Teach Secondary Magazine V.8 No.8 Zurück Ausgabe

Recently, I was talking to my Y9 son about history, which is currently his favourite subject at school (and not solely, I think, because his teacher “once drove a car into his friend’s caravan, for a joke!”). He has an assessment coming up, so he’d asked me to test him on key figures in the evolution of medicine. It was all pretty workmanlike, until we reached the names of Gillies and McIndoe – at which point he went way beyond the bullet points on the flashcard I was holding, launching into an impassioned explanation of surgical ‘waltzing’,