Having met with the Learning Outside the Classroom team at the DCSF yesterday, I'm pleased to sign up the GBHT to their manifesto which promotes the benefits of learning outside the classroom and will help to make sure that teachers have the resources and training to understand the benefits of taking young people out of school. I am very hopeful that Gareth's Trust will directly help to fulfill the aims of the manifesto and that in time we will also be able to provide best practice and advice to history teachers who want to take their students out of school.
It is just a week to go now until the launch of the Trust and I am delighted that we have three year 11 students from Bramhall High School in Stockport coming to tell guests about their experiences going on the Battlefields tour this year. I'm very happy with the turnout for the launch - we've been inundated with people wanting to attend and now have had to start a reserve list! I wouldn't have been able to achieve it without my brilliant intern Steph who has been working very hard to pull everything together. Lots of great candidates applied, so sorry to those of you who didn't get the position, but I hope you will still support the aims of the Trust!
So now it's just the last minute things to finalise. I've ordered a banner stand and am in the process of designing leaflets thanks to a wonderful pro bono offer from John Schwartz at Soapbox Communications Soon I'm going to have to think about writing my speech... If anyone has any good quotations illustrating the importance of understanding history please send them my way....
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