Ollie Barnes
@obarnes.bsky.social
History and Politics teacher in the East Midlands. Head of Year 12, KS3 history lead, SCITT mentor #historyed #historyteacher
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Shocking statistic that 500 out of 6500 students at Athena chose to be educated at home rather than at school
How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won
Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.
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Hard to recall a reshuffle which hadn’t been leaked to the media in advance. Politics teachers working overtime again tonight
Day 2 of @jamesnaish.bsky.social Summer School with our students, exploring careers in politics and media today with @therestpolitics.bsky.social owners Goalhanger and the Houses of Parliament
Great day yesterday accompanying students on @jamesnaish.bsky.social summer school. Lots of great advice on accessing a wide range of careers. London today to visit @ukparliament.parliament.uk
🚨NEW BLOG🚨 A new blog (aiming to capture the zeitgeist 😂) with some thoughts about THAT interview with Tuchel & Bellingham & what #mentors might learn from it about post-lesson feedback. #ITT #ECT #Mentoring #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/13/t...
Tuchel and Bellingham: What teachers can learn from the World Cup when giving post-lesson feedback
Photo by Allen Boguslavsky on Pexels.com For me, one of the most fascinating moments of England’s World Cup quarter-final victory over Norway happened in the minutes immediately after the mat…
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Politics teaching is fun: PM resignation DURING the mock exam today 😩
Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years for publishing a newspaper. www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/c...
Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial | CNN
Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling...
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Crying at work is probably the most relatable thing this government has done in a full year
School rules from the Qing dynasty c1800. Big fan of ‘love their books and keep them from harm’
Have yet to properly get into the detail but there is some pretty worrying stuff in this report about pupils’ enjoyment of school and how it falls off in Y7. Huge questions to ask here. Wonder if it’s similar in middle school systems?? www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
Hoping AQA have been kind to year 13s taking politics this afternoon. They’ve worked very hard for this
a man is sticking his head out of a blue car while holding a remote control .
ALT: a man is sticking his head out of a blue car while holding a remote control .
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Great piece in @nationaltrust.org.uk magazine. Would be great to get this story into our y8 unit on Georgian Britain
Excited to dig into this properly when exam prep is all over
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Always a pleasure to present with @lauralondo1017.bsky.social and very grateful for the interaction of the people who joined us this morning. It's been great to meet up with colleagues & friends, & hear from #historyteacher s & #historians Goodbye #HAConf25.
What an amazing and inspiring conference #haconf25! Particularly enjoyed @fredoxby.bsky.social session today and will be thinking more carefully about planning to teach sensitive histories.
Tripling my pride (actually bursting) after a quick run down the corridor to catch a few minutes of @obarnes.bsky.social @uonsoe.bsky.social #PGCE #alumni presenting on his SoW which includes the history of Hong Kong in his curriculum's work on Empire. 🤩 #HAConf25 @histassoc.bsky.social
Victoria Crooks@victoriacrooks.bsky.social · last yr.Now doubling my pride as @uonsoe.bsky.social #mentor @swerupa.bsky.social and #ECT 1 @cjherring.bsky.social take to the floor @histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 to share their work on open book assessments.
Has anyone tried to put anything on a usb drive lately? Absolute pain in the neck 😫🤣
The power of beautiful resources I think it’s important to think about beauty when we are evaluating resources we use for teaching. This isn’t about taste, it’s about value. Our pupils deserve the best. /1
Hugely enjoying @empirepoduk.bsky.social at the moment. An amazing story of Great British Twitishness in the latest episode
🚨 BREAKING: Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died aged 88, the Vatican announced on Monday.
Pope Francis dead at 88
He was unafraid to wade into politics, publicly feuding with U.S. President Donald Trump over immigration and rebuking U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
politico.eu
Hitler trial for the Beer Hall putsch ended 101 years ago tomorrow. He was given a 5 year prison sentence. Within a decade he had become chancellor of Germany and removed almost all of his opposition.
Cold War is the new Medicine Through Time for history teachers #madmantheory #brinkmanship
Had a great break this week. Now it’s time to get absolutely steaming
