English Teacher. Lead Practitioner T&L. English Language Team Leader. NPQLTD. Ambition visiting fellow. Mother of Dragons. MA Expert Teaching 22-24.
Joined April 2011
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19 Jun 2019
Just found out that a student I taught last year passed his language resit. Which means every student I’ve taken through GCSE has a GCSE pass at least in English. I could not be prouder #whatitsallabout
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Jun 13
There is a lot of excitement at the moment about using AI to personalise learning resources, but I am not convinced.
Yes, it is true many students are interested in Taylor Swift & Lionel Messi more than electricity, algebra or verbs.
That does not mean we can teach electricity, algebra and verbs through the medium of Swift & Messi.
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Jun 7
🚀 Join us for our @Steplab_co Hub Open Day.
A chance for school leaders and teachers to explore professional development, coaching and deliberate practice supported by Steplab.
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📅 Date: Wednesday 8 July ⏰ Time: 8:20am - 2:00pm 📍 Location: Woodham Academy, Newton Aycliffe
Register: events.steplab.co/hubs/Woodh…
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Jun 3
Train to teach at Woodham Academy 🏫🎓
Woodham Academy is seeking to train enthusiastic, energetic and committed professionals to become qualified teachers.
durhamscitt.co.uk/
gov.uk/apply-for-teacher-tra…
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Jun 2
Really looking forward to this!
Jun 2
@MrsBallAP IS GETTEN' THERSEN DOWN TO #rEDYshire
Why does so much CPD fail to translate into lasting classroom change?\n\nRachel Ball looks at the mechanisms behind professional development that genuinely sticks — including deliberate practice, accountability and cognitive load.
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May 25
What happens when two T&L minds (@MissCole279 and me) come together?
A great teaching framework 👀💡
✅ Principles
✅ Components
✅ Techniques
#TheLongdendaleLegacy
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May 10
Hours and hours of revision videos made, pages and pages of revision booklets and just under 100 hours of 1:1 tutoring so far this year. Just completed the first of my day before videos for year 11. Let’s do this!
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May 6
🎓 What does great PD look like in practice?
At Steplab Conference 2026, hear from school & trust leaders.
📚 Great PD | 🎓 Leading great PD (two of four strands)
📅 19 June | London
🎟️ steplab.co/conference
@SiobhanMered123, @mradamkohlbeck, @NLad84, @teacherhead, @PepsMccrea, @Josh_CPD, @Anyarthomas, @Barker_J, @sarah1daniel, @MrElliotHahn
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May 5
*** NEW POST ***
How do we build progression in writing into a geography curriculum?
I take a look at creating a framework to help pin down what this might look like.
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I’ve made a simple lost learning calculator.
The example below is sobering.
A pupil with 93% attendance across 4.8 years of secondary school has access to around 4,241 taught hours.
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Apr 30
A one-pager with bits that I want students to remember for the GCSE English Literature exams. It’s obviously stuff that needs to be expanded upon, but it should hopefully be useful as the basis for a final lesson or two before it all begins douglaswise.co.uk/blog/liter… 🖊️
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Our AQA GCSE English Language Intervention Lessons Whole Unit Pack contains all ten individual lessons, along with answer sheets, in one convenient download, allowing you to use each lesson however you see fit.
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Apr 27
EXCITING NEWS 🚨
Ready for your first senior leadership role?
Or a current senior leader seeking a fresh challenge?
If you’re passionate about Teaching & Learning and inclusion, we would love to hear from you.
We’re recruiting an Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion 😊
longdendalehighschool.org.uk…
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susansenglish.wordpress.com/… New blog about teaching PAPER 2 Language with resources. Hopefully, it's useful @Team_English1 @AQAEnglish
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Apr 3
Strategic Lead of Literacy, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham - Tes Jobs
There’s a job in my department and here are 5 reasons I think you should apply… tes.com/jobs/vacancy/strateg…
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Apr 3
5. The best until last - our students. They’re the most wonderful humans who genuinely appreciate the time and effort staff put in.
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