So pleased to share this news with you. I could not be more proud of our Dulwich family and of our Teachers who make a difference every day. Not too shabby for a school that hasn’t yet celebrated its 7th birthday #ISAwards2021 #good2great

My latest blog post on the features of Immersive Reader, a free tool within Microsoft that has the potential for significant impact on students who struggle with reading and English as a second language edtechinaction.co.uk/blog/impact-im…

This paper has been on my mind for 5 years. Analyzing 1.6k novels, it argues that there are six basic arcs for stories: 1/3 1 Rags to Riches (rise) 2 Riches to Rags (fall) 3 Man in a Hole (fall rise) 4 Icarus (rise fall) 5 Cinderella (rise fall rise) 6 Oedipus (fall rise fall)

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I'm getting congratulation messages from all over the world. Thank you all so much. I never forget this is a team effort, and I think it's not just about the production team. We had some great performers on the show, speaking their truth to the world. Poetry has arrived. Word up.

Me in UK in 1999 as child refugee from Afghanistan. Today got featured by The Times and The Sunday Times Times Magazine as a doc saving lives in NHS & world-wide. All possible because of receiving compassion & safety. Let's show kindness to many others like me. How started How going

Simplicity of narrative is something I’ve been trying to get across to my GCSE classes for a long time when it comes to P1, Q5. Reading Chris Curtis’s blog on this has made it much clearer. Looking forward to trying out this lesson I’ve made in response! Thanks, Chris! Team English

The second read of the summer finished. Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘Empireland’ is a nuanced and personal look at imperialism. Having taught in Wolverhampton for three years and now Singapore for three, I’ve got a lot to think about. Looking forward to sharing extracts with Y12 in August.

So proud of these 47 International Old Alleynians.They have always been a special year group. Congratulations also to our wonderful Teachers for going above and beyond and always putting our students first. It worked!#Classof2021 #DCSG #IBDP #good2great

The UK is home to people from all backgrounds and cultures, enriching our communities and contributing to our success. When we celebrate England, we celebrate the differences that make us stronger. We celebrate who we are. We celebrate home. #ItsComingHome #ENG #EURO2020

My tips for GCSE teaching in one Tweet 1) Masses of modelling 2) Booklets 3) Retrieval (but make it English-y) 4) Prioritise authentic student response 5) Whole class feedback 6) What, How, Why 7) Think about what the text does, not what the author thinks 8) Make it granular

1. In The Coddling, Greg Lukianoff and I pointed to Instagram as a main suspect in the sudden rise of depression/anxiety among Gen Z girls that began around 2012. New report: Facebook’s own internal research supports that hypothesis. wsj.com/articles/faceb…

Teaching Bo Burnham's 'Inside' as a BoW for Y12 IBDP Eng LangLit A. 'The World's Wife' is the anchor Lit text and Caitlin Moran's 'Moranifesto' 2nd BoW. Gl: Identity. Limited Bo resources around so have made booklet of lit, lyrics and stills for students to annotate- DM for copy.

Is the English language racist? Resources for evaluating the racist semantics, syntax, & morphology within our language. docs.google.com/presentation/d… Team English @EngLangBlog #ALevelEnglishLanguage

A beautiful week out with Year 9; can’t believe it’s the first trip in over 600 days. Just great to be away from campus: fresh air, blue skies - greenery and just general movement!!!

"A woman's place is in the struggle: Women of the world unite: International Women's Day," 1990. This archival poster is from the Digital Innovation South Africa, as part of the Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa primary source collection on JSTOR. #InternationalWomensDay

I'll be honest, I'm almost slightly proud of this meme my Year 11s made about me this week.

Getting out of my subject to lead and organise this event for Year 9 was a career highlight for me, the effort and talent on display from our students was incredible. But I think the real success was this TikTok I spent over an hour editing… #downwiththekids

I’m almost looking forward to a year of English marking with Chat GPT technology and this personalised stamp of my face.

The first English trip I've organised since 2019 (it's rare we get a set text live in Singapore). 62 Y10 students exceptionally well behaved at this evening performance of 'An Inspector Calls' with a Singaporean twist! Couldn't do it without a great English dept to support!