Harriet Ward 🏰⚔️💀

Head of History based in Brighton. Trained at Sussex.

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Me @ Year 10. #distancelearning

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Does anyone have any insight into if/how the upcoming curriculum review will affect GCSE history? As in, should I invest in new sets of textbooks or will they be obsolete soon?

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Starting 2025 with a suspected case of
mumps.

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@missgeog92 😭

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@MBDscience I told my KS3 classes that some of them will never study history after Year 8, so if I don’t teach them history now I’m wasting some of their valuable time learning history.

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@DennyTWright @Little_Less_Ego @Miss_Snuffy Loads of different factors are at play, parental buy in being one in some cases (and I don’t say that to blame parents, as you’ve said there are loads of different reasons why they may not buy in or may be less able to buy in).

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@Little_Less_Ego @DennyTWright @Miss_Snuffy It’s calculated based on averages so some schools have to be below. The vast majority of those schools will be in deprived catchments with less parental buy in etc etc.

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@La_Biologuita Also in East Sussex and haven’t heard this

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@DavidNautilus1 @profprofMFL At a previous school a child ran around setting off the fire alarm repeatedly. We all had to evacuate several times. Eventually stayed out. Police were called. A teacher was assaulted & it was in the papers. I’d say that one student affected the running of the school.

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@missgeog92 this feels like a question for you (not because you’re boring, because your classroom is beautifully organised!)

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Very boring question… what do you use to organise resources on student desks so you don’t constantly have to hand out glues etc?

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Considering buying a new laptop as mine is long past its best. Recommendations for a cheap, quick, lightweight laptop with good battery life please! (And affordable) Needs to be able to record basic videos for exam technique etc.

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…we already teach the Holocaust. It’s statutory on the national curriculum for history. I’m so confused by this announcement.

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@greg_ashman Lower your voice like Margaret Thatcher.

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@RevRichardColes I had two BA flights cancelled within three months, and my mum had one cancelled this week. I won’t use them ever again.

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@jackm1934782 @gmpolice here’s one for you

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@jackm1934782 @LilaTamea Here’s another one inciting racial hatred @sussex_police lock them up

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@missgeog92 How much are you charging? 😂😂 I’ve always been so jealous of your display skills!

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@xXMrsTeacherXx @bphillipsonMP Yep and I’ve got one of each 🙄

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Hello @bphillipsonMP. Thank you so much for everything you’ve already done for teachers. As a retention strategy, have you considered cancelling student debt for teachers after a certain number of years of service? Monthly repayments are huge when you have 2 degrees to pay off.

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@xtinexoop @MartinSLewis lol I wish it was £66k. It’s not even close to that. I think it’s because I have a plan 1 loan and a plan 2 loan?

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@MarshallTitan1 @bphillipsonMP You’re still employed as a teacher when you’re on maternity leave or off sick so not sure why that would matter.