A collection of prompts and questions to support the process of live-modelling in the classroom 🔎CPD incoming...⌛️

With the provisional squad named today, preparations for the European Championships have started! A range of player profile posters to get as many students into the library and reading about their favourite players! ⚽️

Assessment lesson to test reading and writing skills in tandem across the spiral curriculum model 🌀✅

Scaffolding our responses using a structure strip as a guide has been beneficial this academic year 🪜

Developing on our mock feedback by evaluating a poetry comparison (R/BC) 🪖 Really pleased with how our analytical structures are developing this term 📈

Effective dual-coding has been useful with Y11 revision, but also for a multitude of starters and 'Connect' tasks throughout the academic year 🧠

Whole-class feedback and subsequent self-reflections are allowing us to get in many more exam questions this term ✅

Feedback from our mocks exploring the character of Birling started well today 👏 A real focus on how we articulate our ideas and initiate our analysis 💬

Starting our creative writing sessions with 15 minutes to annotate a WAGOLL and magpie 5 words, phrases or techniques 💨💨 Getting quicker and quicker in our evaluating and subsequent crafting in the process! 🎯

Our 'How do we ace...' responses are getting much more accurate and are now being reflected in our crafted paragraphs 🙏♠️ Doing one for each question 🧠

Incredibly poignant pre-reading study of 'Poppies' using Private Ivar Rowbery's final letter to his Mother during the war 🪖 Building up contextual understanding, the key skill of analysis, and the speaker's emotion in the brilliant poem 🕊️

Literacy coded marking to address high-frequency errors is a must have ❗For staff, peer-assessing or self-assessing, literacy should be a priority for everyone 🙏

To support sequencing and to develop the academic reading approach, I have separated the Pre/During/Post/Challenge into respective booklets for 'An Inspector Calls' 🕵️‍♂️ Looking forward to getting started! 🙏

Today was all about exploring the HOW and WHY 🤔 Exploring authorial intentions and unlocking deeper meaning 🔓

A reminder to anyone entering our classroom of WHAT we do, HOW we do it, and WHY we do it! 🧠 Our classroom non-negotiables celebrate what we do best 💪

⚽🇺🇸 Always really enjoy teaching a LP2 sequence on Ted Lasso! I Do, We Do, You Do model to build up our analysis of language 🔎

Mock feedback sequence started today to study the theme of change in 'A Christmas Carol' 🎩 Positive first lesson 💪

Developing our General - Specific - Thesis introduction structure before live-modelling a response for students to capture the thought process accordingly 💭 Continuing to stress the importance of a killer introduction! 💪

Beginning our 'King Lear' feedback sequence today with key AO skills covered 💪 Aiming to build up vital analytical and articulation skills throughout KS3 to support next steps at GCSE 🎯

Evaluating our Q5 responses today using our 'Crafting Checklist' ✅ So pleased with the progress this week 🎯 Ofsted looked intrigued in the whole process too 🤷‍♂️😂