How can teachers use stories to encourage curiosity, empathy and engagement in the classroom? A thought-provoking discussion with AQA's Anna Trethewey, writer Joseph Coelho, and children's author Manjeet Mann. #EducationFest

How does Artificial Intelligence in education impact students’ learning? Our Student Advisory Group and Fair Education Alliance Youth Steering Group are focusing on that question and more in an Festival of Education 🇬🇧 session chaired by Claire Heald

Today Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash publish an update to their teacher labour market report, showing showing job adverts down 27% on 18/19 and -36% on last year.

📢 Post-16 English Language teachers! Join #AQATeamEnglish and the English Association for a free online teach-meet. Get examiner insights, reflect on summer 2025, find out best practice & connect with fellow FE teachers. Book your place now. 👇 ow.ly/SIAy50WiTTK

The Department for Education has published the new 'The Writing Framework'. This useful framework for teaching writing is for primary schools (but it will be of interest to colleagues in secondary schools & more) See here: gov.uk/government/pub…

Looking for excellent examples of character description in literature, that students can use as inspiration for their AQA P1Q5 answers. Anyone have any recommendations?

The #NationalYearOfReading has launched and what a great time to highlight our five new additional texts to our A-level English Literature specifications! Available for first teaching in September 2025, you can find out more here > aqa.org.uk/a-level-litera….

An illustration from 'Moominsummer Madness', 4th in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in 1954 #Womensart #FridayFeeling

English teacher hive mind: What texts are your A-Level students using for coursework this year?

EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media A day of lectures, workshops and discussion to help you teach language change with a focus on digital texts and the latest research. Book by: 8am on 26th September buff.ly/P1YRYHa

I'll be interviewing Nick Gibb about educational reform in England next week. What should I ask?

England win Euro 2025 on penalties, making history by defending title in dramatic victory over Spain bbc.in/4kZxVp1

History, written again by the #Lionesses. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆

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📚 English leads A MUST READ 2025 #WhatKidsAreReading report Link here 👉 renaissance.widen.net/s/xgvpsnhd9q/w… 1. The more they read…the more they like it Only 1 in 5 kids read daily for pleasure. Timetable time. Protect it. Talk about books. Let them choose. 2. Walliams isn’t enough He

Why read books? Because there's a book for EVERYONE out there. And once you find the right book - reading will change your life forever! #literacy (Art: Charles M Schulz)

Happy Birthday UK singer songwriter and musician Kate Bush, #Botd in 1958 #WomensArt

I always love seeing other people’s summer reading lists but have been a bit remiss about posting my own. Perhaps it feels a bit exposing or I worry about what I haven’t read or should be reading. So here are some recent reads of mine. Let me know what I’m missing. Also poetry 🙏

Thursday 28th August 16:30 - FE teacher event with #AQATeamEnglish Subject Support

📝 20% less students from poor backgrounds are taking GCSE languages than students from affluent backgrounds, a report has found schoolsweek.co.uk/expand-dont-do…