I believe that students are more engaged when they are doing things – not just writing, but making things, drawing, or acting something out. If a student thinks history is boring from behind a desk then, well, what’s wrong with going to the park and marking out a battlefield?
Nine months working as an English Language Assistant in a Berlin Primary School
Two years of pupil support in GCSE lower set German, two hours a week.
A year of pupil support in GCSE history, one hour a week.
10 A* at GCSE
A Levels – English Language A*, German A, History B
AS Levels – English Literature A
Whilst based in Berlin last year I clocked up 56 different journeys across Europe and South America – that was eleven different countries, two continents and twenty six different places!