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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wrapped up our India enquiry by answering the enquiry questions ‘What was India’s experience of British rule?’ Tried to avoid the positive/negative debate with students using their own adjectives to describe events they have studied ✍️🇮🇳

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Focus on Holocaust Historiography with Year 9 to finish our SOW, looking at the debate between intentionalist and functionalist historians and the challenges historians face studying the Holocaust ✍️📖

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Ah fab, it’s our first time through this unit so still tweaking it! Purple zone is a school wide policy where it’s a section of the lesson for independent learning and students grappling with challenging tasks.

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Continuing with our historiography focus in Year 8 we compared traditionalist and revisionist historians views on the British Raj. Lots of prep this time discussing the extracts and then questions which built in complexity to scaffold their responses ✍️

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Year 9 students reading an extract from Ian Kershaw 🙌 Still loving the guided reading template to encourage students to read like a historian 📖

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you! I loved your presentation as well and definitely got me thinking about OCR B

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My Year 9 students keep getting a couple of key terms/events mixed up so I created this grid to try and tackle misconceptions head on! I decided to give them one definition of each to help them hut next time will leave some completely blank ✍️

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This time next week you could be enjoying the company of this motley crew! I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday #historyteacher #historyeducation. Just a few days left to get your ticket though so don't miss out on this fantastic CPD for primary and secondary history teachers ...

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who watched my @TTRHistory presentation on teaching degrees of change in History. I loved putting it together and being 10% braver 🙌 A fantastic morning of CPD! PPT-https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VsqdNtvP35vplEROiiJqW2ALWpPkKF7o/mobilepresent?slide=id.p1

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Moving forward we need to recap the meaning of historiography, discuss the interpretations further before the independent work and provide more gateway questions. Also put the more complex interpretation second 😅 Diving into revisionist historiography on British Raj next 🧵/5

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Finally students worked independently to compare two different interpretations on the rebellion from different perspectives. The interpretations were the same but the tasks scaffolded so all students could access the work. There were some very impressive responses 🧵/4

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We then discussed why there’s been so much debate around the rebellion and students came up with some brilliant reasons including ignoring perspectives, selfish reasons and cultural differences 🧵/3

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Then explored what the word historiography meant and applied it to a timeline of historiography around the rebellion and how the name of the event has changed over time 🧵/2

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This week we explored historiography surrounding the Indian rebellion of 1857 as part of our new India depth study and students really rose to the challenge! 🙌 Initially we recapped what happened in the rebellion from the previous lesson🧵/1

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A classics retrieval starter with Year 8! The last lesson section was crucial as it hinged on the lesson so we went through those questions verbally and then students marked their chosen questions from the board 🤔💭🧠

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Amazing I will take a look 🙌 It is a juicy story to show how Elizabethan government worked!

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Still working on trying to make note taking at KS4 a bit more interesting. Today we did Earl of Essex storyboards as we read through his dramatic tale then linked his story to their wider knowledge on patronage, privy council and Elizabeth’s power 🎨✍️

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Attempting to bring a bit more fun into GCSE note taking with comic strips- the latest creation - the colony of Roanoke 😅🎨🖌️

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Amazing, so glad it was helpful!

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

End of unit lesson with Year 10 this week for the first GCSE unit- knowledge audit, exam skills overview, exam question planning, example paragraph writing and students writing paragraphs independently 🙌

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Introduced a new exam question style to Year 10 through good, better, best paragraphs. Students had to identify the key features of the paragraph and then explain which one was the best and why, before writing the next paragraph for the question independently/ withscaffolds ✍️

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Last week Year 7 learnt about the Celts and used artefacts to consider what they might reveal about Celtic lifestyles 🪙 #historyteacher #historicalartefacts #artefactsinhistory

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Introducing exam questions via I do, we do, you do in the first GCSE Lesson with Year 10 🙌 Hugely inspired by @petejackson.bsky.social blog that he shared

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Time for a re-introduction: I’m Rachel, a 0.6 History Teacher based in Leeds, Chartered Teacher and former Head of History. I’ve recently joined my school’s teaching and learning team and I’m passionate about educational research and sharing adaptable resources 👋 I will not look this glam tomorrow 😅

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

A great read for anyone teaching History OCR B GCSE 🙌

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

This is a really great read! I love the end of enquiry knowledge recall task. Thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙌

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Catching up on @innerdrive.bsky.social Spotlight ahead of the new academic year 🙌 It will be tricky to pick a study for our teaching and learning reading group!

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Rachel Cliffe @rcliffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Site Study visit with a toddling one year old- more or less stressful than taking 60 Year 10s? 😂 📍Temple Newsam House, Leeds

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