
Why don't students like school? Chapter 3 - CPD Session
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
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

Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
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