Back to School: Looking Ahead with Purpose

Back to School: Looking Ahead with Purpose

As the academic year begins, reflections on the teaching profession highlight its demanding nature and rewarding relationships. Completing a Master’s degree while managing personal challenges emphasized the importance of perseverance and team culture. Leadership focuses on empowering colleagues, fostering a supportive environment, and prioritizing balance to enhance student and staff wellbeing.

Top 5 Revision Strategies for Students: How to Study Smarter and Boost Exam Success

Top 5 Revision Strategies for Students: How to Study Smarter and Boost Exam Success

This content presents five innovative revision strategies to enhance study efficiency. It covers the Leitner question cards for spaced repetition, the importance of planning essays instead of writing full ones, interleaving topics, the Feynman Technique for simplification and understanding, and dual coding through active drawing for better memory recall.

Reading Recommendations: Ultimate Of Mice and Men Book Study List

Reading Recommendations: Ultimate Of Mice and Men Book Study List

Preparing for GCSE English Literature exams can be enhanced by utilizing study guides and revision resources focused on "Of Mice and Men." This reading list includes comprehensive summaries, character analyses, and practice questions from various guides, ensuring students master key themes and improve their exam performance.

Reading Recommendations: Ultimate Macbeth Study Book List

Whether you're preparing for your GCSE or A-Level English Literature exams, having the right study guides, critical analysis, and exam practice books can make all the difference. This curated reading list covers everything from easy-to-understand summaries to in-depth scholarly interpretations. Get ready to master key quotes, themes, characters, and Shakespearean context with these top resources—perfect [...]

The Giver

The Giver Lesson Bundle offers a comprehensive 4-week teaching resource for Lois Lowry's novel, enhancing students' understanding through detailed lessons, writing exemplars, thematic analysis, and a summative assessment. It includes engaging activities and printable resources, promoting participation and essential skills for middle, high school, and Key Stage 3 classrooms.

Beowulf: Introduction to PETER Analysis

Beowulf: Introduction to PETER Analysis

Exemplar paragraph of analysis based on the characterisation of Grendel in Beowulf with a breakdown of Point, Evidence, Technique (or Terminology), Effect and Refer Back. Useful for an introduction to analysis and support for Key Stage 3 students and part of a wider scheme of learning on Beowulf for Year 7. Subscriber Content Download Introduction [...]

A-Level English Language: Individual Variation Accent & Dialect Wider Reading

A-Level English Language: Individual Variation Accent & Dialect Wider Reading

Texts you may be interested in to explore further the concepts we are covering in class. Useful for stretching and challenging your understanding to a deeper level. Beal, J. C. (2010). An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (2012). English Accents and Dialects: An [...]

EXPLORERS OF BOYS MESSING ABOUT?: Analysis Breakdown

EXPLORERS OF BOYS MESSING ABOUT?: Analysis Breakdown

A breakdown of the non-fiction text from the Edexcel English Language Non-Fiction Anthology, 'Explorers or Boys Messing About? Either Way, the Taxpayer gets the Bill' . Exploring GAPS, title analysis and exemplar written analysis on the major techniques, purpose and tone throughout. Useful for supporting student revision and embedding sound understanding of linguistic features within [...]

A-Level English Language: Gender

A-Level English Language: Gender

Gender Revision Quizlet A-level English Language: Gender & Language Quizizz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJ8VNy-Zik Dominance Theory: Dominance Theories in Gender Difference Theory: Deborah Tannen: An Analysis of Gender Styles in Language Interaction The Work Women Do by Pamela Fishman The Gender Similarities Hypothesis by Janet Hyde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKz39NJYBqc Deficit Theory: In 1922, Otto Jespersen published the very first piece [...]