Triumphs Show

Celebrating and sharing teaching successes

Triumphs Show is a regular Teaching History feature which offers a quick way for teachers to celebrate their successes and share inspirational ideas with one another. While the ideas are always explained in sufficient depth for others to be able to take them forward in their own practice, the simple format allows teachers to present individual activities or one-off events that have had a particular impact on their students.

Triumphs Show title/topic

Author

TH issue 

Year

Lived experiences and past worlds: Year 8 imagine the First World War trenches

Erin Grady

193

2024

How typical? Year 9 balance micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

Ed Durbin, Maia Stevenson

192

2023

‘The Strands of Memory’: how a school initiative in Normandy, France, involves pupils in questions of history and remembrance

Lucien Grillet

189

2022

The BeBold Network

Sam Jones

188

2022

Black Germany during the ‘golden twenties’: diversifying the curriculum at A-level

Maya Stiasny

184

2021

A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of academic history 

Anna Lovelock

182

2021

Making their historical writing explode

Lesley Ann McDermott

181

2020

From ‘most able’ to ‘mini’ historians

Laura Tilley

180

2020

Using material culture to generate a historical enquiry

Kathryn Elsdon, Hannah Howard

176

2019

Teaching Black Tudors

Chris Lewis

173

2018

The history classroom lending library

Tim Jenner, Jessica Angell

172

2018

Preparatory reading for A-level essays

Matthew Springett

171

2018

Making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

Catherine Priggs, Eliza West

170

2018

Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study

Carmel Bones

169

2017

Keeping the 1960s complicated

Rachel Coleman

167

2017

Interpretations at A Level

Julia Huber, Katherine Turner

164

2016

Prezi and propaganda

Laura Tilley

160

2015

Teaching paragraph construction

Kirstie Murray

159

2015

Interactive learning walls and substantive vocabulary

Sophie Murray

158

2015

What makes art history? Year 7 use V&A gallery resources to create their own answer

Sarah Copsey

157

2014

Fresh perspectives on the First World War

Maria Osowiecki, Robin Francis

156

2014

Beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'

Thomas Hinks

155

2014

Year 13 game for reaching substantiated judgements

Paula Worth

150

2013

Meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

Carmel Bones, Liz West

150

2013

Using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

Tim Jenner, Paul Nightingale

148

2012

Collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano

Dan Lyndon

148

2012

Putting an enquiry together

Geraint Brown, Michael Fordham, Matthew Stanford

146

2012

Active learning to engage and challenge 'challenging students'

Lucy Whittington

144

2011

Using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

Morgan Baynham

141

2011

Leading a school re-enactment group

Jonathan Davies

140

2010

Whodunnit? The Felling Mining Disaster of 1812

Matthew Greenhalgh

139

2010

A kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover Castle

Gail Swainston

138

2010

Assessing through reflection

Jennifer Davison

137

2010

How one history department changed pupils' and parents' perceptions of homework

Christine Bridge

136

2009

How trainee teachers learned to put history back into GCSE

Claire E. Smith

135

2009

Getting more pupils choosing History at GCSE

Simon Milward-Hopkins

133

2008

Using Mr Men to help Year 13 understand conflicting interpretations

Matt Harwood

133

2008

Righting the Revolution: Eisenstein meets Figes in the Year 9 classroom

Richard McFahn

130

2008

Holding a live debate around an historical theme

James Watson, Dave Smalley

129

2007

Using Role-play activities to engage and challenge young learners

Chris Higgins

128

2007

Using the Anne Frank House's 'A Family Secret'

127

2007

'Source Specs' - making sources fun

Rachael Povey

123

2006

60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

Katie Hall

121

2005

Is music the answer to the Irish Question in schools?

Ian Ollerenshaw

120

2005

Using role play to explain military history

Julian Critchley

120

2005

Bringing the big picture to life using a 3D rollercoaster

Kate Dacey

119

2004

Helping Year 9 think & feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

Dave Woodcraft

117

2004

Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

Emma Norcliffe

116

2004

How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

Matthew Bradshaw, Katie Hawks

113

2003

William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

Darius Jackson

112

2003

Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

Sally Evans

111

2003

Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain? A values exercise related to trench warfare

Lesley Parkinson

110

2003

Strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

Jenny Parsons

109

2002

Getting the whole school buzzing about history

Helen Snelson, Kathy Mawson, Sue Justice

108

2002

Opening a new HA branch

Heather Scott

107

2002

Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

Caroline Godsell

105

2001

Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

Phil Smith

103

2001

Communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

Stephen Lawlor

102

2001

Enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

Heather Scott

101

2000



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