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26 Jul 2022
10 things I’ve learnt from examiner marking:
1. Word class adds nothing to student analysis and rarely shows a deeper understanding of authorial intent
2. Context should be taught in terms of themes and not just tagged on to the beginning of SOW as students then struggle to apply
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21 Jun 2025
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‘Reading every day matters’
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22 Jun 2025
Marking again this year and the increase in students trying to use critical theory in their answer is astounding.
Why are students being taught to apply Freud’s ID to Macbeth, Scrooge and Frankenstein?
Do you teach this? If so, why?
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8 Jun 2025
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26 Jul 2022
10 things I’ve learnt from examiner marking:
1. Word class adds nothing to student analysis and rarely shows a deeper understanding of authorial intent
2. Context should be taught in terms of themes and not just tagged on to the beginning of SOW as students then struggle to apply
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13 Feb 2024
As someone with exam anxiety, this would be detrimental to my success. Timed, close book exams test your memory not how well you know or can apply knowledge.
13 Feb 2024
Bring back traditional exams. Three hours; four essays; closed book. You, your pen, and your mind staring the examiner down. I don't accept the ridiculous argument that "in real life you can look things up". In real life you'd look like an idiot if you looked basic things up.
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3 Feb 2024
Potentially shows how out of touch exam boards are. Especially when Q4/5 is about feelings of going abroad. Lots of students sitting the exam will never have left the country or potentially even their postcode
3 Feb 2024
Me with my class writing out all the language paper 2 past topics:
⛴️ Boats
🏔️ Mountains
🚂 Trains
🚲 Bikes
“They love a bit of travel don’t they”
*starts thinking about reading lots of travel descriptions in the hope I support my kids who never travel*
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20 Jan 2024
Continuously linking people to this brilliant article helping students and teachers explore what a text DOES. Teaching these critical verbs to help students unpick a text has supported learners to understand the big ideas proposed
Credit: @__codexterous
codexterous.home.blog/2021/0…
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20 Jan 2024
As we gear towards the GCSE exam period, here are my tips for teachers with regards to English: tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
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20 Jan 2024
Anthology poetry is my favourite to teach as I just love hearing how students connect the poems. Each time I teach it, they make new connections and explore the poems even deeper than before. Definitely my favourite.
Here’s my updated revision guide with student annotations!
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20 Jan 2024
As long as people are doing their job, who cares?
19 Jan 2024
As a leader, does it matter what time our teachers arrive at or leave our school?
As long that they do a good job.
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13 Jan 2024
Unsure if universal, but since WFH has become normalised, trying to find work experience placements has become so challenging. 2 of the children I work with said their parents both WFH so can’t do it with them/their company -wonder if this is the end of WEX?
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8 Jan 2024
This message that the world is silent could not be more false.
We know what’s happening. We’re protesting, boycotting, donating, funding. Everything every day people can do. To say we’re silent… disappointing
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27 Dec 2023
Why are you comparing a doctor to a minimum wage worker? I need no qualifications to be a waitress, but years of degrees to teach, practice medicine, be a lawyer & the wage should reflect this otherwise, no one is going to do these jobs- hence the retention crisis in these fields
26 Dec 2023
Minimum wage is £10.42. So £15.53 is just short of 50% more than that. Minimum wage workers put in the same hours, the same effort. They have to support families. Their services are almost always necessary. The lower the pay, the more essential the job. What makes you special?
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16 Dec 2023
This was my last term at my current school. Terrified to leave, but excited for my next adventure.
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15 Dec 2023
How England lost its teachers.
Recruitment and retention in education are at critically low levels – but why has this happened and how can it be turned around?
@matilda__martin’s in-depth investigation is a must-read this morning
tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
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12 Dec 2023
I genuinely cannot process this. How do you watch someone be r**ed and you do nothing?!?
Man who raped woman in front of other passengers on London Underground jailed
Read more🔗
news.sky.com/story/man-who-r…
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11 Dec 2023
18 year olds? How do you expect these people to have the advanced subject knowledge required when the sat their GCSEs two years ago? With a degree, teachers develop their knowledge and widen their understanding of critical thinking. Fresh out of A-Levels is not right.
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1 Dec 2023
It’s here! Day 1 of #Eduadvent 2023.A fantastic giveaway every day throughout advent. Today’s prize comes from @BluecowE and it’s a beautiful light up village from M&S inc. chocs,Shortbread and more! To enter just REPOST and LIKE the tweet and I’ll randomly draw a winner later!
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2 Dec 2023
🚨 CHRISTMAS BOOKS GIVEAWAY 🚨
Fancy some edu-reading for Xmas? It is advent time, so I’ve decided to give away full ‘Closing the Gap’ collections (all 3 books) to ***2*** prize winners.
Simply RETWEET this post to enter.
[I’ll be drawing the two winners on 8th December]
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