It's that time of year where the edutwitter argument of whether you should do work in the Summer holidays or not arrives. Personally, if you are doing the display/planning because you want to, then go for it. I actually find it makes me feel more prepared and less stressed overall in September, and a resource or something that there is never time to prepare when teaching is made and helps throughout the year. Since becoming Head of Department this year, I knew we needed to look at our assessment for Years 7, 8 and 9. There was not a particularly robust way we were assessing our students, or one that followed some kind of consistency between assessments, year groups and teachers. We have seen the benefits of knowledge recall tests with our KS4/5 students, and wanted to roll this out to KS3. Also, based on discussions on Twitter, much talk is about how we engage students with the work of historians. Therefore, each assessment has a quote from a historian to consider their interpre
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