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Guest Post – An English Literature Workshop with Myself, Age 14

Jul 22, 2019

Today’s post is an Oxbridge student’s reflection on what she would say to her...

Jun 9, 2019

Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my...

Jun 9, 2019

English teaching’s essential purpose in our politicised times is to make students culturally...

Jun 5, 2019

The Vegetarian is a dark book that has sat with me for a few weeks now. Conventionally about the...

Jun 4, 2019

In True Blood is another dark read, distinctly American and impressively literary. It is a text...

May 19, 2019

A student that I taught at the beginning of my international career spoke profoundly well at a...

May 18, 2019

This is a young adult story about kindness and identity. Its story can instigate useful...

Oct 12, 2018

Over the past five years or so I have been increasingly struck by the need to judge learning by...

Sep 14, 2018

This year I have taken on the running of our KS5 literature specification. It has been an...

Sep 4, 2018

This summer I was promoted to Head of KS5 Literature, leading a team of six people. I enjoyed the...