I remember when I first started teaching this class. At most, the students wrote no more than a topic sentence & a quote. Today, the class approached a question independently, with no sentence starters at all. The quality of work speaks for itself. I’m so proud of them all!

After the third week in, I can finally say, I’ve made progress with the long list of jobs I’ve had to work through! #littlewins

This is fun and there are some absolute gems in here, along with some ugsome terms that might give you the morbs. #linguistics theconversation.com/gen-zs-langu...

Today in our CPD we were considering how worldly our curriculums are. This is our English curriculum...some work potentially to do in Y8/9 but not a bad spread.

This is what my bank holiday weekend has looked like! Roll on the countdown to September 👏🏽

To read widely is to pay attention to whether, at minimum, you regularly read outside your genres, forms, and languages of preference, as well as work by writers with whom you do not share identities, communities, cultures, or places. It is often difficult to notice unwanted patterns in reading

Hello edu-Bluesky! 👋 For those of you thinking about what’s coming up this week, here’s a thread I wrote last year about GCSE results data… This is an overview of what I do when I get my data in… 👇

Extremely excited to use this! @positiveteacherco.bsky.social

The BAMEed Network has collated some resources to help schools post these riots Bit.ly/racism2024 Before lots of schools have already done this tweets continue- click on the link and review whether schools HAVE already done what we’ve recommended.

Fantastic blog on the connection between curriculum, PD & retention ‘We want to keep great teachers in our classrooms & we can only do that by giving them the time & resources to do their jobs well’. If you’re #TeamEnglish & not read Sam’s book - make it your next edu read - you won’t regret it

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...