One year ago, I took a leap and started my own English tutoring business - From a single student to a thriving community of learners, I’ve been able to build something I’m incredibly proud of. #AspireTuition Here’s to year two! 🫶 https://t.co/ZvUSnTmLsw

🎄🚨 FREE RESOURCE ALERT 🚨🎄 A task to send home to encourage reading over the Christmas holidays. The children could bring it back completed to discuss the books that they have read. Available as a free download here: https://t.co/2BDFcIIifm

Grocery stores should have baskets in the middle of the store for those "I really overestimated how much I can carry" moments.

Dear parents, Most children do not read books anymore. If you get your child to read just ONE BOOK PER MONTH (canonical, classic) from age 10-18, they will be so far ahead of their peers by the time they reach college. Sincerely, A Teacher

The interior of the Livraria Lello, a bookstore in Porto, Portugal. It is widely considered one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Discovering the library as a child was one of the greatest joys of my life and I wouldn't be where I am today without the books I read there. I would like to say thank you to librarians for everything they do, both for reading and for their communities. #SupportYourLibrary

Winter in Central Park, New York

Happy birthday, Brad Pitt!❤️

If you're marking mocks or feeding forward to y10 language paper 1+2, these knowledge organisers make VERY efficient feed-forward tasks, with a ✨ quick highlight ✨ of their next move needed... https://t.co/wUcDwc5lnV #mocks #marking #english #aqalanguage

Fascinating to hear lessons learned from the new Ofsted. Lessons learned: ·      Consider carefully which groups you flag up to inspectors, as these (refuge, EAL) formed part of the case sampling.  ·      Impact is everything, from the phone call right through the inspection.  ·

"Grief just changes shape. It never goes away. And actually, losing a parent, it's like the North Star falls out of the sky, and you can never find it again." - Kate Winslet For every heart that is breaking tonight. 🕯️

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The practical takeaway: Students should USE the same language features in Paper 2 Q5 that they already use (often brilliantly ) in Paper 1 Q5. Examples can be found in my guide to English Language:

Something surprising about non-fiction language analysis in AQA English Language Paper 2 (and, by extension, its use in P2Q5) 🧵

on this day in 1775, marked the birth of jane austen. happy 250th birthday to the eternal literary icon!

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The Swarovski Christmas Tree in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has sent such lovely messages about Accidental Tourist! The response has been genuinely overwhelming and it honestly means so much. This was a very different experience for me and took me into completely unfamiliar territory, from

“You can’t handle the truth.” That courtroom explosion in A Few Good Men (1992) is iconic. Jack Nicholson went far bigger in rehearsal than expected, and Rob Reiner kept it, even adjusting Tom Cruise’s reactions to match the sudden intensity. https://t.co/FHxzgmaMru

🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen! Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775. 📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature and getting excited for our virtual birthday party!

Tom Hardy and his father reading bad "dad jokes" to each other and having the best time 😂 love this