Trainee teachers Suzie Bunyan and Anna Marshall explain why they decided to devise an activity in which they made a big fuss of a just one visual source. As beginning teachers they were also focusing on aspects of their own professional learning. They had decided to extend their skills in questioning. The visual source gave them the idea of developing pupils’ thinking by uncovering hidden layers in their thought processes. They wanted the pupils to question their original preconceptions - to think about their thinking. Above all, they wanted the pupils to see the impact of new historical knowledge upon their original ideas, and so to see how the interpretive process comes about. Suzie and Anna surprised themselves for they managed to inspire a tricky Year 9 class on a Friday afternoon. The class was in a sceptical, unpromising, ‘go-on-impress-me’ sort of mood…