Author Archives: Mr Kydd

Enrichment – something to listen to:- Napalm Girl: Spreading forgiveness 50 years on

If you click here you will get a chance to listen to something rather special. It is a 20-minute podcast from Kim Phuc Phan Thi. She became famous as the girl in the Napalm photo of 1972 in the Vietnam … Continue reading

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Enrichment – Debating. The Gresham Competition

If you click here you will get to information about the Gresham competition. Year Twelves only I am afraid. If you want to know more, please come and find me. Mr Kydd. What is The Gresham Competition? Gresham College is … Continue reading

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Enrichment : Something to listen to. BBC Sounds – You’re dead to me…

All, Welcome back. If you click here you will get to the website of the excellent Radio 4 programme – You’re dead to me. This is excellent enrichment for you on topics as diverse as Mary Seacole, the history of … Continue reading

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Obituaries:Roy Hackett and Mikhail Gorbachev

In face as we return to school this post has two obituaries in it for two reformers who passed this summer. Roy Hackett and Mikhail Gorbachev If you click here you will get to get to The Guardian’s obituary for … Continue reading

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The six leadership candidates as wives of Henry VIII…

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Enrichment – something to discuss – Should black Americans get slavery reparations?

Further information – the case for reparations Further information – the case against reparations

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Techniques and timings revision morning

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Private Eye 25/5

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History in the News – Seven centuries of Irish archives painstakingly recreated after being destroyed in civil war…

If you click here you will get to a Guardian article explaining how digital wizardry and academic sleuthing have helped recreate a cultural treasure severely damaged in the conflict in 1922. It is a good example of how technology is … Continue reading

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Timings and skills board work from the Easter sessions

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