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Victory Day in Astana

Posted on 11 May 2012, under The Kazakhstan Diaries

Haileybury Astana was proud to play a role in Victory Day, a very important part of Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet culture and held as a national holiday.  The School was host to two veterans of World War Two, both Heroes of the Soviet Union and friends for over 60 years, who had seen action in the Defence of [...]

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A trip to the Deep South

Posted on 26 April 2012, under Education Today
Haileybury's History Middles on tour in the USA.

I have recently returned from taking a group of 25 Middles History pupils to the Southern States of America; to Georgia and Alabama, to be precise. The purpose of the trip was to gain a deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, which we study at IGCSE, as well as to expose the pupils (and [...]

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By Matt Radley with no comments

Psychology – that sounds really interesting, but what is it?

Posted on 28 February 2012, under Education Today

Psychologists have been asked this question ever since Wilhelm Wundt opened his first experimental psychology lab in 1879 Leipzig. Here’s my attempt to answer it… In short, modern psychology is the study of human behaviour and how the mind works, and it believes that this must be examined using the same hypothesis testing techniques as [...]

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By Jonathan Lloyd with no comments

The nature of History in 2021

Posted on 24 February 2012, under Looking To The Future

I spent the first weekend of half term at the brand new IB offices in The Hague helping to put together ideas for a new IB history syllabus that will not be taught until 2015 (and that would last until 2022 and cannot be changed on the whim of any government!) A group of seven history [...]

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By Ed Bond with no comments

Visiting the Battlefields

Posted on 17 February 2012, under Education Today
The village of Paschendale before and after the fighting.

It is now around four weeks until we take the Removes from Haileybury out to the Battlefields of Northern France and Belgium. It is such a common school trip as to almost be a cliché, but does this mean that it is not worthwhile? There is certainly a danger that, without careful planning, such a trip can become [...]

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By Matt Radley with no comments