Moving from Working to Long-Term Memory (from Why Don’t Students like School, Daniel T. Willingham) The initial example is about a history teacher getting students to bake cookies to remember the Underground Railroad – but the author believing all they will remember is how to bake cookies. Or an amazing lesson and all they remember is a small anecdote or a joke you made. This worries me greatly and sort of suggests that lessons need to be sterile in order for students to reme

King John, by Marc Morris I rediscovered these notes while looking for my Anglo-Saxon notes. So this was a little bonus discovery. I made these while planning the King John Scheme of Work and game which can be found at the main site – www.wolseyacademy.com please do take a look and enjoy – they took absolutely ages to make! They also feature cross-curricular French language acquisition, as you can see from the notes! So, my take-away notes… John - he was the youngest son of H

The Anglo-Saxons, by Marc Morris. Again, another superb read recommended by the History Teacher’s Book Club. Ag ain, an era I knew little about – and again an era I am now desperately keen to learn more about and spin-off into schemes of work and new lessons. It also made me storm through the ‘The Last Kingdom’ series on Netflix – I’d read Cornwall’s first book in the series but never took it any further and had never seen the TV series. This is no longer the case. As I was r