SJB History

ETA Woking Leisure Centre at 9.45pm.

Had a great first day in Belgium with our Year 9 students! Please check out our Instagram page to see some pictures - @SJBHistory

KS3 History BOOKFLIX! Check it out for historical fiction and non fiction reads… s-j-b.padlet.org/SJBHistory/vpv…

Armistice Day: 11am on Tuesday 11th November 1919, vast crowds in London observe the very first 2 minute silence for those killed in the Great War. The men have removed their hats out of respect for the fallen. (I originally colourised this photo for the Evening Standard in 2019)

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Year 11 trip to York! We studied the Norman impact on the city, visiting York Minster, St Mary’s Abbey, Clifford Tower and walking the city walls. A great day was had by all! @ York instagram.com/p/Ck05JHjN93K/…

Lest we forget the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life. At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them.

Our A Level Historians have really excelled themselves this year, despite the most challenging of circumstances. 94% A*~B… Wow, we are proud teachers! Well done for all your hard work! ⭐️

Wishing all our GCSE Historians the best of luck in your first exam tomorrow morning! Have faith, believe you can! 🙌

TWIH - 1945 - The Yalta conference opened. This was when Britain, Russia, and the USA met to discuss the final plans for the defeat of Nazi Germany

TWIH - 1945 - The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland was liberated

TWIH - 1899 - Al Capone was born. He would go on to be a major figure in organised crime in America in the 1920s known as ‘Scarface’

TWIH - 1540 - King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves

A big well done to our A-level History students Charlotte and Hannah for running a very engaging History club lesson on the Suffragettes. The students learnt so much and had a great time as well! @sjbsurrey

TWIH - 1941 - The Japanese launched an attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbour causing America to join the Second World War

TWIH - 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott

TWIH - 1911 - a group of suffragettes stormed Parliament to try and convince them to give women the vote. All of them were arrested

TWIH - 1558 - Elizabeth Tudor became Queen Elizabeth I of England