Rosie Culkin-Smith
@misscs-teach.bsky.social
Head of History | MA Education |Book worm |
Fitness fanatic | Wannabe sommelier ✨
Fitness fanatic | Wannabe sommelier ✨
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?
February 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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?
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”’😂
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”’😂
January 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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”’😂
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”’😂
So I guess it’s back to ‘making lessons more fun’ tomorrow. He’s my ins and outs for 2025:
January 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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
#Soane25 is live!
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
December 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Tickets booked! Absolutely cannot wait for this, what a line up. #Soane25 > Glasto
Be really interesting for anyone planning to tweaking enquiries on empire
Finally, we have just launched our PATHfinders project to connect teachers with the latest sources and research. This time we are collaborating with @britishlibrary.bsky.social to refresh your teaching of Britain and India 1600-1947 curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/11/19/p... /6
PATHfinders: Refresh your teaching on Britain and India 1600-1947 with these fantastic sources from the British Library - SHP Curriculum PATHS Blog
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many PATHfinders updates. We know there is so much creativity in the history teaching world, but it is not always easy to have the time to search for sourc...
curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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 😂😮💨🥹🙃
December 3, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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 🥹😮💨
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Thank god Novembers done 🥹😮💨
Loving this, it’s reading like a page turny novel
November 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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
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
November 17, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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
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
Reposted by Rosie Culkin-Smith
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...
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 …
clioetcetera.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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...
So, are we officially all communicating on Bluesky now? Is X/Twitter in the bin?
November 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM
So, are we officially all communicating on Bluesky now? Is X/Twitter in the bin?
Reposted by Rosie Culkin-Smith
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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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.
1/
November 13, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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.
1/
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.
1/
You don’t have to ask me twice…
Join Hodder Education on Monday 9 December at 4pm (BST) for a FREE webinar with @counsellc.bsky.social and @paulalobo.bsky.social on how to make sources sing. Register here: ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb If you can't make it on the day, register for a place and Hodder will send you a recording of the webinar.
November 13, 2024 at 8:57 PM
You don’t have to ask me twice…
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
How do you approach the (dreaded) source utility Q in the Conflict and Tension paper…
Keen to gather some thoughts/ideas/areas of success
September 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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
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!
I just want to bottle up the expectant energy & initial enthusiasm that a new term brings!
September 12, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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!
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 👀
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 👀
It’s time to sort out - finally - rubbish source questions in GCSE (and to an extent A Level) History exams. Asking generic questions of a couple of sentences of text with almost no contextual detail is not historical and we should have stopped this years ago.
clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...
clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...
Why do GCSE and A-Level exams get it so horribly wrong?
As GCSE and A-Level reforms come into reality over the next year, I am left reflecting on the latest stage in a story that has been developing in England for over two decades: the way in which sources...
clioetcetera.com
September 1, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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 👀
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 👀
Mourning the loss of the long lie ins, but at least i get to hear ‘FIRE HER UP, LETS GO!’ in the morning. IYKYK
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ALT: a close up of a man wearing glasses and a surgical cap with bbc written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Mourning the loss of the long lie ins, but at least i get to hear ‘FIRE HER UP, LETS GO!’ in the morning. IYKYK
Oh hey @edusky.bsky.social it seems that this is where all the cool kids are?
I’m Rosie, @misscs_teach on the other place that shall not be named!
Looking to link with other educators, history fans and get back to sharing all good stuff about education/history teaching ✨🤞🏼
I’m Rosie, @misscs_teach on the other place that shall not be named!
Looking to link with other educators, history fans and get back to sharing all good stuff about education/history teaching ✨🤞🏼
August 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Oh hey @edusky.bsky.social it seems that this is where all the cool kids are?
I’m Rosie, @misscs_teach on the other place that shall not be named!
Looking to link with other educators, history fans and get back to sharing all good stuff about education/history teaching ✨🤞🏼
I’m Rosie, @misscs_teach on the other place that shall not be named!
Looking to link with other educators, history fans and get back to sharing all good stuff about education/history teaching ✨🤞🏼