Planning some fun "Christmassy" Macbeth recap lessons. Hoping Y10 enjoy our "Big Fat Quiz" as much as me! Bit of drama, bit of quizzing and a bit of classic Christmas TV! #Macbeth #EnglishTeacher #lastweek

Thinking about your AQA English Language mock P3 tomorrow @Y11WHS WalesEnglish ? This thread has some useful tips and reminders… Wales High School

This Saturday, I really enjoyed presenting my current research, on RFP and choice, at The University of Sheffield New Teacher's Conference. Really valuable experience and some great feedback and discussions around a range of ideas and issues in education currently.

📚 NEW POST! 📚 A step by step guide to a really simple but very powerful English Literature lesson This can be recycled for pretty much any text / year group and requires next to no teacher preparation Thinking/retrieval/writing/discussing codexterous.home.blog/2022/01/16/jus…

Here’s an academic reading lesson I quickly made today using an article on Lady Macbeth and whether she is misunderstood. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Team English dropbox.com/sh/mq9d3qqp826…

For Well-being Wednesday this week we are getting prepared for our book club and starting to read this great book! 👍😀📖📚look out for dates towards Easter where we will catch up and discuss!

📚 POST! 📚 A detailed exploration of how I teach comparative essay structure and why I think this strategy is by far most preferable AND A model essay to see it in action codexterous.home.blog/2020/10/31/tea…

📚 GCSE LANGUAGE RESOURCE 📚 A sheet of Big Questions for Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Great way to co-ordinate thinking and bypass the sometimes confusing questions DL: codexterous.home.blog/resources/

Loved teaching the Battle of the Books! So many students have gone away with books they want to read. Even had a few "I hate books" kids saying they wanted to get one of the books we battled or excited over the stories. I don't think the Rocky music upon entry hurt either!

Fab Y11s yesterday revising significant moments and their links in lesson yesterday. Yes, you can spot a student climbing to a better angle for his proud photo home!

Some examples of AIC thesis statements shared in class today while working on planning essays with golden thread. Well done Charlie and Laura! WalesEnglish

Celebrated completing my masters in educational studies today.

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Simple retrieval grid for each act of An Inspector Calls >> dropbox.com/s/ssedaete62tm…

Happy Christmas from our tutor! This lot are ace.

Classroom ready for Y11 to have a seminar. After a mini lecture with note taking, 30 minutes preparing their seminar notes and further research, we are ready to have a collaborative discussion today.