@mrsball.bsky.social is on her way to Australia right now and I can’t wait for her to share her magic! 🤩

A career highlight! I’ve written an article in Teaching History @histassoc.bsky.social on disability in history and also an update focusing on including and accessibility for all in history. To support the latter, there is a new CPD series in autumn: www.history.org.uk/secondary/mo...

@lambhearttea.bsky.social focusing on ways to engage students and scaffold their access to the curriculum, using captivating stories #SHP26

Graduated to become Dr Fairlamb! A brilliant day spent with family 🫶 My wonderful Mum would have loved it and she was very much in our thoughts yesterday

Great time speaking at the PiXL Post-16 conference where I discussed strategies to create independent learners. What a venue too! 🏏

Gearing up for a today day at the Summit Learning Trust day. I’ll be presenting on scaffolding, questioning in history and developing a diverse primary history curriculum. Can’t wait to see @davidolusoga.bsky.social speak!

Brilliant day at Festival of Education 26! Always a brilliant day and it’s been lovely to catch up such great educators

Beyond excited to be speaking at Festival of Education this Thursday on scaffolding literacy and Oracy. The @innerdrive.bsky.social strand is 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Congratulations to all the regional winners of the inaugural Historic Royal Palaces Inspirational Teacher Awards. It was an honour to be an NE judge (pictured with some other judges) and it’s both inspiring and humbling to read all about the powerful teaching our students are benefiting from

Two brilliant days keynoting at the PiXL Primary and Secondary conferences about diversity in the curriculum. Lots of excellent talks on important areas. And I got to meet Geoffy B again!

Full details of the workshops, keynotes, fringe and bildung sessions as well as our live poetry from Natalie Davies are available on our website here: www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/summerconf/

SHP Summer Conference, July 10-12 2026 Leeds Trinity University - Schools History Project

This summer we will be hosting a 3-day conference with 46 workshops for primary and secondary history teachers as well as 2 superb keynotes, a roundtable discussion on History and Interdisciplinarity,...

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Festival of Education Barcelona ☀️ A brilliant day crammed full of excellent talks, in particular Francesca Martinez who shared her experiences of school. Great to catch up with awesome educators by the beach!

Wishing all the luck and wishes to @hugheshaili.bsky.social as she emigrated to transform education in Australia! Your friendship is very much valued

Marking 15 years of dragging this fella around museums by taking him to a museum. This time it’s the Museum of Communism. He’s thrilled.

WHAT. A. STRAND! Get your ticket for Festival of Education and head along to the @innerdrive.bsky.social strand for the equivalent of the Pyramid Stage. All killer, no filler! 🤘

Five conferences in five weekends 💪 Festival of Education Shanghai researchEd Warrington researchEd New York researchEd Crieff Historical Association Newcastle Very lucky to have been able to go to these events and also catch up with/meet wonderful people!

Historical Association conference 2026 in Newcastle-Gateshead 📜 Belta talks by lots of great history educators And Daphne even made an appearance 💅🏼

It’s election time for the Historical Association Governing Body. I’m standing for a position as a trustee - and Daphne is my official mascot! If you are a member, please do check your emails to find out about the wonderful candidates standing and cast your vote!

“In fact, if we were to map Year 1 to Year 13 in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills, would we see continuous threads (age and stage expectation appropriate)? Or would we in fact see multiple different curriculums which shunt into one another like a poorly welded car.”

Closing the Curriculum Chasm

Bridging the Transition Gap: A Blueprint for Curriculum Continuity

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Beijing Day 2: The Great Wall (and a toboggan down!)

Beijing Day 1: sunrise and sunset overlooking the Forbidden City, a run through Bahai Park at dawn, and a day spent wandering Hutong, the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square

My brand new subject leader CPD is now open to book! If you're on Facebook, join the Mr T does Primary History group for a discount (or message me if not). Bookings taken via invoice and/or through here: t.co/Za6poLu8Dy

Fail Better by Mark Roberts is brilliant! This is an absolute must read, particularly if you have students who struggle with perfectionism or from self-sabotage @innerdrive.bsky.social

PhD ✅ Officially a Dr! Can’t believe it!

Officially a Fellow of the @collegeofteaching.bsky.social 🤩

My fourth blog in a series exploring professional learning and literacy and oracy. open.substack.com/pub/alexfair...

A brilliant day at ResearchEd Haninge! Congrats to the team for putting together such a great day of talks and connecting 👏 Stockholm is a stunning city 🤩😍

Time is running out to get your free tickets to this webinar organised by the HA North East Teacher Branch. I will be sharing my experiences and ideas about teaching Irish history in English schools. Open to everyone! Why is there a Northern Ireland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-is-the...

Join the IOE History Ed SIG 4 this open seminar with Professor Marc-André Éthier, exploring Bringing History 2 Life: Teaching Fact & Fiction, Face-2-face & online - on the 19th March 5-6.30pm GMT. Further information & registration are @ this link: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/hie-sig/?p=1... #historyeducation

Incredibly proud to have created this unit using Helen Castor’s ‘She-Wolves’ book for @marymyatt.bsky.social Myatt&Co Students will explore the lives and actions of 4 Medieval queens and answer how these interesting women defied and challenged the conventions of the time.