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B-A* Creative Writing – Writing for Inference
Earlier this year my year 10 class were focussing the short story anthology 'Sunlight on the Grass' from the AQA syllabus. While the students were become more adept at analysing the inference in the stories (and in articulating the perception of a possible need for a...
Moving Image Review of Disney’s Dumbo – Controlled Assessment
Last week, as 100 students were out enjoying an adventurous tour of Spain with our fantastic/maverick music teacher, I decided to set my year 10 class another moving image review. Having already prepped the students some months ago for several creative writing tasks,...
Planning KS4 – Argue
Here are some further exemplar plans for writing to argue at KS4. I particularly like how they all contain the ingredients to plan the essay. There are a variety of ways to plan: listing bullet points; brainstorming and numbering; and to creating a for and against...
Paper 1 Section A – Exemplar Answers
There is a dearth of exemplar answers for Paper 1 Section A. In fact, throughout my university (and, to an extent, A-Level and GCSE) career, I rarely saw exemplar answers. I'd like to this this was largely due to the issues of tying students to a distinct style of...
Answering Paper 1 Section A
Reproduced below is a post I wrote this morning for Paper 1 Section A. I might attach some student answers, too. It is a formula I have found has worked very well for my classes; how do you teach yours? These are some of the principles by which I would teach the 'how'...
Pre-PGCE Advice
Reading a few threads on the TES, and thinking to my own future, have got me thinking again about what I did before I started the PGCE. So I’m writing this now to: a) Reflect on the things I found useful and b) Hopefully give a useful perspective for a few other...
Graphic Organisers
On Friday I attended an Early Leaders meeting, which was rather apt as I was one of the first ones to arrive. It was in the beautiful town of Pickering where I used to work. I appreciated the chance to reflect on a few of things that I am doing now, and the chance to...
Writing in class (using my website to write in front of the class)
Like I said earlier in my post yesterday, I wonder exactly how much writing I do in class, or rather how much writing I encourage my classes to do. Right now I am sitting in my classroom teaching a lesson. They say, "hello!" They are writing freely, one lad at the...
In the best interests of our students?
Recently I have been concerned about what in my teaching practice really is in the best interest of the students. While we support students the best we can with a firm hand, I must admit that over the past few years I have felt that I have perhaps supported students...
To blog or not to blog?
Our school perhaps doesn't have the perfect culture for writing. However, our school does have an exceptional reading culture. Unlike other places I've worked (some rated as having outstanding English departments), every student has a reading book with them at all...