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Head of English | Lover of Linguistics, tea, tennis, and my dressing gown | Previously in Pastoral Year7 and KS4 | NPQML |
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Got this unbelievable email off a Year11 last night and only just seen it now. How incredibly selfless and wonderful are young people to give ME the pep talk the night before THEIR results. Definitely not crying...😭
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Very tall lad spots me in Sainsbury’s and proudly shows me his lanyard. Says I was his TA a long time ago and now he is a TA in a local school. I swear after a long day moments like that just are planted there to pick you up 🥰
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About an hour after my post about Verona, I GOT ENGAGED overlooking it!!!! Best day of my life 💍😭❤️
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Head of English caught me smelling the delivery box of fresh books today. 😂 Weird? No, I’m not ashamed one bit.
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I marked for AQA Language Paper 2 this year 🚂 Here’s some takeaways I took that I’ll be sharing with the English dept, so why not share with you all 🪡🧵
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Women in Shakespeare unit for KS3 (Year 9). A new addition to Year 9 that I thoroughly enjoyed making. Yes, it doesn't cover every possible amazing female character but I hope that students enjoy it, as much as my class did.
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Coming downstairs to 30 reasons why he loves me (including my love for Shakespeare as an English teacher) finished with a surprise of a Seville trip is just the best way to enter the 30s 😭💗
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Simple idea for KS3 where I get students to simplify my model answer down to a max of 5 words then these words become the bingo words for their own writing. Helps them generate ideas and confidence.
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Sorry this took so long; the madness of this half term delayed it. Here's the dropbox with slides from my NPQML project to close the vocab gap. We use them as starter activities to "play around" with words. These slides are my baby- enjoy!
#vocabulary
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Have recorded lessons today with no make up on. I know that’s not groundbreaking, but I’ve always felt conflicted between being too nervous to teach bare faced, and being desperate to normalise it for the young girls at my all-girls school. Next step is to do this in work now 🤞🏻
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Have had to delete this before but for people who asked for the resource who were you again 🙈 loved teaching tier 3 words in ‘London’ today 🙌🏻
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I’m doing it and NEVER thought I would succumb. However, after a lot of reading about it, I’ve made my first whole class feedback sheet and I think I’m doing ok. Trying to limit my pen to touch paper only twice if necessary.
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Open Evening’s English gothic room was a hit. Get a game of scrabble going and everyone gets competitive.
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I’m going to be the Head of Year7 soon and would love to hear ANY advice or be in touch with any great blogs on transition. I’ve been in pastoral for KS4 so far, so this is an exciting and big change! Hello to any Head of Year7s 👋🏻
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Language Paper 2: following my 🧵 there were some requests for this AO6 grid, that AQA gives examiners to use against Q5 marking. Could be made more student friendly; will get to that!
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I’m in an English teacher utopia here… marking in a café called ‘Bookbinder’ before I go to see Ralph Fiennes play Macbeth. What a Tuesday evening.
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In the process of making a ‘Women in Shakespeare’s Plays’ unit for Year 9. Will share when it’s all done and trialled. Next week is Beatrice’s time to shine 💪🏼🚺
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Have created a small and not at all jazzy English Lang pack for Year 11 to complete on their own paper over February 1/2 term. It has personal comments for my class so make sure to edit but it could be useful for your own classes
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Help yourselves to this 'A Christmas Carol' quiz that I used for Year 10 last summer. Time to spread some DropBox joy as Dickens would have hoped us all to do at this time of year!
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Can’t help but switch on that cliché English teacher mode where we over-analyse the connotations of colours.
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For the third consecutive summer, I vow to go the gym and cook well when I return to teacher life. And for the third consecutive year, September howls in my face. HOW does anyone go the gym and eat well as a teacher? 🤷🏼♀️
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I’m marking Year7 books and found this spectacular obsession with collecting “super words” at the back of their book. Can see them creeping into her analysis too. WORDS🦸🏼♀️👏🏻ARE🦸🏼♀️🙌🏻EMPOWERING🦸🏼♀️⭐️
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New ACC thing I learnt today: Dickens had a brother called Frederick who fell into debt, used Dickens’ name for credit and Charles eventually cut him off. Is Fred in ACC a deliberate antithesis? Is Scrooge’s redemption with Fred what Dickens had wanted for himself?
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Have I done enough lesson planning? No. Have I dedicated too much of my time to Friends since it came on Netflix? Yes.
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I have just started AIC with Year 10 and tomorrow we're looking at Sheila at the beginning of Act One. Help yourselves to a quotation retrieval resource (best printed on A3) and a ppt. Happy ever-so-near Friyay!
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Why is this job worth the stress? For moments like this when a student, who sits quietly in your lessons, picked up on my comment that I love daffodils yesterday; she handed me these teeny ones this morning as I passed her on the corridor. THAT right there is why it’s amazing.
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A student, who always reads 2 books a week and relentlessly encourages me to read more, has made sure to check I am reading. She’s emailed to tell me her book recommendations and share she’s currently reading. She needs to be an English teacher. God I miss work ❤️
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Prep for end of Year Paper 1 Year 8 using 'Room' and 'Mockingjay' extracts.
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December mock marking can be exhausting. This Q5 opening, that led into a story about a handler and their dog who recovered a man in war, was just wonderful. The student works so hard that I had to tell them… then their kindness just was 🥹
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Last week I went the gym every night. This week: it’s Monday,I’ve come home after meetings, got in mismatching pyjamas AND I’m eating a bag of doritos for tea 👍🏼
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Mini Year 10 AIC Revision Pack. Includes two tasks linked to Mr Bruff videos.
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Year 8 sent in their work this week: persuasive writing leaflets to help ‘Save our Zoo’
@chesterzoo
The classes were thrilled to learn that our local Zoo can re-open now: it could have been their doing and maybe there’s some future marketers here...🦁🐘🦒🦧💚
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Perfect for a GCSE unseen poem for my Year 11 girls 😍 Actually enjoying lesson planning when this tackles a very relatable issue. Thanks
@charlycox1
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Excited to try a new golden nugget of exam writing technique after reading
@__codexterous
’ blog! Love when Twitter spruces up your teaching and excites me to plan something new 👏🏻
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Arrived in Fair Verona and given an upgrade with this view. Excuse me whilst I go collapse in excitement!!🇮🇹🥂
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It is kindness and generosity like this that makes teacher twitter a wonderful place 👏🏻
*NEW* for AQA Lang & Lit: Mock Exam Trackers for each exam paper, with R A G cell formatting for easy Q level analysis to inform planning / interventions by class or by cohort.
Columns using formulae are ‘locked’ to prevent corruption of your data!
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Marking mocks strips me of all confidence in my teaching. I’ve thrown all I can to help but it’s not sticking. I hate how November can make you feel as teacher because the weight of their passes and futures press firmer on your shoulders 😩
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The most tenuous link, but I want Year 11 to be more argumentative and critical for Q4. I bet none of them will know who Elle Woods is and I’ll be branded a millennial 😂
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Hands down the best card I’ve ever received from Year 11 before. Mercutio is an icon
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Back to work do’s and don’ts after a LONG break:
-Do✅
Run or swim 4x a week
Keep reading in the evenings
Get outside after work:don’t rush home to the laptop
-Don’t🆘
Work past 8pm
Avoid plans with friends because it’s a “school night”
Wait for half terms for all the fun!
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Typed out an ACC essay for Yr11 and I’m tired and full of sadness. Sadness that 16 year old me, who loved English, would have crumbled and been unable to produce essays of the calibre and detail expected of 15/16 year olds today. Having a “what are we doing to them?” moment.
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Lesson for Year 9 comparing the weather in Woman in Black with A Christmas Carol with a link to AQA Q2 English Lang Paper 2 skills. Enjoy the miserable fog in both!
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Last year I heard this song driving into work and the lyrics work so well with Inspector Calls. Can make students remember “pink and intimate” from the “rose-coloured glasses in this song. Fun starter activity to link to Birlings.
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Year 8 Christmas creative writing lesson where they imagine being the star on top of the Cheshire Oaks tree. Could be adapted to any tree. Some may say weird others may say creative 😂Just a way to avoid that film being put on!
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Yr7 Q3 English Language Structure Strip for Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter
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Here's a lesson for paired work where one partner does one side and the other, the other side to analyse a quotation together from 'London'. We have been looking at words like 'despotism', 'impuissant' and 'transient' to explore one key word per poem.
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I held back on all levels from screaming “deny thy father refuse thy name”. Reigned it in and tried to look a normal tourist 💕
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I watched a performance of A Christmas Carol today and then I got upset driving to the polling station. Dickens would be disgusted in the minimal change. The Cratchits are too alarmingly similar to too many families in 2019 in the UK. What is going on?
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Pass the parcel starter. Changes by Bowie on. Students find quotations from early Acts, discuss who it could be and how they haven't changed
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My trainee was watched today by me and her uni tutor. A child was sick. I slipped in her sick on the corridor. I was watched by Ofsted inspector lesson 6 for SIP, oh and delivered CPD to all staff straight after. If hell did Mondays then today was it 😂🤢
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Marking the Language mocks and I hate Hartop. His angular face and how he is sprawling awkwardly is just ruining my Christmas spirit.
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Screamed in glee when my HoD delivered this to my room this morning. I asked if we could get the 50 penguin classics for £50 so I could start a KS4 Classics Club and she immediately ordered them. I LOVE MY SCHOOL ❤️😍
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Frayer Model and Eytmology are my go to tools. Have seen a VAST improvement in Vocab this year 😍
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I have just written my FIRST blog. It's about simple approaches to explicit vocabulary teaching in my NPQML project. It may have appalling grammar but it reflects how excited I am to talk about vocabulary.
@HuntingEnglish
's course and book was the inspo!
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The BEST Monday ever. I have got my DREAM job after being so desperate for the chance: I’m a HEAD OF ENGLISH🎉🥂😭📚 thank you
@EdEllaD
for being so supportive and helpful with all my questions.
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Thank you to the goddess
@kirstreadss
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When Year 11s admit they made memes about my reaction to their mocks and it’s scarily accurate.
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I am over the moon to have been given a new role as an ITT Professional Mentor for my school!
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Half-Term treat? How about Becky at Twinkl doesn’t email me on a Sunday of the half term.
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Got to love etymology. I got Year7 obsessed with learning new words in lessons but I also want them to be finding them in their own reading. So I’m going to regularly share new words I find from my own reading at home, to try and model what they need to do too.
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Having a folder and visualiser with me in my bag is SO handy. Why wasn’t I doing this before? It helped the confidence in my literacy group a lot today abd Year 10 said I’m “cute” thinking I can be a student again...
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I read the book a year ago and the BBC iplayer series is INCREDIBLE. They got the casting spot on and the acting is sublime 👏🏻 Feel lost now I’ve finished it.
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Made a rough pass the parcel (done this in the past) where I play Bowie’s ‘changes’ and the pupils unwrap quotes and explain how the quote shows a lack of change now we’ve finished AIC. Be way more fitting for Christmas Carol 😂
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Been waiting a while for this... I’VE PASSED THE NPQML YAY🎉🎉🎉 The support from wonderful people on here, during the stressful lockdown write up, was fundamental to this. So relieved!
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There are worse things in the world right now but I’m gutted for Year 11. They gave revision their all and were incredible fundraising for prom. There is still some air of uncertainty for exams but BE PROUD of this year. Class of 2020, across the world you have been the best ❤️👏🏻
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Transitioning back to school was tough pastorally and curriculum wise. I’m exhausted. Year 10 made a snapchat group to organise getting me a card and an egg to give to me in the lesson. I had a cry because I don’t deserve this; it’s them that have been amazing. 🐣🥳
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@StephB0203
@missf_english
@tes
Do not listen to headlines; they always scaremonger in September. Teaching is amazing, hard work (like most professions) but oh my god it’s amazing! Promise you have nothing to fear 🍀🙌🏻
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To the genius people who tweeted about using Forms to set a 5-a-day at the start of a live lesson, thank you! Loved this immediate feedback and the way it had everyone focused and warmed up.
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Q5 AO5: students need to read model examples then decide if: it lacks argument (L1), no central argument (L2), identifiable argument (L3), coherent argument at all times (L4). The examiner does this before marking.
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@ScottPughsley
Mentoring a trainee teacher and in her final observation with a uni mentor attending, a student threw up on the front row. I tried to deescalate the situation taking the student out, when I slipped in said child’s sick and smacked the floor loudly. She still got her QTS though 😂
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Tuesday 29th December: gruelling circuits training and then lots of lesson making and preparati- Ah but reader, she didn’t do anything but be in a dressing gown glued to Bridgerton.
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Ready for the first book for Year 10 book club. Very excited! 📚💗
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1914 Christmas Truce descriptive writing lesson. Have done this lesson with KS3 and KS4 this week and the students really digged deep into it. Help yourselves if you have zero energy to make quizzes and are avoiding throwing Muppets Christmas Carol on!
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@GCSE_Macbeth
I’ve always read this as being that the conflict was as much to do with hate/anger, as it was love and loyalty to family honour, duty and masculinity.
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My mum has got a rescue dog today. She was left when her owner of 83 passed away a few weeks ago. Isn’t she just the saddest little dog 🥺 I cannot wait for how happy, groomed and loved she is going to be! “Glow up” pics of Tilly are pending.
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The best sight there is!!! I’ve actually enjoyed Language marking, but so glad to be free from reading about trains 🚂
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Always LOVE showcasing work. The power it has on the students when you do the “big reveal” of who it was and encourage applause is palpable. Even Year 11 can go red faced and laugh at my excitement, but the most powerful influence is themselves.
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After 6 months of painful tests and worrying, I have had an ALL CLEAR from my cervical biopsies 🎉 This has been my 2nd experience of this in 3 years. If you find yourself experiencing any symptoms or have an abnormal smear, please use
@JoTrust
for advice they helped me a lot!
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This counts as work if it's AO3 for Wordsworth's Prelude right? Holidaying heaven 😍
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Sorry, there were sharing restrictions on my gmail. This should work without permissions!
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"Palm to palm" Year 8 analyse language in Act 5 Scene 1. Students "changed palms" & built on their peers' analyses
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Not even a term in as English HoD and had Ofsted in and a ‘Deep Dive’. Done and dusted… ready to deep dive into bed tonight ✅
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A student is hiding a christmas carol quote every day for me to find in my classroom. I told the class how sad I am when I slip christmas carol quotes into my normal everyday speech. So she hides these to match each day. Monday’s one to match my mood 😂
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Q2 synthesis: ‘the pole vaulting principle’ of getting up the levels really is aided by vocabulary. Source A the train is ‘old’ vs ‘less modernised’ helps aid the mark straight away. Don’t just push vocab for Q5
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Since September I have used my slides to explore and get the students being creative with higher vocab. I paired this with bingo too yesterday but I’m elated to see vocab from A Christmas Carol moving into other texts. SPEND TIME ON VOCAB: IT WORKS 🎉🙌🏻
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Romeo and Juliet pasta in Verona. Could I BE anymore of an English teacher?
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I need ANYTHING for Year 11 to understand and engage with unseen poetry so the only route is to be that cringe, I use memes so therefore I’m down with the kids, teacher 🙌🏻😂
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This is nothing to do with teaching but today I had a procedure to remove high grade, pre-cancerous cells that were detected from a smear a few weeks ago. It saved my life and I am so thankful for the NHS. Please don’t be complacent about your smear test
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Trying to create starter activities for Maths and English to explore vocab through etymology and PiXL Think Hard activities. This is a mighty big NPQML project but I LOVE IT 🙌🏻
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Thought this might be a solid starter to introduce Q4 Paper 1 using traffic lights.
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Gifs, as well as 5-a-day, have become a good, albeit funny, revision starter for Year 11 📚
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Not ashamed that I cried in assembly watching one of my Year7 students speak about homelessness in the whole school speaking competition. She said “I urge you to read Stone Cold it motivated me to speak up after my English lessons” ❤️
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