On Monday 4th March, some of our Year 10 students were fortunate to experience a trip to watch the play 'The Doctors Show' play and workshop delivered by School History Scene, to assist with GCSE History revision.

School History Scene was created out of a belief that students of all levels of ability can be helped to prepare for their examinations and improve their grades with well-produced theatre shows written specifically for their course requirements.

The Doctors Show is a light-hearted play which tells the story of Health and Medicine in Britain since the Middle Ages. Using a TV show format, they bring to life key events and developments in medieval Britain, the Renaissance, the industrial period, and modern Britain. As they do so, they ask students to identify the factors of change involved in these developments, and to assess their impact.

The play is in four parts and each part leads into a workshop session that looks at how the events of the play relate to the GCSE course, and offers advice to students about how to improve their performance in their final exam. The workshop presenters do so by getting students to mark sample examination answers, as if they are assistant examiners in a moderation session.

History Trip Write-up – Monday 4 March - Written by Year 10 student, Hannah:

The Doctors Show was an interactive play, in which historical figures of Medicine were portrayed in their various vents through the centuries. The play was written by Josh Brooman, who has written the previous AQA history textbooks. This helped us with the view on topics around Medicine and the importance of different people. The show would stop at points to allow us to contribute in workshops. They then put us in the position of GCSE examiners to help us think about the detail needed for questions and how marking schemes work. This definitely helped us understand how to get higher marks for our GCSE’s. Overall, the play helped us understand how Medicine has progressed and developed over the centuries. I think the humour of the show made it easier to understand and provided a different approach to learning.