So confusing. Haydn was both earlier and later than Mozart. Brukner was earlier and later than Brahms. Wagner was about the same age as his father in law Liszt. And his wife Cosima died after Eric Satie. But Stravinski died the same year as Louis Armstrong who was the same age as the Queen Mum.

Limbo's looking up!

Yes! LA car wash owner sues for $50m after being slammed and detained in Ice raid | California | The Guardian share.google/pXfyr9vcUaIo...

How are you setting vocab homework for the new GCSE? I can't find lots of Quizlet sets that people have made... whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/09/is-c...

Heard this on that annoying R3 programme that has poems and they don't tell you the names of the pieces of music. Liked the way it feels as if someone took the Owl and the Pussy Cat and rewrote it with more adult content. www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit...

Slowly closing in on a quarter of a million views. Let's hope some of these posts reach someone who can do something about it. Or at least stop them suggesting language teachers aren't up to the job. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com

Important to keep this in mind. AQA cannot come up with one of their unofficial speaking mark tick sheets that demands more than what is clearly specified here as a well developed answer.

How much of this has turned out to be true? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/12/evol...

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

What are Y7 learning when they meet a new language? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...

Children in London are being recruited by hostile states such as Russia and Iran to carry out sabotage and other crimes The Met's head of counter-terrorism, said some recruits were teenagers and that parents should monitor what their children were doing online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seems the further away you are from teaching, the louder your voice and your pet project is heard. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/09/04/h...

Even the "summary" question in A Level Spanish isn't what it says on the can. It's a grammar test. And pretty recondite stuff too. lo la le or se ? Famously tricky and ambiguous.

buttondown.com/Risu/archive... I have changed my security education newsletter to focus on 3-5 main ai and edtech stories every two weeks. So that busy education workers and interested parties can quickly get the main info. I hope might be of interest to some

Leos Janacek played the organ at Gregor Mendel's funeral.

If Mozart had lived to 70, he could have got on a train. (If he travelled by coach and horses to Stockton or Darlington.)

Keir Starmer explains the Conservatives set up asylum hotels after they stopped processing asylum seeker claims creating the huge backlog of people in limbo

How did the university body that "reformed" A Level to contain more knowledge and intellectual heft and less of that inferior language learning business come up with their recommendations?

Even the "summary" question in A Level Spanish isn't what it says on the can. It's a grammar test. And pretty recondite stuff too. lo la le or se ? Famously tricky and ambiguous.

Looking for cheerful posts. I think this counts: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...

Looking for fun and useful posts. Maybe this one? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/04/gap-...

Looking for a seriously useful post. How about this one? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-...

Looking for a post on something that really makes a difference. Found this: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/11/dual...

Looking for a post people say they love. This apparently is some people's favourite: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-y...

A post on something I used this week? Notice the end bit, about how this leads directly to scaffolded writing for pupils who need it. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/07/conn...

A post on something that someone else told me they are using this week. Try the second of these two ideas: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/05/nice...

Is this my favourite post? It may be! whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/11/part...

My least favourite post? This one from 4 and a half years ago when we first got wind of what they wanted to do to MFL teaching. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/04/no-m...

Short thread on the nonsense being pushed by the media.

The government wants to limit international student numbers. Yet only 1% of the public think reducing them should be a priority. Exchanges expand horizons, break down prejudice, build global understanding. Why the resistance? Jenny Rhodes reports

My least favourite post? This one from 4 and a half years ago when we first got wind of what they wanted to do to MFL teaching. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/04/no-m...

Is this my favourite post? It may be! whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/11/part...

A post on something that someone else told me they are using this week. Try the second of these two ideas: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/05/nice...

A post on something I used this week? Notice the end bit, about how this leads directly to scaffolded writing for pupils who need it. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/07/conn...

Looking for a post people say they love. This apparently is some people's favourite: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-y...

Looking for a post on something that really makes a difference. Found this: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/11/dual...

Looking for a seriously useful post. How about this one? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-...

Looking for fun and useful posts. Maybe this one? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/04/gap-...

Looking for cheerful posts. I think this counts: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

War ravaged Portland

Has the "pillars" idea made MFL incoherent? Certainly feels like it with GCSE at the moment. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/look...

In MFL we are used to telling pupils that targets based on KS2 English & maths can't possibly know how good they are at MFL. But that isn't entirely honest. The targets reveal an unwelcome truth: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/unfa...

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