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Head of English and excited about all things teaching and learning!

Kuala Lumpur City
Joined June 2009
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Over the last three years we have transformed our approach to assessment @FearnhillSchool . It began by recognising the symptoms of bad assessment. Here are some of the things we were getting all wrong...🧵
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Forgetting is inevitable. Use retrieval practice to protect against it. Like this 👇
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Best cpd for teaching ALevel Language? I’m really struggling 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Hi all - can anyone help me with a challenging short story for a Y7 reading group? Ideally, about 12 pages long. I just finished reading H.G Wells ‘The Magic Shop’ with them. @Team_English1 @englishlulu @FunkyPedagogy @neilbowen3
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New blog: five ways to introduce repetition for mastery (and avoid tedium!) medium.com/@awildsurmise/the…
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Amazing black out poetry to celebrate the power of words and reading
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Year 10 students are focussing on the GIS Skill- Ask Questions while researching the context of Macbeth. Students start reading the play this week and need two copies of the text: one clean and clear for exams and one for annotations. #GISlearning
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All Year 11 students are studying The Secret River and are expected to develop quote banks linked to the novel’s deeper implications. Students are working on this both independently and in groups.#GISlearning
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Year 11 Students had an assembly today on the importance of English- a core subject and ways to study for the exam- refresh, remember & apply.
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Yr 8 Dragons’ Den presentations - an authentic experience pitching to an advertising executive and demonstrating the GIS Skill of Communication.#GISlearning
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*New Post* What we are doing and where we need to be - my thinking out loud. May help @Team_English1 #teamenglish and anyone going through the process of looking at KS3. – at Oxford, England
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Sandcastle masterclass for first day of Camp #GISLearning
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This week during Camp Week, the English faculty is available for extra coursework support: lessons at lunch, the weekly support session after school Tuesday and 1:1 appointments. See your teacher for more details. #GISlearning
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Early morning impromptu performance in the park from some very talented @GISDrama students
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Some stiff competition for the Globe actors we are seeing later
Warm up task: Working on creating still frames - The Merchant Of Venice #GISLearning
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Out of interest @Team_English1, if this response continued like this, what would you give it? Jekyll and Hyde question on setting.
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Revision Guides for AQA A Level Language. Might be useful for pupils to revise with over the holidays @Team_English1 drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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Here is my complete Inspector Calls scheme with a focus on aiming for grades 7-9. Lots of challenging exemplars, discussion questions, contextual details and memory platforms etc. @Team_English1 docs.google.com/presentation…
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