What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.

Starting the new year as I mean to go on by getting myself SUPER organised has meant that I can share the big folder of every resource I have ever shared on here all in one go. I will pin it to my profile so it never goes missing! Happy New Year to all! drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

NEW ‘Power and Conflict - The Interpretations’ revision booklet. I always get my students to consider 3 interpretations of each poem and ask them to consider which they agree with the most. It’s a great springboard for debate and considering new ideas. I have collated these into

Wheel of stress management

Despite best intentions and significant investment, England’s SEND system is failing too many students and their families. To fix it, we need to understand why. Mega-thread summary of my presentation at #FestivalOfEducation today: ↓

Cilic is playing well but Jack Draper also looks exhausted and isn’t chasing the balls. Something is very wrong here.

*NEW* for June 2026 onwards: a folder of specimen Lang P2s along with PPT slide decks to support teaching, with scaffolds and models like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh3z…

David Lammy and Kier Starmer are war criminals. End of.

I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind

Germany will always be on the wrong side of history. They are one of the staunchest political, military and financial supporters of Israel's bombing of Gazan children and women.

The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state. He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it. Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.

Let’s be clear: The creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank is illegal. It must stop. The wholesale destruction of Gaza is intolerable. It must stop. Unilateral actions that would forever undermine the two-state solution are unacceptable. They must stop.

Tweaked a booklet shared originally I think by the great Lyndsey Dyer Lyndsey Dyer with help from @funkypedagogy recent guidance and support on the AQA 2026 changes, and using a resource from Matt Lynch. I hope very much you don't mind. drive.google.com/file/d/1GSETPP…

Israel murdered Palestinian journalist Anas al Sharif. I remember this video, with Anas exhausted bc of hunger and pain of witnessing almost two years of genocide, and the people telling him to keep going because he was their voice. الله يرحمه و ويجعل مثواه الجنة 💔🇵🇸

*NEW* for AQA: English Lang & Lit mock exam trackers, using June 2025 boundaries and RAG rating for QLA, for each paper like so 👇 Retweet and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/f3mf77e…

AQA English Literature examiner feedback summarised thehappyteacherhub.co.uk/resources-of-t…

AQA English Language examiner feedback summarised for you thehappyteacherhub.co.uk/resources-of-t…

This summer I’ve been working on my Y11 Autumn 1 intervention booklet and SOW. 62 pages later and I’m done🫶🏽💆🏻‍♀️