Tweets from the English Dept relating to things of literary (and other) interest, latest news/updates AND the odd bit of fun (puns, poetry and pithiness)
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9 Jul 2019
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Why #reading is important
20 Minutes a day = 3600 minutes in a school year (IASY) = exposure to 1.8m words (top 10%)
5 mins a day = 900 mins IASY = exposure to 282,000 words
1 min a day = 180 mins IASY = exposure to 8000 words (bottom 10%)
fairhill.org/time-spent-read…
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Nice analogy
Jun 13
Feedback is like gardening. Water early practice that needs to grow and prune errors before misconceptions take root. Effective feedback isn't about judging performance—it's about directing deliberate practice & moving pupils closer to the learning goal.
enquiries@impact.wales
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SAHS English Dept retweeted
Jun 7
Pupils who know more words, also know more about words AND are able to think better.
Use these 7 strategies to explore unfamiliar vocabulary with your pupils and teach them more words!
Contact enquiries@impact.wales for professional learning that has an impact.
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Vocabulary @StAndrewsHS
May 15
4 ways to build pupils' schema for new vocabulary: link to prior knowledge, use in speech, use in writing, and revisit meaning in context.
We think with words—reading, speaking and writing shape who we are.
Find out more: impact.wales
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Q & A ✅
Jun 2
5 steps to better questioning:
• Focus on the learning
• Plan questions
• Model answers
• Engage everyone
• Adapt teaching
Rooted in research. Built for classrooms.
Better questions = better thinking.
enquiries@impact.wales
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SAHS English Dept retweeted
Jun 1
5 steps to effective instruction 🧠👇
Start with the big idea
Pre-teach what pupils need
Show them how
Deepen their thinking
Reduce support over time
Simple. Not easy.
Done well, this changes everything.
enquiries@impact.wales for more info about our professional learning.
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Excellent conceptualisation 👍🏻
May 10
How are you understanding progress for your learners? Use our research-informed strategy, midpoint monitoring, to break down pupils' progress towards their learning goal.
Perfect for CfW 💥✅
Contact us for bespoke professional learning that has impact enquiries@impact.wales
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Never complain when we ask you to write your ideas, your thoughts and/or your answers because we are literally helping you to achieve 🙌🏻
Handwriting is BETTER for learning than typing.
But we all knew that.
The challenge is, what do we do for pupils with SEND?
(Marano et al., 2025, p. 23) - featured in #GuideToLearning
mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/345#
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We know that everyone in the @StAndrewsHS community would like to congratulate our amazing team of public speakers (coached by B. Robb-Methven & C. Rodriguez) who participated with distinction in the Lord Lieutenant’s Competition today 🙌🏻 at Airdrie Town Hall
They did us proud
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SAHS English Dept retweeted
May 7
Perfectly timed moments
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This is an excellent idea - one I have used often and now I know it has sound foundations in research 🙌🏻✅
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May the presence of God be with the young people of @StAndrewsHS as they sit their #Higher #English
They head into this exam and all their others with our prayers 🙏🏻
May they remain calm and recall all they have learned ✅
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May the presence of God be with the young people of @StAndrewsHS as one group sit their #Nat5 and another sit their #AdvancedHigher #English
They head into these exams and all their others with our prayers 🙏🏻
May they remain calm and recall all they have learned ✅
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SAHS English Dept retweeted
10-Minute Argument Challenge!
In this activity, you will write a clear and convincing argumentative paragraph in just 10 minutes. Your goal is to take a given topic, form a strong claim, and support it with solid reasoning and evidence.
You must choose the prompt that matches your birthdate.
Link: briantolentino.com/10-minute…
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A very Happy Easter to the whole community of @StAndrewsHS may the Risen Lord shine His blessings upon you all 🙏🏻
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SAHS English Dept retweeted
Absolute bombshell. Pope Leo directly rebukes the Trump administration on live TV. He explicitly declares that God rejects the prayers of leaders who wage war, stating their hands are full of blood. A devastating moral condemnation of Washington's warmongering.
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ME: You MBE Books, what day is it today?
MBE Books: Why Sir, today it is the day you win a set of Dickens’ classic for your young people!
We are running a competition to give away a class set of 30 copies of A Christmas Carol to a school. It's easy to enter, just follow our page, like & share this post. You must work in a school to enter. The prize will be drawn on Tuesday 24th March. mbebooks.com
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Worth a read #vocabulary
This is a really insightful read into the analysis of words used by children in the BBC 500 Words stories ..
fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/…
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School children THINK that these AI apps / programs ARE going to get them through without the need to study 👀 I genuinely fear for the future if that is true!
Life lesson = do they work yourself and learn as you go and grow 🙏🏻
Plagiarism IS cheating
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Racism / Segregation is utterly devoid of any sense . . . prejudice/ discrimination are learned behaviours (usually from those closest to you - parents / friends) - time to stop believing the lies and open your eyes (whatever colour they are) to see the truth
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This is by far one of the best Anti-Fascist experiments done! I wonder what would happen if it was done now! 👇👇👇
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