Kieran Rhys
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Teacher of English 👔 HOY (NPQLBC) 🤝 Former MAT Strategic Lead for Reading📚 Passionate about all things reading, literacy, and T&L related! ✍️
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Huge Ofsted focus from their visit last week was on the reading culture across the school and how it is promoted by all 🎯 I've created a 'September Ready' guide for just that 📖
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This was a massive job, but I am really pleased with the outcome! A recommended reading route throughout KS3 related to the curriculum, offering regular opportunities to read around the genres we study! 🚆
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RE-EVALUATING READING THIS SEPTEMBER ⬇️🎯
📢Really excited to be able to offer an exciting collection of resources and materials to ensure reading is the September priority across the school this year! If you are interested, please drop me a message for more information! 📚
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'Snack Bite Reading' - currently a collection of 70 extracts in menu holders to display around the school (from canteens to classrooms) to immerse students in reading! Linked to my literacy calendar, it develops cultural capital too! 🍪
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Scaffolding our responses using a structure strip as a guide has been beneficial this academic year 🪜
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Thank you for all the kind words and messages! I have uploaded it to my Dropbox for you to download ⬇️
I hope you all find it useful! Lots more to come this summer☀️
Huge Ofsted focus from their visit last week was on the reading culture across the school and how it is promoted by all 🎯 I've created a 'September Ready' guide for just that 📖
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After some really useful AQA CPD, I decided a different method of quote explosion based on the feedback from the last assessment. The quality of the comments today was much stronger as a result 🙌
A really productive lesson developing exam strategy for Language Paper 1 with one of my favourite extracts 🙌The slap on the board as the doll is smashed always wakes up the class too!
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🫳👇 Every booklet is in my Dropbox for those who have been in touch. Really hope people find them useful and they help with workload 🙏 Message me if you have any questions!
Final reading booklet of the year completed ✅Refusing to let half-term flu stop me this week 🤧
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Hope it saves everyone a moment at the start of this new academic year 🙏 Would love to see pictures of them around the school!⬇️
'Snack Bite Reading' - currently a collection of 70 extracts in menu holders to display around the school (from canteens to classrooms) to immerse students in reading! Linked to my literacy calendar, it develops cultural capital too! 🍪
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A friend messaged me the other day about being really unsure how to support students with their reading in her subject (mainly Science!). I pinged over this resouce and apparently there is much more of a 'buzz' and 'routine' around reading already🙏 Small steps 👣🤞
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I've had quite a few messages/comments about a guide to support good reading habits at home. Hope people find this useful ⬇️
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Incredibly pleased with how our reading intervention booklets have worked this academic year. Using termly reading data, teachers create specfic tasks for each topic extract to support student progress. Based on the wonderful academic reading research.
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📺📚 FOOL ME ONCE! A real labour of love this one! Over 60 slides creating a full Language Paper 1 sequence on Harlan Coben's 'Fool Me Once' opening! Questions, model answers, formatted resources, exam strategy, and scaffolding for each question 🙌
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For every school I visited, I would always start with an honest reflection of what they feel they do to support reading. Always amazing to see how much IS done and how much more CAN be done with limited impact on workload/resources too 🔑📚
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I am really humbled by the response and kind words from those who have been in touch! Please follow and drop me a message if you are still interested or if I have missed your message! 🙏It is great to see so many people passionate about all things reading!📚
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Decided to try something different with 'slow writing' today to craft an engaging response. I really got into writing this one and forgot it was a LP1 Q5 for a moment! 😅 Hoping this border will be useful with our crafting steps though⚙️
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Question 3 today and the perfect opportunity to trial the new scaffolding sheet 🙏 Our average independent response score went up 55% after using the sheet, so hopefully it makes a lasting impact!
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By treating high-tier vocabulary as the thread between each SOL, students are able to develop confidence with the use of this vocabulary as they complete their GCSE studies in KS4.
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✅ Incredibly important to ensure EVERY student is supported with their reading. This initial guide features evidence-based strategies for a cross-curricular approach to support dyslexic students with their reading! 📖
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Tweaking my building better descriptions guide (slow writing) for the new academic year 🐢
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Final reading booklet of the year completed ✅Refusing to let half-term flu stop me this week 🤧
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A collection of prompts and questions to support the process of live-modelling in the classroom 🔎CPD incoming...⌛️
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Productive revision session on 'Poppies' today using a revision clock 🐦🪦
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A productive session today trialling the new LP1 Q4 strategy to evaluate statements with Y11 🙏
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If you follow me/the post, I'm happy to share these as soon as possible! Thanks for all the kind words 🙌
'Snack Bite Reading' - currently a collection of 70 extracts in menu holders to display around the school (from canteens to classrooms) to immerse students in reading! Linked to my literacy calendar, it develops cultural capital too! 🍪
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Working on a guide to develop literacy standards in secondary schools based on the EEF guidance, vocabulary tracking, and disciplinary literacy 🤓
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Trying to push away the glandular fever fatigue by creating conceptual vocabulary tracking maps and linked tasks. Designed to increase exposure and contextual use of tier 2/3 vocabulary for KS4 Literature studies 👑 A thread between the years 🪡
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Focusing our attention on anaphora and epistrophe today! Really interesting to see how the speech writing is developing (LP2 Q5)🙏
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An acadmic reading of Chris Power's article provided a great platform for our pre-reading this morning 🧱The routine has become automatic and consistent, ensuring the text is treated as the heartbeat of the lesson every time 🫀
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Using our 'Crafting Borders' has been a lot of fun and the quality increase has been 🤯 so far! Looking forward to scaling down to KS3 too! 💭
Decided to try something different with 'slow writing' today to craft an engaging response. I really got into writing this one and forgot it was a LP1 Q5 for a moment! 😅 Hoping this border will be useful with our crafting steps though⚙️
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Starting our creative writing sessions with 15 minutes to annotate a WAGOLL and magpie 5 words, phrases or techniques 💨💨 Getting quicker and quicker in our evaluating and subsequent crafting in the process! 🎯
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Here you go:
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⚽🇺🇸 Always really enjoy teaching a LP2 sequence on Ted Lasso! I Do, We Do, You Do model to build up our analysis of language 🔎
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Today, we started our PRE-READING booklet for 'An Inspector Calls' - laying the vital contextual foundations and developing our LP2 understanding in the process! Really important to outline the WHAT, HOW, and WHY to support all learners 🧠
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Created some 'Roll Your Own Story' sheets where students roll a dice to decide different elements of their story! Hoping to use them for some end of year tasks or an enrichment scheme next year🎲
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Shared a guide on how students should be supported across the school last year and was so pleased to catch up with a former colleague who told me they still use it today in their lessons 🙏
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Period 5 academic reading of 'Hunger Games' went well today! 🏹 So pleased this routine 🙌
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After using academic reading for the last couple of years and seeing how well students responded to having a clear and evidence-informed routine, I have developed an academic writing process to trial with my groups! Looking forward to seeing how they respond 🖐️
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A reminder to anyone entering our classroom of WHAT we do, HOW we do it, and WHY we do it! 🧠 Our classroom non-negotiables celebrate what we do best 💪
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Latest guide is all about developing reading fluency in the classroom 💬 A topic of such high importance, but not always the easiest to explicitly target! 🎯
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Carol 'Fan' Duffy was a well-needed laugh with my 10s today...Witty bunch 😂👏
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Evaluating our Q5 responses today using our 'Crafting Checklist' ✅ So pleased with the progress this week 🎯 Ofsted looked intrigued in the whole process too 🤷♂️😂
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LP2, Q5 today revision today! To capture the thought process, I love extending our margins and documenting our journey, self-assessing at key points. Always seems to be a really beneficial process! ⚽️
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Responses were much sharper, varied, and creative using our D.S.Z.Z.L structure today! 🎯
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Great progress today with our LP2, Q5 responses on fast fashion 🧥 ✅ Successful evaluation of a WAGOLL, crafting a killer introduction, and developing our argument through a range of techniques. All key targets from our mock exams 🎯
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With a thought process margin down the left to precisely capture the journey, and a modelled response at the top, we explored LP1 Q3 through an extract from 'Jaws' today🦈Clear progress today with this method of scaffolding🙌
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"My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6th 1973" 🐟
My favourite extract(s) to teach structure ⬇️
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Designing some whole school reading strategies and support guides for September tonight 📚
Research ➡️ Plan ➡️ Design ✅
#MondayMotivaton
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A sneak preview of a real passion project to plot suggested reading around each scheme of learning across KS3. Another step in promoting a reading for pleasure culture without restricting choice 🚇 Lots of late nights, but I'm really pleased how it's all pieced together! 🙌
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After working with primary schools, networking with colleagues across different phases, and my own experience with Year 7, I can't stress enough how important it is to 'Bottle the Reading Magic' and not let reading for pleasure get lost in the shuffle of secondary school life! 🪄
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After a couple of terms securing the routine and developing reps, I'm really keen to make the process and the intent behind it explicit, ensuring all students know the WHY behind what we do with academic reading and can articulate it accordingly! 🖐️📚
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Developing our General - Specific - Thesis introduction structure before live-modelling a response for students to capture the thought process accordingly 💭 Continuing to stress the importance of a killer introduction! 💪
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Developing our Question 2 responses today by developing our identification of methods and commenting on the effect 🔎 Really positive responses and progress was evident throughout!
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Effective dual-coding has been useful with Y11 revision, but also for a multitude of starters and 'Connect' tasks throughout the academic year 🧠
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Really pleased with how today's Literature assessment feedback went...A discussion, analysis of WCF, live marking with students capturing the process, and ready to apply it to their own responses 🤞
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Lots of scaffolding and recall this week, which has helped build a much better understanding of Gothic conventions 👻
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*Reinvents wheel*
Homophones ✅ Punctuation ✅ Comma Splicing ✅ Proper Nouns ✅ Apostrophes ✅ Sentence Construction ✅ More to follow ⌛️
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Really pleased with how Y8 have applied the process of academic reading to their study of poetry this week! Understanding, confidence, and pace have all progressed 🙌
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One of my favourite/most impactful lessons this year centred around conscious crafting for LP1, Q5. All resources are available here if you wish to give it a go! ⬇️
Evaluating our Q5 responses today using our 'Crafting Checklist' ✅ So pleased with the progress this week 🎯 Ofsted looked intrigued in the whole process too 🤷♂️😂
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Pre-reading exposure to high-tier vocabulary, followed by an academic reading of a fantastic article exploring why we read dystopian fiction. A superb effort for our first lesson back 👏⚠️
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Decided to use the same lesson with Year 10 today after the success of this with Year 11. However, introduced a scaffolding sheet to get our foundation in place before building our ideas!
With a thought process margin down the left to precisely capture the journey, and a modelled response at the top, we explored LP1 Q3 through an extract from 'Jaws' today🦈Clear progress today with this method of scaffolding🙌
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Analysing structure to identify some of the more subtle choices made by the writer 🔍After re-framing the question and a productive class discussion, the understanding was much stronger 💪
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Productive session exploring 'Remains' and looking at how to build analytical responses! Such a treasure chest for language analysis and so incredibly poignant too ✍️
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Absoloutely loving teaching poetry this year. Making connections (like this 8 minutes with a war photographer video) really helps engage all students and developed a greater appreciation for the big ideas in the poems! 📸
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Reading intervention booklets used to be some of my favourite lessons, especially with our amazing librarian supporting these sessions at the start! Last December, they won an international ed. award for their use across a range of schools (🇦🇪🇸🇦🇶🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸 apparently!) 🙌
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Reading Routes is up and running! 🚇 A diverse journey across KS3 to develop meaningful reading for pleasure, develop cultural capital, and make explicit links to the curriculum content! Author postcards, recommend texts, and rationale too! Reading is everyone's responsibility 🙌
This was a massive job, but I am really pleased with the outcome! A recommended reading route throughout KS3 related to the curriculum, offering regular opportunities to read around the genres we study! 🚆
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Final term before I have completed my first year as Head of Year at my new school 🤯
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I've spent the weekend developing on this and tweaking some supporting material, CPD and guides to complement the tracking of vocabulary across the curriculum ⬇️
Thanks for all the kind words and messages ☺️
By treating high-tier vocabulary as the thread between each SOL, students are able to develop confidence with the use of this vocabulary as they complete their GCSE studies in KS4.
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Decided to mix up our creative writing session and be inspired by the video game/HBO series 'The Last of Us'.🧟♂️Now to watch the next episode...
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Whole-class feedback each week on our extended writing allows for much more detail/frequency and provides a clear image of progress across the term 🙌
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Really loved seeing the results of the crafting border today! The AO5 and AO6 were so much stronger by the end of today's lesson 🙏🫡
Using our 'Crafting Borders' has been a lot of fun and the quality increase has been 🤯 so far! Looking forward to scaling down to KS3 too! 💭
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Today, we widened our margins to document the thought process and built a response on 'Exposure' 🪖 After annotating and evaluating, our 'We Do' was much stronger as a result 🙌
To keep up the momentum, I decided to go for a resource booklet to revise 'Exposure' 💨🪖 Pre-reading, contextual exploration, analysing the crunched poem for patterns, developing our annotations, and concluding with a written response! ✅ Another point for booklets ➕1️⃣
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Had a really top lesson today academically reading Chapter 2 of 'Animal Farm' and utilsing my 'Exploding Evidence' scaffolding sheet to unpick the quotations! 🐖
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I always find evaluating creative writing a fundamental starting point of creative writing/crafting (especially LP1 Q5). 🙏
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Really pleased with how this has worked with KS4, so decided to polish it up and try it with some of my other groups too 💣
After some really useful AQA CPD, I decided a different method of quote explosion based on the feedback from the last assessment. The quality of the comments today was much stronger as a result 🙌
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Decided to try something different for our LP1 'Sound of Thunder' mock feedback, and created a question by question sequence booklet! 🦖Whole-class feedback✅Pre-reading activities✅Model answers✅Specific AO Support✅D.I.R.T Activities✅Really excited to get started! 🙏
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Productive exploration of the allegorical meaning of 'Animal Farm' using the academic reading structure! 🐖
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8⃣ Steps to Raise Literacy Standards ⬇️
1⃣ Establish Vocabulary 📖
2⃣ Capture Tier 2/3 📸
3⃣ Incorporate Curriculum Connection 🎯
4⃣ Establish Links 🔗
5⃣ Recall! Recall! Recall! 🧠
6⃣ Explore Etymology 🌎
7⃣ Explore Together 🤝
8⃣ Celebrate 🎉
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Intellectual prep and answering the questions for the mock exam has been really useful in helping to design my feedback sequence skeleton and develop my understanding of this specific paper!🧠🔍
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🚨 RE-EVALUATING READING THIS SEPTEMBER! 🚨
After the great response last year, I've decided to collate an updated and upgraded bundle of 'All Things Reading' to ensure September is the fresh start for reading and literacy! If you are interested/want more info, drop me a DM! 📚
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Literacy coded marking to address high-frequency errors is a must have ❗For staff, peer-assessing or self-assessing, literacy should be a priority for everyone 🙏
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As we wait for the greenlight to return assessment material, I decided to try something a little different with Year 7 - crafting motivational letters to their future selves! Thoroughly enjoyed their enthusiasm and maturity, and something to enjoy in the future 🔮✉️
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Today was all about exploring the HOW and WHY 🤔 Exploring authorial intentions and unlocking deeper meaning 🔓
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Moving onto question four and planning a new strategy to develop the quality of our response, explicitly teaching the components of the response and using worked examples and models to support 🙌
Teaching LP1 through 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' after visiting is always really impactful. Sharing the stories and sights from the harrowing experience and you could hear a pin drop with the students! ⬇️
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To keep up the momentum, I decided to go for a resource booklet to revise 'Exposure' 💨🪖 Pre-reading, contextual exploration, analysing the crunched poem for patterns, developing our annotations, and concluding with a written response! ✅ Another point for booklets ➕1️⃣
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Feedback booklets are all ready to go for the LP1 -Mr. Fisher paper 🧑🏫 Really find taking our time with meaningful feedback and D.I.R.T tasks incredibly useful - a strategic dissection of the paper with targeted and bespoke tasks for each student - all in one place too! 💪
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Redesigned a LP1, Q5 lesson (Lang through Lit) this weekend and I'm massively pleased with how it has shaped up! Each time I have taught this, I popped some comments in the notes with what worked well/ needed tightening, which has been incredibly useful/nostalgic! 🙌⬇️
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Incredibly poignant pre-reading study of 'Poppies' using Private Ivar Rowbery's final letter to his Mother during the war 🪖 Building up contextual understanding, the key skill of analysis, and the speaker's emotion in the brilliant poem 🕊️
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Started our LP1 mock feedback today by fully dissecting the question and responding accordingly through developing ideas, modelled responses, and more quote explosion! 🙌
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Productive final lesson of the term exploring 'A Christmas Carol' 🙌🎶
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Over to Literature...Feedback booklet all ready to go exploring the presentation of Birling in 'An Inspector Calls' 🔍A key focus on the AOs and how to link them together/articulate like a scholar!🎯
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Academic reading developing our understanding of detective fiction as a genre in preparation for our cold-read of 'An Inspector Calls' next week 🕵️ Such a productive lesson! 💪
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Y7-11 assessments completed and marked ✅ Whole-class feedback and linked tasks all ready to go for the week ✅ Trying out some QR codes for videos, resources, and recommended tasks/revision at home 📱
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Made a list of all the content I wanted my Y10s to know by the end of the term for 'AIC' and created the topics/knowledge recall starters to match. Always a favourite to teach! 🕵️♂️
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