I’ve just made this to help students with AQA Lang, P1, Q3 & to stop them from over complicating their answers. Will trial next week. It might work, it might not but it’s worth experimenting to find out! Help yourselves to the sheet/format. Team English dropbox.com/s/8osq4qnb72iq…

Teacher Adam says students struggle with writing because they rarely practice. His fix: start every class with 5-7 minutes of notebook writing about topics students care about (sports, hobbies, books). Drop paragraph formulas like RACE. Just like you can't run a 5K without

I think these are three excellent reports - on SEN, on accountability and on curriculum. CES has analysed policies across 14 different education jurisdictions, including the four jurisdictions in the UK. Definitely worth a look.

Some T&L ideas to help be an “adaptive teacher.” bit.ly/amjadalibook

Double sided knowledge organisers focusing on the Writer’s Methods across key #GCSELiterature texts : litbittz.etsy.com/listing/439370… #writerstoolkits #etsy #gcselit #knowledgeorganiser #shakespeare #ao2 #englishteacher

The student loan scandal - interest on loans is more than the repayments for many on Plan 2 so debt grows trapping them with extra 9% income tax for up to 30 years bit.ly/3NcgO8o £15.2 billion interest added to student loans last year, only £5 billion repaid.

The student loan scam. This is absolutely insane. Just look at the recent enormous jump in interest on student loans. Interest on loans is more than the repayments for many students. They will be saddled with enormous debts (and high interest) for years.

David Bowie picked Annie Lennox to perform Under Pressure with him at the '92 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. This rehearsal is AMAZING. Bowie’s expression alone is PRICELESS. What other famous artist can you spot?

Student loans are becoming a headline area of interest recently. As a doctor who trained and is now working in the UK, I thought I would share my situation. Despite working for almost three years, my loan has continued to grow, and now sits at this amount. [1/7].

Delilah Here’s a link to a huge bank of retrieval practice resources I have made and shared over the years, organised into sub-folders for ✅ An Inspector Calls ✅ Macbeth ✅ A Christmas Carol ✅ P & C poetry ✅ L & R poetry Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/ba5hrxc…

A list of techniques that students can use in their transactional writing. Designed to be stuck into books for reference douglaswise.co.uk/blog/transacti… 📝

Y11 intervention led by our resident language paper 1 senior examiner 💭✨ Q1-4 top tips. ⭐ #aqaenglish #aqalanguage #gcseenglish

#quotesanalysis #macbeth #shakespeare #gcseliterature

Another one-pager aimed at KS3, created in the same style as previously used, focusing on writers perspectives, attitudes and ideas. Feedback very much invited, and thank you in advance. drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

This summer, the NATE Conference comes to University of Manchester on Tuesday 7th July. Join us to explore curriculum change, refresh your practice and reconnect with why English matters. Get 25% off with the code EARLYBIRD if you book before 31st March. nate.org.uk/product/nate-c…

"Will they cope with demanding texts?" This is the question I hear most often when colleagues first encounter our KS3 materials. A MAT recently introduced our humanities resources. Staff were sceptical. The texts felt too demanding for their pupils. /1

Great to be back working at George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, for part 2 of our Power Up Your Pedagogy series. This morning’s session focused on feedback, exploring key messages from this sketchnote summary👇 (taken from the book, Power Up Your Pedagogy:

Straight into a co-construction, live modelled response today to bolster our thesis and analysis alignment 🤝 6 simple steps to create our skeleton and then fine tuning to maximise marks 💪

Watch this from Historian Sir Anthony Seldon 👏 ➡️ Calls to wipe student debt and pay for it out of general taxation ➡️ Bring in Martin Lewis and give him four weeks to find a solution ➡️ There are no dead end courses eg the arts, stresses universities are so much more,

NEW Is reading comprehension even a thing? And if it is, how should we teach it? open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…