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Welcome to the April Edition

In this month's edition we highlight some resources we’ve recently published to support you in the run up to the summer exam series, we also bring you our new teachers' guide for the Historical Environment section of GCSE History A.

The June 2020 provisional timetables are also now available for review, please feedback any concerns to JCQ by 30 April 2019.

As always, please do send us your comments and questions to history@ocr.org.uk.

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Schools History Project Conference
History conference

Booking is now open! Don’t miss this outstanding CPD for secondary history teachers on 5 - 7 July, Leeds Trinity University

There will be a range of sessions, including one with us, providing inspiration and practical strategies to help you take forward history-teaching at Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level in your school. We hope to see you there!

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ExamBuilder

Design your own topic tests, homework activities and end of year mock exams with ExamBuilder, our free question-building platform allows you to filter by question types and/or topics.

You also have the ability to select parts of questions, or full questions so you have a test that is bespoke to your students
History ExamBuilder

GCSE History A and B papers are available now with June 2018 papers due to be added in May.

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Candidate Exemplars
History lesson

To help you prepare students for revision and the upcoming exams, we have uploaded candidate exemplars for most GCSE and A Level History units onto Interchange.

These fantastic resources include actual student responses from the 2018 exams together with examiner commentaries.

Download exemplars
Spitalfields Pack - GCSE History A

We have published a new teacher's guide for Spitalfields. This excellent teachers’ guide helps to prepare students for the 2020 and beyond examination for the Historic Environment section of GCSE History A.

The guide contains a wealth of knowledge and understanding and is a useful resource for all teachers and students interested in local and migration history.
Spitalfields old map
Download Spitalfields pack
Teaching Unit 3 at A Level
Martin Luther King painted memorial wall

To support you and prepare students for the interpretations and thematic elements on unit 3 we've put together a handy guide.

This guide has been put together based on blogs our History team have written.

Download the resource
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