Enrichment
Enrichment is everything over and beyond usual classroom lessons. There are so many ways we can enrich the historical education of students. For example, we might set up an e-twinning project online with a school overseas and share learning about the end of the Cold War; or we might travel to the Western Front or more locally to learn on-site; or we might set up a joint history and DT project about the purpose and construction of castles. There are many providers of historical education who can help us, and increasingly some superb online resources to bring historical exhibitions, archives and collections into school. There are also many examples of excellent practice among the history teaching community nationwide and beyond. You will find practical examples of effective practice in Teaching History articles, as part of briefing and guidance elsewhere on the site and in Quality Mark case studies. The HA can also put you directly in touch with examples of projects that you may be able to adapt to meet the needs of your students. In this section we break the topic of enrichment into three separate aspects: visits, liaising with others and cross-curricular.
Liaising with others
- Developing effective collaboration between schools and universities
- Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration
- Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’
- Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series
- The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
Cross Curricular
- Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose
- Active remembrance
- Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar
- Climate change: greening the curriculum?
- From the history of maths to the history of greatness
- Remembering Agincourt: Bilingual Enquiry
Visits
- Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
- Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history
- Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
- Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
- From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors
- Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching