Anyone looking for details of individuals or groups who visit schools to provide ‘hands-on’ activities, role-plays and re-enactment may find this website useful. It lists workshop providers by subject and identifies, topics, regions and website links.

www.schoolworkshops.com

The one such provider I can highly recommend from personal experience is Happening History as I’ve worked with Wel and Karen on resources for GCSE and on an A level workshop on the Wars of the Roses.

And they have the best Home Page photo you’ll find anywhere!

www.happeninghistory.co.uk

Kate Brennan’s site is a doorway into a potentially very effective way of learning – scripted drama.

www.actthefacts.com

Forget the boredom of a class sitting round, not really listening as others stumble listlessly through a tedious script. This is lively, humorous drama with a strong commitment to improving students’ understanding of how History is studied, not just the facts, though they’re there aplenty. There’s also important explanations of why such methods help students learn – not a million miles away from the rationale for much of the material on Thinkinghistory. The drawback is that the cost of the scripts looks high but in a department staffed by like-minded convinced teachers and with students who benefit from getting out of their seats and becoming involved and who therefore learn more and improve their results then the costs may not seem so high.

 

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