Author: Matt Radley

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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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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Lower School in the Trenches

Posted on 1 February 2012, under Broadening Horizons

Yesterday afternoon we were lucky to welcome Military Historian and TV History expert Andy Robertshaw to Haileybury to give two talks; the first to the Removes on soldiers’ experiences of the First World War, and the second to the Fifths on how warfare changed over the course of the 20th century (something they will be [...]

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History and Twitter

Posted on 23 January 2012, under Broadening Horizons

I am a relative newcomer to the increasingly all-consuming world of Twitter, having been alerted to its potential by none other than @BattenHse (otherwise known as Batten HM, Mr Angus Head). Like many, I had up to that point avoided signing up as I assumed it was mostly filled with people saying things like “having [...]

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