Blowing your own trumpet

Giving your school’s history department a high profile

The Plot

Declining numbers and …

Front of House

Who to?• Grade 9 Pupils• Their Parents• School Management

The History Evening

The Main Stage• The classroom environment

Backstage

Selling History to the Grade 9s using presentations and videosWhat research tells us:

• Career relevance is key, but learners are not particularly attracted by jobs like working in a museum so be careful.

• History role models are a good idea. People who have been very successful in a variety of fields who studied history to an advanced level.

Other issues to highlight

• The importance of history skills across a wide range of applications and especially for any type of study at a university should be stressed.

• The role of History in forming an informed citizen with a strong sense of context.

What can the society do?

• Need to keep agitating for improvements to the matric History papers.

• Become a conduit for History best practice

• The Big challenge- A new promotional DVD.