History/Modern Studies teacher in Dumfries and Galloway. 🏰. Running the Law Mock Trial Club ⚖️ University of Stirling Graduate 👩🏼🎓views are my own
Dumfries, Scotland
Joined October 2019
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Great to join modern studies teacher Lizzie Smithard and pupils at #Dumfries High School today to make a donation to help launch their annual Christmas Food Bank appeal.
Really great initiative for the local community.
Well done 👏🏼 3rd place today at the mock trial competition in Glasgow’s High Court! 👩🏼⚖️ 👨🏻⚖️ super work to all of the team what a result after a year off competing! 🌟
Yesterday I visited Auschwitz with two amazing pupils, Sarah-Jane and Mirrin, as part of @HolocaustUK Lessons from Auschwitz project.
We were joined by Cabinet Secretary for Education @JennyGilruth who was once a Social Subjects teacher too.
My S6 pupils meeting Eva Clarke BEM, Holocaust survivor, today in Edinburgh before our visit to Poland on Tuesday. What an inspirational woman and story #lessonsfromauschwitz @HolocaustUK
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Higher historians created some infographics about the social surveys of Booth and Rowntree this week! 🎨 @jrf_uk
Last day at uni today with this fantastic bunch of marigolds 🌼 what a roller coaster it’s been, one more essay to go!! #stiruni #universityofstirling
@WildSkoots it’s a game of Tetris. Roll the dice and answer a question correctly to place a block!
National 5 modern studies 📢📣powers of the first minister - reshuffle the cabinet/appoint cabinet ministers. New Health secretary after a resignation
First Minister @HumzaYousaf has announced the new Scottish Cabinet.
The reshaped Cabinet of ten will include seven women, believed to be the highest proportion of any government in the world.
Read more: bit.ly/minappts
ALT First Minister and Cabinet following reshuffle
N5 History have moved onto Civil Rights and had to guess what their lesson was on today… they worked on their communication skills where one person was the ‘artist’ with their backs to the board 👩🎨 and the other the describer! Some great attempts! 👏🏼🎨 @DHS_Social
What a fantastic day for Dumfries High School! Received our official Vision Schools Level One accreditation. ⭐️ presented by @JennyGilruth Education secretary and 2nd gen survivor and author Maria Chamberlain. @VisionSchools @HolocaustUK @DGCEducation @EducationScot @gtcs
Wasn’t the night for our Piper Gregor or myself last night in our categories but our two Solway skating stars won sports team of the year last night 🏆🥇. Incredibly proud to have been at these awards with some of my pupils 🌟
How privileged we were to have Gillian and Hilary (Daughters of Henry and Ingrid Wuga - Holocaust survivors) come and visit Dumfries High School for the afternoon on Thursday with @VisionSchools celebrating our level one award for holocaust education @GBrydsonD_G @DGCEducation
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In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements.
Ahead of tomorrow's #WorldHumanitarianDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. #NoMatterWhat
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Today, July of 1946: A Pogrom took place in Kielce, Poland. The date is correct –1946.
One year after the end of the World War II and the Holocaust and a Polish mob attacked a house in Kielce in Poland where almost all of the town's surviving Jews were living (200 of the
Saw this man @steve55067 on the news today! What a brilliant service he is providing. Imagine if we could get school pupils volunteering to do this as part of teaching heritage in History?!
Please donate a small amount to his just giving page! 😃
#heritagehero #CWGC @CWGC
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Miss Lee's National 5 History class have been producing their own WWI propaganda posters touching on the reasons why men volunteered for war in 1914! 🫡🤗#socialsubjects #WWIPropaganda
