`Dracula is a novel obsessed with text.`
Read what Theadora Jean has to say about Dracula! Fantastic piece!
The Dracula Society

This is the fallow week for The Fortnightly. Back next Saturday with lots more interesting reading and writing, including Jonathan Haidt and Thi Bui, and plenty of teaching and learning too.

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Could not agree more. Imagine taking an image in isolation, out of context, with no understanding whatsoever of how it works in practice, and attacking a school serving an area of high depravation in the north.

Have a word with yourselves 🙄 You are damaging the sector.

Now Disney+ have done X-Men, I dare you to do Battle of the Planets.

I’ll have availability for new tutees after 6th June -the last English exam -as all of current tutees are Yr 11.I’ll be very sad when those final lessons occur as they’ve all been LOVELY.
Let me know if you think I could be of help to your youngsters. Online tuition available.

This week’s exam season share is for GCSE English Language, Paper 2. Pre-annotated texts on the themes of trains and fire to download at the bottom of the blog post. anthonycockerill.com/2019/05/08/gcs…

How concepts help pupils to learn the curriculum

It turns out that if we identify the concepts aka big ideas and teach pupils these, then they are likely to know more, remember more and be able to do more, over time...

#peripeteia Team English Chris Curtis Mr C English MissR Mrs Norfolk A-Level English Tutor in South West London Ms Duckworth's Classroom Rosie 📚 she/her ♀️ Esme Myers Miss Burt Susan Strachan MissHP Redmaids' High English Miss Harris DMF Stephanie Keenan WGS English

Want to boost A-level results? Try these

Caroline Spalding Chris Curtis Hi Caroline – did you catch our Carousel for English launch webinar? If not, you can watch Chris talking about how he uses Carousel here:
youtu.be/r30TljY6TCE

This is so true. Attempting to ‘fix behaviour’ is like applying a tiny sticking plaster on a huge gaping wound. Any incoming government must address the criminal lack of funding and provision for complex needs and SEMH.

One for Tudor Grange Research School on how we've re-developed parts of our KS3 curriculum to help students write better. Team English - covers: 
- scheme design and delivery
- selecting sources of inspiration
- imitation to innovation
- live-modelling researchschool.org.uk/tudor-grange/n…

Come and join our incredible team! I couldn’t recommend our department more - supportive, collaborative and friendly (and also hilarious…). We can’t wait to meet you!

Very under qualified to be on the front of a book with the brilliant Dr. Haili Hughes 🤩 but… I am very excited to be writing this alongside her. Loving this cover too! Team English Michael Chiles 🌍

🧵🚨🚨🚨We are recruiting! Second in English
tes.com/jobs/vacancy/s… Head of English
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✅Wonderful English faculty
✅Supportive & visible SLT
✅Disruption free learning
✅Reading dog
✅Wellbeing focused
✅Pay above national scales
✅3 extra planning days

Collaborate and listen …

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Don’t miss this from Coastlands Primary Jennifer Webb Chris Curtis Brian Moses Sue Hardy-Dawson💙 Sam Gibbs Zoe Enser 🐉 Chris Dyson FCCT Mulgrave Primary Claire Stoneman Emma Cate Stokes Emma Turner FCCT Tom Sherrington Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 British Library Learning 👇
Seven Ages 👋 resource by Leah Crawford

#OTHELLO Team English MissR Chris Curtis
Numpty Teacher Literature Fanatic Dr Amy Smith Laura Webb Miss S Fry Jane Rayson Florence Marie
A Miles Mrs K Rice David Williams Word Nerd
Miss Gray Kate S. Martin

To celebrate HIS birthday, a free copy to one lucky retweeter

We've got some full class sets of books we are looking to sell on for various reasons (different cohorts, different needs etc). They have all made amazing class novels in our school. We are looking for around £100 a set. There's 30ish in each (no less). Titles in next tweet.