Childhood isn’t just a stage of life – it’s shaped by society.
Medieval child = mini adult
Victorian child = worker
Modern child = student
Has childhood improved… or just changed?
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Know someone who'll be revising for their #Philosophy #ALevel over the Easter holidays? 🐣📚
💡 Philosophy Briefings are 15-min videos following the A-Level curriculum, led by eminent philosophers.
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Hope or uncertainty?
Question from #History #Alevel students #Esher6thFormCollege
@peterhain.bsky.social reflects on release of #NelsonMandela from prison — it forced a public recognition that white apartheid rule was ending
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New Learning Techniques That Actually Work
Most students don’t need to work harder… they need to work smarter.
Here are 7 techniques that make a real difference
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Maths isn’t about just understanding… It’s about practising and applying.
✔ Do lots of questions
✔ Learn from mistakes
✔ Try unfamiliar problems
That’s how you improve
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Most students go to lessons. Fewer actually learn in them.
Here’s how to change that
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Most students don’t lose marks because they don’t know the content… They lose marks because of poor exam technique.
Here are 5 things that REALLY make a difference
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#historyteacher #EarlyTudors #ALevel How nerdy do we want to get? ‘Very’ is the correct answer.
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Creating images can be one of the best ways to learn. A labelled diagram, flow chart or mind map often works far better than a page of dense notes.
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Your brain loves patterns.
That’s why mnemonics are so powerful for learning.
Strange sentences → stronger memory.
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Traffic Light Your Knowledge
Before revising, colour-code the syllabus:
🟢 Green – confident
🟠 Amber – partly understood
🔴 Red – need to learn
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Finding it oddly reassuring (because Y13 are making me wonder if I actually taught them at all last year) that everything it talks about is what I teach, almost to the letter (the talk is currently on Leviticus vs Deuteronomy) #historyteacher #ALevel #EarlyTudors
Delighted to welcome students and staff from Lowestoft Sixth Form College for a visit to our Philosophy Department!
👍 uni life
👍 metaethics
👍 Chinese philosophy
👍 philosophy of mental health
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Learning and juggling sounds ridiculous… but it works.
Try this study cycle:
20 mins learning 5 mins juggling
It resets the brain
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Students often revise by rewriting notes. Unfortunately, that’s mostly passive learning. A better approach? Mind maps.
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2026 Catalogues.
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ost students think success comes from studying longer.
In reality it comes from studying smarter.
Good time management can transform exam results.
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Most students revise content.
Far fewer practise exam technique.
Yet exam technique can easily move a grade from B → A.
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Students often say:"I'm revising for my exams." But here’s the problem. Revision assumes the knowledge is already there. Most students actually need to learn, not revise.
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Revision tip that actually works: revision isn’t reading — it’s retrieving.If you can’t get it out of your brain under pressure, you don’t “know” it yet.
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Really interesting for #places #alevel #geography could be an NEA for a British equivalent?
Flashcards don’t fail students.Random flashcards fail students.✅ Enter: the Leitner System (spaced repetition without the faff).
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2026 Catalogues.
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Measuring the speed of sound in water: the time delays are tiny because sound travels ~1500 m/s. Best method: two hydrophones, known separation d, measure time delay
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