NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes: ✅ Enduring Love ✅ Hound of the Baskervilles ✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping ✅To Kill a Mockingbird Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...

NEW* for AQA: English Lang & Lit mock exam trackers, using June 2025 boundaries and RAG rating for QLA, for each paper like so 👇 Repost and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f3mf7...

*NEW* for AQA: 2026 English Language & Literature exam date posters, like these 👇 There’s 23 in the folder covering most set texts. Repost and help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sp8bi...

*NEW* for 2026 onwards: updated and some brand new specimen AQA Lang P2s with accompanying PPT slide decks to support teaching. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...

#Macbeth #GCSE #macbethrevision #shakespeareshorts #edusky youtube.com/shorts/AnVHS...

🚨 GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🚨 I’m giving away signed copies of the Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley series so far - The Jigsaw Man, The Binding Room, and the newly released The Kill List! 🎉Want to win? Head over to my Instagram page to enter. 👇🏾 www.instagram.com/p/DFkY4Xjgv-...

@matt-lynch.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social Using Matt's excellent resources and playing around with the new AQA 2026 Lang 1 format. DM me any edit suggestions/feedback and will update as I go along! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qivo4...

To reflect changes to AQA GCSE English Lang P2 for 2026 onwards, here’s a folder of 10 specimen papers. Help yourself and please re-post to reach a wider audience. Thanks 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...

Given that Altar Mitty likes joining a new branch of religion every five minutes, maybe he should become a Buddhist next and learn all about Karma.

AQA GCSE English Lang P1 and 2 changes announced today - first examined June 2026. Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...

NEW for AQA Lang P1: for use with ‘The Silent Patient’. A set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds, like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/syara...

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

New cushions, inspired by Frida Kahlo’s self portraits. 😍

*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Why can’t OFSTED just use 2 descriptors: ‘Secure’ and ‘Support Required’ ?

Cicero was a very wise man

Review tasks for each act of Macbeth www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/act-by-... 👑

Review sheets for each stave of A Christmas Carol www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/stave-b... 👻

Revision checklists for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/revisio... Designed to help guide revision, so will need a bit of elaboration ✅

📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Develop your knowledge of Macbeth with this online CPD from Matt Lynch exploring the motif of birds in the play. 🐝 Find it here: https://buff.ly/3zUYYAh #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...

NEW BLOG: Booklets for GCSE English Language and Literature. More to follow. learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/book...

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Does your study skills curriculum work?' "Do pupils need to know about ‘working memory’ or ‘procrastination’? Will a ‘study skills curriculum’, or a revision programme, really make a vital difference?" alexquigley.co.uk/does-your-st...

A big danger of prescriptive lessons is that the success indicator becomes the degree of consistency over experiences and outcomes.

Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!

📢 App Version 1.90 is rolling out now (1/11) This release is focused on personal moderation controls, and includes a lot of new tools for reducing unwanted attention! Open this thread for more details. 👀

NEW POST: on English Curriculum and the Spherical Cow... funkypedagogy.com/english-curr...

You might not have seen this during your holiday, but the Spellow Lane Library Hub was seriously damaged by fire during the riots in Liverpool. All proceeds from this new CPD session on teaching novels will be donated to the rebuild effort: t.co/2ZkZEeR1Zv Please share and consider supporting 📚❤️

Hey #EduSky! If you're a Head of English looking at improving your KS4 provision this year, you might find my 'Lifting English' program helpful. It looks at practical changes to make GCSE curriculum and prep more effective. You can sign up to the Oct or Nov cohorts here: forms.gle/7GhFjZF7yGd9...

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

I've created a Yr 7 booklet for Lord of the Flies. Just gauging interest before I post it? @teamenglish1.bsky.social

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...

Following the Paper 1 exam report shared earlier, please find a synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 2 Examiners' Report for June 2024 here: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...

*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...

#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)

If you're resourcing your Eng Lang A level, my list of book recommendations has recently been updated. Have a look here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Next up: from the queen of domestic noir thrillers, Shari Lapena #BookSky 💙📚

Entertaining cosy crime. #BookSky 💙📚

Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...

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 👑 👻 ❄️

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...

I’m an ECT in English and this year I’ll be taking my first A Level class. Any tips and tricks from fellow KS5 practitioners? I’ll be teaching Eng Lit with OCR, kicking off with Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’. #teamenglish #edusky

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… 👇

157 posts already! Wow- I think I am moving to here fully ain’t I! Ok- #EduSky #UKED here’s something for you! With GCSE exam results approaching here’s something you may wish to get your students to do post their mocks? newtothepost.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/r... Exam wrappers!

Had an upper molar removed this afternoon and the anaesthetic is wearing off. Send strong painkillers 💊 and cat pics. But mainly painkillers.