Settings. Been looking at adjectives. Lesson starts with adj sort - sorting diff types of adjs (revising order of adjs). Gives ppls base vocab to start, which can be extended. Then we look at how we build these into noun phrases. Lots of mini-w work linking grammar + writing

If you are booked onto this tomorrow, please check your email to make sure that you have the zoom link ready to join. Please let me know ASAP with any issues. See you tomorrow! #TeamRE

🚨 Member upload 🚨 Writing: A collection of resources for a lesson on dystopian horror and creative writing. 🐝 Find it here: https://buff.ly/48y1bih🔗 #Litdrive #TeamEnglish @Team_English1

adam-robbins.com/2021/11/14/w... This blog is a few years old but I really like it. Going to share with T&L team. @mrarobbins.bsky.social

The Orwell Youth Prize 2025 OPEN for entries, to UK secondary school students!Theme is ‘FREEDOM IS...’ “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” – Nineteen Eighty-Four ‘What does freedom mean to you?’ www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...

The English HOD Hangout is back. Our first meeting takes place at 7.30pm on October 14th. Free to sign up. Go to litdrive.org.uk/events. Select 'Subject Leadership Forum 1' The first meeting is going to look at the summer results! Please spread the word! #englishhodhangout

#TeamRE full course data for GCSEs 2024 (England) by exam board. Data from exam boards vs JCQ.

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made a short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?...

Ooohh look what’s arrived 👀 Just a little something the English team Carlton Bolling have developed together for the next phase as we continue to refine our subject pedagogy. 1/2 👇

My most popular #metacognition resource has had over 400 downloads worldwide. Visit my website or click the link here to download: drive.google.com/file/d/1dUwr...

Meanwhile, this is likely the most useful thing I collated and pulled together. It was entirely the result of the collaboration of teachers and I reckon would still be very helpful for English teachers. englishremnantworld.wordpress.com/an-english-t...

A first resource to share on Bluesky! Reference pages for three of the GCSE English Literature texts www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/gcse-en... Designed to be stuck into books at the start of a sequence of lessons 👑 👻 ❄️

Has anyone made an AQA RS GCSE results tracker with grade boundaries like @matt-lynch.bsky.social does for English? #TeamRE

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

Thx for sharing yr interesting blog. To add the following free online event from the EA englishassociation.ac.uk/developing-a...

Blog below on #Oracy - to add to it : this free online event from @englishassociation.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/oracy-educat...

#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9... (Paper 2 to follow shortly)

Have just finished rewriting the overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. It's still a work in progress but please feel free to use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

*NEW* AQA Lang & Lit mock exam trackers using June 24 boundaries. RAG rated cell formatting and formula columns locked to prevent accidental data corruption, like so 👇 Help yourselves and RT for a wider audience. #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2cx4a...

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Everything I know about teaching AQA English Language Paper 1, Q2 (Part 3- Polishing) Thank you to @carolinesherwood.bsky.social and Laura Webb for inspiring lots of these ideas. mrho11and.wixsite.com/educated-thi...

1. Work out basics (4+, 5+, 7+) for Lit, Lang & combined 2. Break down for all significant groups (PP, EAL, male, female - whatever is relevant in your context) 3. Compare with previous years, and with national (JCQ have now published national grade distribution by subject)… 2/

If you are line managing colleagues this year, here is my summary of the issues we face and what we can do about them... #UKEd www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/how-do-...

🧵🧵A thread of tips on effective modelling 🧵🧵 1. Chunk the model into parts, performing the I do-We do-You do for one chunk before going back to the I do-We do-You do for chunk 2. This prevents cognitive overload from having to remember a large amount of steps/content in their working memories.

National Poetry Day 3rd Oct: Theme = Counting @englishassociation.bsky.social On line event to ‘explore connections between poetry & maths…ideas for classroom activities to celebrate National #Poetry Day 😊that bring joy to both the English & Maths classroom’ englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count...

Bookmark would be really helpful #bluesky?

Teachers ! 📣This event is for any teacher with an interest in developing children’s spoken language, whether in their own classroom or at whole school level. FREE on line #SpokenLanguage #Teaching englishassociation.ac.uk/developing-a...

Great to speak to Tina Daheley on BBCRadio2 about results day - and to hear Bridget Phillipson speak about her plans for closing the gap 🙌 If you missed it, you can hear me share your amazing @teachertapp.bsky.social advice here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is pretty much perfect 😍 I know it’s not everyone’s favourite play, but I have been listening to a little every night and the dialogue still gets me! Mrs Birling is one of my favourite villains. #teamenglish www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All of my Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 resources in one big folder just in time for the switch over to #EduSky - still haven’t sorted Key Stage 5 but will do very soon 🥰 any new schemes I make before September will be shared separately! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

#Edusky #edchat

Back to the future! 🎉🎉🎉

I love this place. I just log in, check my lists and feeds of interest and done. No ads, no melting-pot feed with people trying to please the algorithm. No drudgery. Just stuff I'm interested in.

A level Grade boundaries 2024 We’re off! Edexcel has gone early! Will be updated as released. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New MFL teachers to Blue Sky, find other MFL people who’ve already joined, through using this list. Also let me know if you wanna be added so we can get MFL up and off the ground! 👏🏻 bsky.app/profile/did:...

X friends: Let’s connect on here too. Just getting set up but will get round to following back! Keen to replicate the community from there on here: we all know it may become a need not an optional extra. Pls repost so we can all find each other as it doesn’t seem as easy as on X.

If you're looking to improve the effectiveness of your teaching, modelling might be an area where you can marginal gains. In this blog post @jdurran.bsky.social shines a light on modelling at different stages in the lesson and gives examples in different subject areas.

New: A 44 page booklet for KS3 study of Romeo & Juliet, including things like: * knowledge organiser * key speeches with Q prompts * act by act knowledge quizzes * social & cultural context info * writing tasks Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mvzvc...

Wonderful blog! 🥰”With teachers like Mr Laing, who patently loved teaching mathematics, believing in the limitless potential of my friends and I, anything felt possible, and we flourished. That feeling, and those memories, have never left me and they inform how I try to teach”.

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...