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Reflecting in the holidays
The holidays in school are often criticised as being too long. There are many reasons behind this - often political rather than practical. Personally, I would appreciate shorter, more intense term times. Still, in lieu of being able to do anything about that, I use...
Year 10 – End of Year Questionnaire
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Year 9 – End of Year Questionnaire
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Year 8 – End of Year Questionnaire
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End of Year Questionnaire Year 7
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Using APP
One of my 10 minute tasks today is to replace one of our assessments in Year 8 (the reading of The Lady of Shalott by Lord Tennyson) with something else. Previously we were teaching PEE using the LoS. I found that the previous module (reading a class novel, such as...
Teaching Research Skills
There is often (righteous) argument raging in schools across the world about what should be taught to students - often more by those who aren't at the chalk face. Some excellent (and satirical) blogs question the idea of learning 'skills' and suggest that there was a...
Using Total War in the classroom (history/English collaboration)
I have always been a bit of a war buff, and a fan of now-defunct series like Time Commander that required several people to refight battles of the classical era. I think that it would have been, at the last, something to inspire creative writing rather than an...
Cultural Capital
In relation to the conflict cluster of AQA GCSE poetry, this is a great video on the purpose of war, and perhaps a way into the poem: ofcoursegodamericai Recommended by a student.
Zen Questions
Another to-do-lister that didn't make if off the shelf: here is a story with some questions written by one of my students. They have since begun to solicit writing from writers - their intellectual confidence (and humility) is impressive. As I might have blogged...