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💭 Bridie McPherson and I have been thinking hard about thinking hard in English and across the curriculum - how do we get students to REALLY think? This is what we’ve got so far… here’s how how it could sound in a classroom! 💭

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to visit Oasis Academy South Bank by Josie Sacks and Bridie McPherson to see their English department in action. We left feeling so grateful for the team’s generosity & incredibly enthused by the fab practice we saw. Highlights attached:

We had whole school outset today Oasis Academy South Bank! I had the great privilege of visiting Waterside Academy for the day! The #1 school in the country for p8 with 60%+ of students disadvantaged (we are #3). Loads of takeaways and reflections from a brilliant visit 🧵

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Work with us Oasis Academy South Bank !!! tes.com/jobs/vacancy/a… I really bloody love our curriculum, pedagogy, systems, staff + students. I think the English Dept are doing something really special - DM me! Come and see us teach! And apply for this corker of a job!

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I’m usually allergic to acronyms but ‘zoom in a BIT’ is v powerful for helping students internalise expectations of analysis. Works across Lit + Lang! drive.google.com/file/d/1ET8a9R…

🧵 Secondary school context: we use a 'sports tracker' for students athletes who are (sometimes, recently) falling below school expectation - a final chance to improve their attitude to learning around school before a fixture (they get to use this "card" once a year only).

11. Versatile Vocabulary: building the foundations of an empowering English curriculum Josie Sacks Josie Sacks, Oasis Academy South Bank has been working on helping students feel successful (not alienated) in English

If you’ve got a spare 10 mins and fancy thinking about curric / vocab, I made a session for We Are In Beta Curriculum Thinking Week - it’s about how to use versatile Tier 2 vocabulary to create an empowering English Curriculum that leaves no one behind weareinbeta.community/posts/curricul…

This!!!! +versatile vocab, explicitly taught, to make those concepts: 1. Codified 2. Accessible to every student 3. Regularly recalled

So proud of our students, our staff and our bloody lovely school!

Best day of the year at South Bank! Josie Sacks and I had been dreaming of these kinds of numbers when we started implementing this English curriculum and are so proud of our team + students 9s 16% 7+ 52% 5+ 80% 4+ 93%

Yesterday was bloody brilliant! So so proud of our students, our English HoD and 👑 Bridie McPherson, our team, and our curriculum. It really really works!!! 9s 16% 7+ 52% 5+ 80% 4+ 93% 🕺 versatile vocabulary, concise, precise knowledge, explicit writing instruction 🕺

Josie Sacks and I are delighted to be amoung these outstanding schools with +1.5 P8 for English. Oasis Academy South Bank English results are 12th best in the country! With a 65% FSM cohort, 120 students in the year and 95% EBACC, and a whole lot of dedicated and expert teachers.

🕺🕺thank you Mouhssin Ismail - this is what *really* matters most to us + to our English curriculum

Huge congratulations to Bridie McPherson and her colleagues for an exceptional performance. This simple number represents a huge number of children's lives made tangibly better. There is nothing better than this. Well done to Oasis Academy Southbank.

It's taken a village to raise a child, but if your village has an English department like ours, that child is going to get a bloody good deal! We are so proud of Bridie McPherson and Josie Sacks who are two of the most talented people in education without a doubt!