‘Miss, I wrote a poem at the weekend! Please can I read it to you?’ The best start to a Monday morning today! 🤩

Brilliant!

Last weekend we asked the 9,000 teachers on Teacher Tapp about the kindest thing a pupil or colleague had done in the past half-term. 3,285 of you responded and by response 647 I was in tears. You people are lovely ❤️ Here's a thread of, well, loads of them... 🧵 (Grab tissues)

Ms Rush Team English Mr T's NQT/ECT support 🙋🏻‍♂️ Stuart Pryke GCSE MACBETH This, as a starting point, was very useful. Granular approach, teaching sentence structures is the way with q5, p2.

What a way to begin the competition! An incredibly passionate & professional debate. Both teams were a credit to their school! 👏

An assembly about the diet you feed your mind - something I am very passionate about! I love the analogy of reading being the fruits & exercise our minds need on a daily basis. Our reading diet should also be diverse, so that we can truly learn about the world around us #WBD2023

Such a fun day & this was definitely the highlight 🥹 Amazing to see our older students so enthusiastic & animated as they brought the books to life for our younger students 🤩 #WBD2023

We thoroughly enjoyed being part of this excellent competition! My team were so invested & passionate about every debate - an amazing opportunity for students to showcase their debating skills across schools around the world! Thank you SO much Mrs Ralph’s Classroom for organising 👏🎉

Reminder for y11

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Sam Crome Chris Curtis Niche gone to BlueSky & Threads Team English Thanks for the recommendation, Chris Curtis Weirdly, I haven’t blogged on it specifically, but I talk about it as a method in lots of my blogs which are on other topics… I talk about it at length in the book I’ve written with Marcello Giovanelli - using visuals like this…

I am looking for some new ideas/different activities to help students reflect and improve their descriptive writing. Any recommendations for some fun, interactive, reflective activities - please let me know! Team English

We are reviewing and updating our KS3 curriculum. Please let me know your recommendations/your favourite text or unit of work to teach Y7 in their first term and, most importantly, why. :) TIA. Team English

I am looking for a range of short stories for teens. I am hoping to find short stories which involve action, tension and suspense, plot twists and interesting, relatable characters. Any recommendations, please let me know :) Team English

Nothing better than seeing the students so excited and eager to act out #RomeoandJuliet 🎭 in class. Act 3, Scene 1 is always a hit!

I'm currently compiling a list of famous speeches from various time periods for an anthology exploring war and conflict. I have already found some great ideas on Litdrive UK Any other recommendations, please let me know. TIA! Team English

Has anyone made a SPAG booklet with answers for KS3 that they wouldn't mind sharing? TIA Team English

The best thing about being an English teacher is when you reach a moment in a book and everyone gasps. Happened today and it brings me so much joy.