Ready for take-off to even greater teaching impact? 🛫 Pivotal Pedagogy Session 5, 'Practice & Retrieval', with the brilliant @spryke2.bsky.social departs tomorrow at 16:00! ✈️ @academytrust.bsky.social colleagues, book your seat now via the ATTI SharePoint. #TransformingPD #TransformingLives #EduSky

We're very egg-cited to return from our Easter break and hop to @spryke2.bsky.social's Pivotal Pedagogy session, taking off 2 weeks today! 🛫 @academytrust.bsky.social colleagues, if you haven't already, sign up via the ATTI SharePoint page now - it's not to be missed ✈️ #TransformingPD #EduSky

Don't miss the next in our Pivotal Pedagogy series this month! Join session 5 with @spryke2.bsky.social for everything you need to know about practice and retrieval 💭📖 @academytrust.bsky.social colleagues can sign up on our SharePoint site now! #TransformingPD #pedagogy #teacherCPD

Playing around with AI to create some guided reading resources for the ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology in the style of @SPBeale’s history template. The essays need a bit of editing but they may be of use for Year 10/11. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/a6tjg...

NEW ‘Power and Conflict - The Interpretations’ revision booklet. I always get students to consider 3 interpretations of each poem & ask them to consider which they agree with the most. Great springboard for debate/new ideas. I’ve collated these into a booklet here 👇🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h5hi3...

Have just added the ‘Macbeth’ cycle to this revision folder. As always, use/chuck/change as you see fit! 👉🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...

Thanks Stuart! Really pleased to have been asked to do it. Check out @teachprimarymag.bsky.social to give it a read. Advice on teaching creatively in a knowledge -led curriculum.

Extremely proud of my friend @abetts.bsky.social who has had an article published in TeachWire this month! Superb piece and a great read for music specialists and non-specialists alike! 😊

In Manchester for the @ttradioofficial.bsky.social Connect event. I’ll be speaking on mastery of writing and thesis statements! #TTRConnect

Amazing share! ♥️

Pulling together the presentations for @ttradioofficial.bsky.social’s #TTRConnect event in Manchester tomorrow, and I can tell you that you’re in for an absolute treat! #inawe #EduSky #TeamEnglish @spryke2.bsky.social @shadylady222.bsky.social @drboyd.bsky.social @gauravdubay.bsky.social

Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...

It's done! RTT: AIC is winging its way to @spryke2.bsky.social & @teachals.bsky.social! It's been a labour of love; I've read 100s of books & journals & learnt so much - 130k words of goodness. @miriamhussain.bsky.social has produced some fab resources. You can pre-order here: shorturl.at/jUlIE

🚨100 DAYS TO GO🚨 The countdown to GCSE English Literature Paper 1 is on! To celebrate, @spryke2.bsky.social and I are giving away TWO copies of our revision workbook, '100 for 100: Macbeth'! 🎭📖 Want to win? RT this post for a chance! Winners picked Friday, 7th February 🎉 #GCSEs #Macbeth

Updates to 2026 AQA English Language exam: ‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’ www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-en...

**Announcement** The countdown has begun so lets announce another speaker!! @spryke2.bsky.social Remember to join us March 1st in Manchester! Get your tickets now via: www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-t...

NEW BLOG: An Inspector Recalls learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-i...

I’m late to the party with this one but THIS BOOK. I’m only 25% of the way through and it is so good. One of those novels that becomes your entire personality - when I’m reading it, I’m immersed and when I’m not reading it, it’s all I’m thinking about. Superb!

Getting back into the swing of teaching with an evening making quotation drills! Always loved this idea from @spryke2.bsky.social #edusky #teamenglish #litdrive #englishwales #aninspectorcalls #quotations #englishteaching #englishlit

Amy and I are going to start editing this after Christmas. Have had a brief look through and all I can say is… wow! This one is looking 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻!

NEW RESOURCE - Session 2 of my ‘Essay Series’ resources now uploaded. This one focuses on constructing the first point of an essay out of a thesis statement. As always, use/chuck/change! More to come soon. @teamenglish1.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...

Here’s an after school revision session on thesis statements, the first in an ‘essay series’, designed to break down the components of a written response so students master each part. More to come soon. Thanks to @FaridaMili for her AIC thesis statement included! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...

Our first scenario is LIVE 👀 Check it out on our substack, have a think and join us for the community conversation on Bluesky on Monday at 8pm. No right answers- just curiosity, sharing thinking and getting real! Sign up for resources, leadership thinking and more- getrealleadershiphub.substack.com

Thank you, John Catt, for the gift! Very timely - will be a great help for what we’re working on at my academy at the moment. Looking forward to reading! @mrzachg.bsky.social

Lesson planning on the topic of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Teaching through the Ghost of Christmas Past. www.miriamhussain.education/writing/chri... Thank you to @hugheshaili.bsky.social @spryke2.bsky.social @teachals.bsky.social 📚📝

Grab your tickets for NEXT WEEK while they're still available! 26th October in Milton Keynes! Tickets: tinyurl.com/2eken9zt

Our next set of ‘Ready to Teach’ books are underway, including our first for A Level! Released across 2025 and 2026 🤩 @teachals.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @miriamhussain.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social

Can’t quite believe that our book is number one currently as a Hot New Release on Amazon. @hugheshaili.bsky.social @spryke2.bsky.social @teachals.bsky.social. I have never been more proud. 💙🥳📚

So many great speakers at @researchedmk.bsky.social Tickets still available: tinyurl.com/2eken9zt Check out the speaker schedule @edumeadows.bsky.social @catrushton.bsky.social @spryke2.bsky.social @profkime.bsky.social @lekhasharma.bsky.social @drsamsims.bsky.social cc: @stulock.bsky.social

🚨 This is happening 2 weeks tomorrow! ✈️ Have you got your tickets to see our @academytrust.bsky.social superstars @catrushton.bsky.social @spryke2.bsky.social & @abijoachim.bsky.social yet? We can't wait!! Book now your space now! 👇 tinyurl.com/4mpmnkwz #TransformingPD #TransformingLives #EduSky

📆Our new #PivotalPedagogy series starts next week for @academytrust.bsky.social colleagues! With expertise from @catrushton.bsky.social, @spryke2.bsky.social & @attideputy.bsky.social around the key components that make up great practice, book your space now via our SharePoint page!✈️ #TransformingPD

SO MANY BRILLIANTLY CLEVER SPEAKERS! Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched... Share and let your buddies know! @spryke2.bsky.social @catrushton.bsky.social

Really excited about this programme. @attideputy.bsky.social and @spryke2.bsky.social are the absolute dream team to plan PD with 🤩 Can’t wait to geek out on pedagogy! Look forward to seeing @academytrust.bsky.social colleagues there! 💙✈️

Honestly, I'm prouder of RTT An Inspector Calls than I've ever been of anything I think I've ever done. Every chapter is 20k words more or less though 🫠 @spryke2.bsky.social and @teachals.bsky.social you have your work cut out for you with editing 🤣 loving working with @miriamhussain.bsky.social

Excited to be speaking at this!

Wishing everyone a happy and successful start to the new academic year. A new chapter full of possibilities! 😁

I’m excited to be returning to it this year! I thoroughly recommend this book to dive in to the wonderful novella that it is! @spryke2.bsky.social @teachals.bsky.social

I really like this idea from @MrRobHistory on Twitter. I’m going to try it with some of my students in English for the literature texts. Great to see how one idea can be utilised across different subjects. Thanks, Derrick! @teamenglish1.bsky.social

Have just watched Michelle Obama’s speech at yesterday’s DNC convention. Superb. There are parts that would work brilliantly for a lesson on persuasive writing and rhetoric! @teamenglish1.bsky.social www.nbcwashington.com/decision-202...

Here are more resources that I’ve been working on over the summer! A set of lessons on English Language, Paper 1. As always, help yourselves and use/chuck/change as you see fit! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bf6zc... @teamenglish1.bsky.social

My first BlueSky resource share! A new booklet designed to help students with considering quotations from the literature texts. As always… use/chuck/change as you see fit! @teamenglish1.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/eimu1...

My good friend, @abetts.bsky.social has arrived on BlueSky. Fantastic teacher and the biggest champion of young people you will meet! Give him a follow!

Missed this the first time- must have been working! Excellent post which is part of a wider issue regarding the fall in respect for the teaching profession across society as a whole. I worked flat putt in lockdown1&2 teaching all lessons on Teams and prepping tons of video support. Knackering.

Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download

Here’s another old blog of mine. This is my most read and was originally published during lockdown. Lots of people engaged with it positively at the time and lots hated it. Was just rereading and reflecting. Does some of this still chime true? englishteachersnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/teac...

It certainly feels like the good old days of Twitter on here doesn’t it? 👍🏻

On holiday on Greece but got a new SoW to plan so look what has come with me @spryke2.bsky.social @teachals.bsky.social Took me half a kilo over my weight allowance too

I see some people are sharing old blog posts. Here’s my offering. This isn’t my most popular in terms of numbers but probably the one I like the most! englishteachersnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/10/high...

My first post! I’m bringing across the Dropbox should anyone like to use any resources in here! They need a bit of tweaking now but might act as a good starting point: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rize2...