• 3 7 F O R 3 7 • Happy NY! This year I read a book for every year of my life and really enjoyed it. (Well bar one!) (@Mrs_D_EngLP 😉) last one was,ironically, The Last Wife, K Hamilton. Can’t upload that many photos!

Really interesting blog: accountability and autonomy. Would love to try and balance this a bit better.

On Friday, 7MO and 7BP were lucky enough to have spoken word poet and artist Duke Al give them a workshop about 'imagination' and poetry. What an inspiring session for our very lucky students! Duke Al

We cannot think of a better way to end our Friday than this: Our very own Mr Hobbs has been moved to write this incredible poem about our corridors. What an amazing watch! What an inspiring teacher! What a great school! We are so very lucky!!! 🫶

Before the Inspector arrives -> When the Inspector arrives.

***BOOK GIVEAWAY ALERT*** 📣 To celebrate the release of ‘Teaching One-Pagers’, I am giving away THREE copies of the book and access to this exclusive poster on Learning & Memory. To enter, simply REPOST this post. Winners will be picked at random and announced on Monday 27th

Hardly surprising reading and would love to see this change. theguardian.com/books/article/…

*** Getting Reading Fluency Right *** “The more intentional we are about reading aloud in class, and developing fluency, the better.” alexquigley.co.uk/getting-readin…

📚 What does literacy look like in your subject? Chloe Butlin our literacy specialist, introduces a new resource to support teachers and leaders to use disciplinary literacy. Read more: ow.ly/Vui850SAuAI

I have created an overview document of the new spec for WJEC 2025 Double and Single award, sharing in case it is of use. It is based on the spec released on Friday. CSC_LLC docs.google.com/document/d/1mB…

Has anyone taught or have any comments regarding suitability of teaching this to Year 7? Team English Team English & Literacy, Wales CSC_LLC

This is good from Megan Dixon I think that one of the issues we often have in secondary schools is that there isn’t enough knowledge about reading assessment in general. I actually like using reading age as a metric, because it’s useful for communication with staff… 1/

Second book of the hols in progress and really liking it. Just what I needed!

This is a really good blog on disciplinary literacy and reading complex texts.

This morning I’m reading about vocabulary challenges in GCSE exams. I wrote this on ‘Why teaching academic vocabulary matters’: alexquigley.co.uk/why-teaching-a…

Ready for the new school year? 😅😅 Our Voicing Vocabulary report has five easy actions that you can take to harness oracy as an effective tool for vocabulary development (including some that help support students' transition from Primary to Secondary)👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0b-Nb30

For those asking: this is the overview. Specific modelling by an expert reader, regular opportunities for fluency practise and oral rehearsal and specific, powerful feedback embedded throughout. A repeating structure over the weeks, with just the text changing.

One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writing-r… ✍️

Thank you to Whitmore High School for a great first session of SLDP. Loved seeing Mrs S. Ford and the great English work.