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‘Golden 5’ secondary literacy strategy
@researchED1
#rED23
A 3 year whole school strategy to create a culture of ‘We are ALL teachers of literacy’ - promoting love of reading and empowering teachers to effectively thread disciplinary literacy into their curric and practice 1/10
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Black History Month 2021.
An updated calendar.
A talented colleague also created a list of books, poems and popular culture that children can explore too 🖤
Link:
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Black History Month.
#BHM
#BlackHistoryMonth
A resource which encourages students/parents/carers to find out about 31 people.
A range of texts, poems and cultural ideas too.
Editable ppt to personalise is here:
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“Apologetic language needs to end now”
@ViviennePorritt
🙌🏼 my one to start using is “When can I expect an update?”
@WomenEdNE
@WomenEd
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Recovery Curriculum.
Language will be key for our children in September.
Map - where is your learning at?
Master - strengthen areas identified.
Move forward - ready for next learning.
Let’s do this! 💪
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Positive language is yet again key for 8th March.
No “catch up”, “lost learning”, “learning gaps”
A clear focus again on Map, Master, Move Forward.
Where are we at? Where do we need to go? Let’s get there
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My key remote learning takeaways from
@Doug_Lemov
‘s amazing Teaching in the Online Classroom + a few other linked strategies from greats such as
@teacherhead
for planning and delivery
#disthist
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Teaching reading in secondary schools.
“Learning to read -> read to learn”
Training document on teaching reading which is heavily based on summaries of
@AlexJQuigley
‘closing the reading gap’
Looking forward to launching it with staff and sharing it
@FSDConferences
next week!
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I’ve summarised the
@educationgovuk
guidance on Summer Schools 2021 into a 2 page summary. Hope it’s of use! It helped me to pin down the key aspects of it 😊
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Black History Month calendar
#BlackHistoryMonth
Black history should be woven throughout the curriculum. October is an opportunity to celebrate and raise the profile of Black History.
Each day, students can find out about a different person and explore texts/culture 1/3
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Disability History Month is Nov 22-Dec 22.
Whilst disability history should be woven into curriculums, I hope this resource will be useful to not only champion this month but also highlight where it can be further woven in.
Link:
1/3 🧵
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If anyone wants a copy of the exam wrapper :)
Mock Exam Wrapper edited and updated inspired by
@lamb_heart_tea
and her brilliant resources! 🤩
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Recovery Curriculum - formative assessment, teaching from the front and self assessment training. Lots of
@teacherhead
@ProfCoe
theory/strategies. Had a few requests to share the INSET I’ve prepared on this area so here it is ☺️:
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Went for a run... stopped to write a message in the
@historybookgrp
chat... ended up spotting and stopping a mugging, keeping the mugger restrained until the police arrived. Waiting to give a witness statement wearing my
@WomenEd
10% braver t shirt 💜
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Literacy 📜
A thread 🧵
Why literacy?
1/9
Research for strategy based on
@EducEndowFoundn
@TheWritingRevol
@AlexJQuigley
@marcrowland73
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It’s LGBTQ+ History Month in February. A calendar for students to research more about people from our past.
It’s not on the further resources list but I would also recommend the queer history chapter in ‘What is History, Now?’
@HelenhCarr
@sixteenthCgirl
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It’s with an utterly broken heart, that I’m sharing the news that my inspiring, beautiful, kind and hilarious Mum passed away yesterday.
She was an absolute force and brought so much joy to everyone’s lives.
I’m so proud to be her daughter and grateful for all of our memories
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For those of us who don’t start back until next Monday, last night and this morning has been filled with constant checks of my new school term dates to make sure that I’m not that person who got their dates wrong and didn’t turn up on their first day….
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Bite size summaries of the
@Ofstednews
subject review recommendations for History, Geog, Maths, Sci, MFL and Music available here:
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WHAT A DAY!
Married my lad and it was our best day 💕
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Women’s History Month.
A woman in history a day, smashes the patriarchy away! ✊💜🔨
A calendar resource for students of some women in history as well as some of our great historians
@HallieRubenhold
@MirandaKaufmann
Link:
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Disciplinary writing in History
1. Ensuring all colleagues have a shared understanding of what this means - no assumptions.
“Real schools need real decisions s drive by real people who all agree on what the word they use means. In reality. Everyday” (Sparkes,Thompson) 1/7
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Teaching and Learning - Pastoral - Data and Timetabling
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Tomorrow marks the start of
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
Whilst LGBTQ+ History should be woven throughout our curriculums, this month provides us with a further opportunity to find out more and reflect.
The theme this year is
#behindthelens
Link:
@histassoc
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been working hard to ensure that new curriculum is more accurate by ensuring it is representative-every module,every KS .To link to this(¬ solely as a one off),I’ve created a calendar for Black History Month to further link to this. If anyone wants it:
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If anyone would like my WW1 SoL that I discussed
@TMHistoryIcons
@SenecaLearn
#TMHI
#senecacpd
today, it’s ALL here so help yourself: also, I have a digging deeper folder with a template to please add to it!
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Key takeaways from
@Doug_Lemov
Teaching in the Online Classroom chapter on assessment in remote learning: implicit, lagged and real assessment. Absolutely gold dust for determining how you will be able to gauge pupil progress ✨
#disthist
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1/3HISTORY TEACHERS! I have uploaded all of my essay banks for Edexcel:Medicine,Cold War,Elizabeth and Germany. Some revision guides too and key fact sheets. It’s in the drive below but also tomorrow night I will be uploading all of the
@TMHistoryIcons
takeaways and tweeting RT
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How I approach GCSE summative assessment in my classroom.
1. Students are given 5mins to plan using RUSS. Time/scaffolding reduces over the year. Key is to build culture of planning before scaffolds are removed. Discussions about why: optimal anxiety,reading ques correctly 1/8
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Some words I really want to ban when talking about education during lockdown/return:
- catch up
- lost learning
- lost generation
- crisis
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Germany Paper 3 Interpretations Practice Booklet - revision ready ✨
- worked examples
- works well for live modelling
- scaffolding that is removed over time
- range of topics in the paper
- includes sources that can be used for Q3a practice
Link:
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Cold War Edexcel Topic 1 Booklet and support documents.After 2yrs of not teaching it,this was a beast!
Lessons focus on opps to:
- learn and use new terms in malleable ways and often
- retrieve prior cumulative knowledge
- model exam questions (I do, we do, you do) 1/4
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Edexcel Germany booklets, topics 1-4.
Threaded through out are:
- PLCs
- timelines
- literacy (frayer models, kernel sentences etc)
- exam prac qs
- opportunities for modelling, scaffolding, stretch
- formative assessment (incl. peer, self)
- retrieval incl cumulative
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We’ve gradually been introducing knowledge organisers in school so I’ve created this guide for a shared understanding. Thanks to
@MrsBallAP
for support! If you’re interested in how to use them effectively,
@MsQuinnHistory
has a great presentation on
@TMHistoryIcons
YT page ✌🏻
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Tweeting again my Germany revision strategy.
1. Revise
2. Check
3. Apply
4. Reflect (using RAG PLC).
Consistent format to ensure it works in lesson and homelearning for routine building
Link:
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IT’S HERE!
6 days until official publication date so we’ve got a sneak peak.
Definitely doing some big girl tears right now.
I left the teaching profession in 2011 due to workload and burnout, so this seemed like an unrealistic dream back then.1/3
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Super excited to say that I’m now a member of the Secondary Committee of the Historical Association! WAAAH! 🤩Thank you
@histassoc
for this amazing opportunity. I’m *ridiculously* excited to join the committee! NE teachers, let’s get involved! ✌🏻✨
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Such a significant moment in terms of smashing race and gender barriers. It’s one that’s so key to share with our students&to make sure that they are informed about her,especially in the wake of any potential opposition criticism. Link here:
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They are Centre Assessed Grades not Teacher Assessed Grades! This isn’t toe-mae-too / toe-mah-toe. It’s an extremely robust centre process based on lots of evidence, not a 10 minute Friday P6 diary task. Stop changing the phrasing to suit the narrative being pedalled
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See my pinned tweet for embedding a literacy strategy across a secondary curriculum that I talked about today
@researchED1
#rEd22
Thank you to
@senorcordero
for the lovely notes taken!
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Really excited to be creating these digging deeper sheets for our modules. Links to documentaries, blogs, films, and books (fiction and non-fiction). Great cross-curriculum links: English, Art and Music ✌🏻✨
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My incredible Mum is starting her chemo journey 2moro. I’ve packed her a chemo kit.
Her cancer isn’t curable; she is fighting to gain as much time as she can with us all. A selfless soul fighting to give us the greatest gift - time with her.
You’ve got this, Mum!&we’ve got you
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Preparing for Sept. PLC sheets for lesson 1 so they can map where their learning is at from last year/online learning and reflect on areas to strengthen/allows enables responsive teaching. Next lesson, continue to strengthen and move forward -
@MrAllsopHistory
features 😂
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Prep for tutor time whole class reading.
Supporting and empowering tutor to be knowledgeable about text is a key part of success&helps to limit workload.
Year 9 - Klara and the Sun.Teacher crib sheets with overview, KO, chapter overview with key words/questions, frayer models 1/3
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Officially published! ‘Being 10% Braver’ from
@WomenEd
- a chapter from me on daring to be different: leading when you’re an introvert!
A big thank you to
@ViviennePorritt
@keziah70
for raising up so many of us to write and share our experiences of being braver 1/2
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‘The Golden 5’
What might that look like across a curriculum.
We are ALL teachers of literacy and therefore what common strategies could be translated by subjects into their own discipline, to support the development of literacy.
My Golden Five, rooted in
@EducEndowFoundn
2/9
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When you’re a History teacher at the pub quiz and the History round is “not my period”
When you forgot to revise for your French oral and the teacher says bonjour
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Together with
@MrsBallAP
in Oxford ready for
@researchED1
tomorrow.
Perfect time to announce - ✨ WE MADE A BOOK✨
“What is History Teaching, Now?”
A research informed handbook, which we are SO proud of!
Massively indebted to this stellar line up of incredible authors1/4
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When it’s VE Day and you’re a history teacher-geek in school 💪✌🏻 had to invoke Rosie the Riveter for our activities today
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It is with great sadness, that I am sharing the news that my sister passed away peacefully last week. Close family were with her as she left us.
Her love for her friends, family and dogs will always be remembered.
Mental health matters 🖤 1/2
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#DisabilityHistoryMonth
2022.
DH should be woven into our curriculums and alongside this, DHM is an opportunity to raise awareness of the experiences, achievements and challenges faced disabled people from our past.
A calendar for 16Nov-16Dec with suggestions for Young Adults
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Always love seeing these completed target note essay plans 😍
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Calendar for Women’s History Month here:
2. Calendar of key people to find out more about, alongside digging deeper resources such as books and film. Primary and secondary versions
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Always love this activity for causation! Hexagons for the win when it comes to linking!
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Finishing the term on a high work a half marathon to the coast and this lovely news - Very proud to say I’ve just been offered the role of an Evidence Lead in Education! 🥳 So very excited to work with the team. Yay!
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Making me have that Friday teacher pride feeling ✨ amazing multi-causal essay plans by this talented students!
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6th Form Independent Learners.
A sequence of lessons to develop:
1. Organising IL
2. Strategic reading
3. Strategic note taking
4. Effective graphic organiser use
Ft. Lots of
@Inner_Drive
goodness
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So incredibly honoured to be a part of the history community. 763 teachers attended live today (and our YT means others can catch up at times that are good for them💜) The history community is committed, collaborative, supportive and just down right awesome! Take a bow! 🖤
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If anyone would like this WW1 SoL - diversity blended throughout with individual narratives maintained incl local, BAME and women
@MrBajkowski
This is how I approached my WW1 SoL - blended approach to women and BAME to ensure that this is a blended, not bolt on approach, maintaining individual stories meanwhile. If anyone wants access to it, let me know
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I’ve created an extended bridging project for Yr11 going into 6th Form on Russia 1881-1917 if anyone wants it, let me know ✌🏻
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Elizabeth Topic 2 booklet that I’m using to teach
@PearsonHistory
Retrieval throughout.
Model answers and exam practice.
Link:
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Tips to reduce
#covid
ー19uk worry and also if you need to
#SelfIsolation
Not a perfect list,but making it helped me feel proactive and better. RT if you find it useful to
#coronavirus
you can do this 💓
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Edexcel Germany. Here we go!
1. Revision booklet. Used as hwk to consolidate learning as course runs - note making, self quiz, practice 12 mark. Support in built to be removed over time. Can be used as interleaved revision homework when onto a new topic 1/4
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New school, new job, new challenge.
After 9 years, I’m moving onto a new challenge as an Assistant Principal T&L in a EYFS-Yr13 setting.
Change is scary, but it feels right for me at this point as it was an incredible opportunity that was too good to not go for. 1/6
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Heartbroken and feeling emptier than I can ever describe; but so overwhelmingly grateful that I have so many wonderful memories of her to bring comfort.
She inspired me, made me laugh endlessly (often not purposefully) and she brought light to my life.
Saying goodbye, for now
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Thanks to *amazing practice* within the history community,I’ve created a Yr9 hwk booklet using best practice/resources from many sources:
@JLevittHistory
@kenradical
@SPBeale
@Jmosley_history
@SnelsonH
@mrwbw
@VersusHistory
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Classroom screen is GENIUS! You can create a lovely landing pad with your lesson on with random name generators for cold calling,import quizzes and retrieval activities, drop knowledge organisers on it and embed recorded lessons/YouTube clips. Be still my beating teacher heart 💓
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Hands up,until March I was a newbie to blended learning.
It’s a new step for many of us.
#blendedlearning
learning - a shared understanding. What, why, how, consistency and training (some excerpts from a booklet)
@ICTEvangelist
digital guide is useful for creating strategy
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INSET today focused on two of these key strands:
- disciplinary literary
- assessment and feedback (A&F)
Our A&F session focused on revisiting what we know about memory and learning (including poor proxies), drawing upon research from
@teacherhead
@ProfCoe
@PepsMccrea
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Teachers: *delivers lesson to students on effective evidence led revision strategies, including explaining caution with highlighters as a tool and why*
Students two seconds later:
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The template is in the GoogleDrive (now working!) so let’s all collaborate and add lots of lovely Digging Deeper resources ✨✌🏻✨
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Edexcel Elizabeth Resources.
Topic 1 booklet.
- PLC
- Retrieval embedded throughout
- Literacy (Frayer model, reading)
- Modelling
- Range of exam q practice
1/4
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My heart is full.
Shortlisted for a Trust award nominated for by the students. Reading this comment by one of them has made me do lots of ugly crying.
I’m ridiculously lucky to teach these students
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So, “new term” vibes are a real thing for Monday so that means new stationary, right? 👀asking for a friend..... who is currently on paperchase website
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Women’s rights in the c20-21st in Britain.
Link to my presentation
@histassoc
#histconf23
ft
@FernRiddell
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Officially a Chartered Teacher of History
@histassoc
A really useful and reflective process that’s made me really consider how I use all the fantastic CPD I’ve accessed to drive improvement.
I think this calls for a celebrate!
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Link to the booklet below. I’ll be working on topic 2-3 this month.
Link:
Cold War Edexcel Topic 1 Booklet and support documents.After 2yrs of not teaching it,this was a beast!
Lessons focus on opps to:
- learn and use new terms in malleable ways and often
- retrieve prior cumulative knowledge
- model exam questions (I do, we do, you do) 1/4
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A simple activity that encourages students to not only summarise, but prioritise and link factors - they see that they’re not separate problems but all interwoven in a complex web.
Loved the powerful discussion around the room about biggest problem and how it relates to others
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Y10 Study/Revision booklet&series of 5 lessons.Wider opening to Y10 in the future-study skills sessions as part of this to empower them to self-study/revise effectively when at home/future learning.Focus on:self quiz,flash cards,Cornell,graphic organisers.
#English
‘Much Ado’ 1/2
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What an *amazing* INSET day delivered by
@teacherhead
, and hosted by the very kind
@Framheadteacher
(who invited colleagues like me from other schools to be a part of it, how great is that??) Fantastic and practical strategies with firm reasoning behind them. Perfect 👌🏽✨
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Following on from positive language doc,PLC (Personalised Learning Checklist)with retrieval will help map.
Map:retrieve&reflect.pupil voice for future online learning.Use KOs to create knowledge points for top3areas.
HWK:revise
Master:Retrieve next lesson,plan to move forward 💪
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It’s Trans Awareness Week 13-19th Nov.
I’ve created this for teachers to help raise awareness of the week and identify opportunities for threading trans history and presence into curriculums.
Link:
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PUBLICATION DAY!
Such an exciting and positive day!
A big thank you to
@MrsBallAP
who was the most amazing person to work with on this project. Multiple, multiple voice notes, WhatsApp messages and Google meets 😂
You truly are a GOAT and an amazing pal and peer! 1/6
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Happy unwedding day 💓 today would have been our wedding day.
Thanks to thoughtful pals, the past few days have been filled full of lovely well wishes and thoughtful acts of kindness.
I even put on a dress for the first time in 5 months for our meal 😂
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Yessssssss Yr7! End of Yr exam revision ✌🏻stunning effort, revision of lesson content and further independent research
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GCSE Germany revision workbook + revision resources.
Format is: revise, check, apply, reflect.
Metacognition + retrieval.
Hoping it’ll be a useful homework tool for revisiting this paper and can check in during starters of lessons.
Scaffolding of q2 to support LPA✨1/2
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KS1-5 Curriculum Continuity - History.
I’m working with
@_MrsPiper
Primary SL for History on our curriculum.
We’ve mapped content as a progression model. The same for historical concepts (pic1)
Here’s what we’ve done with Roman Britain Yr4 LKS2.. 1/9
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Getting excited to present at
@rEdDeutschland
on Literacy!
‘Golden 5’ literacy strategy and ‘Read Right’ ft research from
@EducEndowFoundn
@AlexJQuigley
@marcrowland73
#researchEd
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SO VERY EXCITED FOR TODAY!As a major history teacher geek,getting to present in
@histassoc
conference is UNREAL!I have my brew to hand&my writing pad for discussions ready.massive thank u to the HA &
@MrBajkowski
for making this a reality✨ &to
@TMHistoryIcons
for their support
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Fight for Rights in Modern Britain
Amazing to be involved in this project and looking forward to the different narratives we’ve covered making their way into classrooms.
Riot Girrrls making their way into a textbook 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@OUPSecondary
@WilkesHistory
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Africa pre-1600 GoogleDrive. If you’re creating resources on this period, if you can put your resources/lessons into the shared drive then many more will be able to use them.
@danlyndon
@nickdennis
:
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This is my kinda marking!high impact,low workload.Assessment with ‘stop clock’ moments - encouraging them to pause to self assess/reflect in exams.After,self assess & improve answer BEFORE giving them feedback sheet to WWW/EBI themselves.THEN I mark it/review their self assess✨
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@MrBajkowski
This is how I approached my WW1 SoL - blended approach to women and BAME to ensure that this is a blended, not bolt on approach, maintaining individual stories meanwhile. If anyone wants access to it, let me know
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