She/her. HoF MFL. Have been ITT and ECT mentor. Keen amateur singer. All views my own and even they may change! #EPI #mfltwitterati 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹
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25 Jun 2025
I would have used to think this because I didn't "get" how to be a form tutor or what the point of it was. Second form around and it's probably one of my favourite roles and in many cases very important too. It's a daily privilege to be a tutor.
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19 May 2025
This is so important. Reading to your child is an interactive, responsive process: pointing out key words, spellings, images and deeper meaning. Also the sound of a parent's voice, their enthusiasm, their dedication, their passion for narrative and the written word means absolutely everything.
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16 May 2025
2/2 when talking about our pupils & community. I think some will be mortified to be spoken about in those terms & for many, it simply is not true. Intentions, of course, are good, but we can support without stereotyping & reinforcing assumptions about our communities
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Miss W retweeted
16 May 2025
Another narrative which keeps emerging is the idea every pupil who is PP has a chaotic homelife with no space to revise, no support from family & will not be fed. While this is true for some & we want to scoop them up, I think we need to be cautious about pushing this view 1/2
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Miss W retweeted
13 Apr 2025
NEW post: How do we know if we're any good? (3 min read)
Link in next tweet...
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10 Apr 2025
I may or may not have presented stats from this to my tutor group alongside chatting about the importance of v high attendance at the end of last term - they wanted proof.
Your wish, my command.
10 Apr 2025
This study uses recent data to look at how similar pupils with different attendance rates perform, isolating the impact of attendance on the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes at each key stage. #edutwitter gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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8 Apr 2025
I go all surrogate-form tutor on mine and say aim for 6 hours, long breaks outside. I give advice on how to limit distractions. Not even an hour per GCSE. The amount students need to do (even if just polishing off) requires this to do their very best, in my ever humble opinion.
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8 Apr 2025
I take the mental health aspect seriously and lay on thick the importance of breaks and not working with distractions so they feel good about themselves. Some take me up, some don't, but for those who want to study long term, it's good practice for independence of future studies.
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7 Apr 2025
RT @adamboxer1: You could be the best at verbal questioning IN THE WORLD and you still aren't getting as many students thinking as much as…
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7 Apr 2025
RT @adamboxer1: I've been watching lesson footage today, especially around miniwhiteboard usage. A teacher asks half a dozen questions on M…
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6 Apr 2025
Has anyone done any of the Chartered College of teaching qualifications?
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1 Apr 2025
Fab opportunity to join a vibrant and forward thinking team in Cottenham (just north of Cambridge):
Spanish to KS4 is essential.
We welcome applications from new and experienced colleagues alike.
#mfltwitterati #edujobs
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12 Feb 2025
Louder for the people at the back!
People working with trainees/ECTs/any teachers PLEASE explain to them how grade boundaries work.
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9 Feb 2025
AQA new GCSE mark scheme is contradictory. Defines errors in verb formations as major and then in the exemplar marking, defines some verb errors as major and some as minor. The increase in marks across where it's one mark per band is also v challenging to apply in practice!🤯🤯
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9 Feb 2025
Defines 'lapses in clarity' quite clearly, but again in their exemplars, seems to ignore almost constant lapses in clarity. A mystery. The exemplars jump from pretty awful writing getting a decent mark to full mark exemplars written as a native speaker would. Must do better AQA.
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