Departmental Schools Link Officer: if you are interested in any of the following activities, please contact Dr Nadine Rossol, or complete our Schools Link Form and email or post it to the Department.
We would very much like to develop closer links with local schools and history teachers and really hope that you will want to become involved in one or more of the activities. Possible suggestions include:
Visit by teacher and pupils from your school to the University of Essex, Colchester Campus to:
Visit by a member of the Department of History to your school
Every autumn the Department hosts the Dudley White Local History Lecture. In 2012 this was given by Dr Neil Younger from this Department, and focused on the Elizabethan Reformation in Essex. You are most welcome to attend future lectures where you will have the chance to meet the speakers and other members of the Department.
The Universities of Essex and Canterbury Christ Church, Kent are currently involved in a joint project, funded by the Higher Education Academy, which seeks to make the transition from secondary education to university study as smooth as possible. This is to enable History students to reach their full potential in their University education and ensure they are well-equipped for the world of work. The project is currently in an initial, ‘fact-finding’ phase, involving visits to local Essex schools and colleges where A-level History is taught, to survey the approaches to teaching History. Building on this first phase, we plan to develop a network of partners in Kent and Essex (including universities, schools, colleges, employers and local authorities) amongst whom good practice and information about history teaching and history skills can be shared. The Project Co-ordinator, Matthew Cook, is visiting schools to find out more about what you teach and how you teach it by talking to A-level history teachers and pupils. If you are interested in being involved in this project, please contact Dr Nadine Rossol, or complete our Schools Link Form.
Our expert on witchcraft in early modern Europe, Dr Alison Rowlands has developed documents and lesson plans in this area (more information to follow shortly).
Our award winning Time Travellers team, all members of the Department’s History Society, continue their voluntary work in local primary schools. They teach children about history, inspiring them with a range of diverse themes (from espionage over pirates to the Wild West) and creative ways of learning.
For Key Stage 2/3 students who want to become involved in the Dora Love Prize, a one-day workshop will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus on Tuesday, 26 September 2013.
For A-Level students, the workshop will take place in Ipswich (more information to follow shortly).
'Twentieth-Century Dictatorships: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia and Mao's China'.
A one-day conference aimed at sixth-form students will be held next summer (2014) (more information to follow shortly).
The History Department has a limited number of places for year 10 work experience placements. If you are interested in a work placement, please contact us.