizabeth was not recognised as the legitimate heir by many Catholics. [...]
The end of apartheid
January 6, 2010 - 5:51 pm
Tags: apartheid, de klerk, gcse, mandela
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Tonight hundreds of people took part in a torchlit procession through Bristol to mark the release of the worlds most famous prisoner. (BBC television news, February 1990) I have collected together a range of sources looking at the end of apartheid in South Africa. The aim is to help GCSE students (14-16 years old) to [...]
A little history of…
December 21, 2009 - 12:01 pm
Tags: gombrich, reading, world
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I recently read ‘A little history of the world’ by E.H. Gombrich and can heartily recommend it to anyone interested in history. Originally written for his young niece in the 1930s, ‘little history’ provides a great overview of the development of mankind. It is written with passion and sensitivity. It tells a story about civilisation and gives a broader [...]
Elizabethan England
Revision videos and games are now online for the first two key questions. Revision videos for the other key questions will appear through the Spring. In the meantime, notes and activities can be accessed for these questions through the Little Heath School Elizabethan History web page.
Civil War Back Online
I have now re-uploaded the Civil War resources including ‘to kill a king’ and ‘the axe falls’. I have also taken the opportunity to improve some of the activities. In particular, the ‘kill a king’ page now has a powerpoint extension activity to encourage students to become confident in understanding the arguments for and against [...]
Britain 1900-1918
I have gathered together a series of links to BBC resources to help students to revise for the OCR Paper 2 exam in the summer. These include short video clips from the excellent BBC learning zone archive, as well as links to BBC Bitesize notes. They can be found here. The site itself is starting [...]
GCSE Pages back online
December 19, 2009 - 9:33 pm
Tags: gcse, site
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The GCSE revision pages are now back online, as are the Elizabethan history videos. More resources should reappear over the next week.