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Well, well, well Year 7 @TrinityAcademyL!
Your first ever @SparxReader Home Learning deadline was 7pm...and...
You smashed it! Well done!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
I am being held in SHU, the highest level of security which exists.
No commissary.
No visits.
No contact with the outside world.
My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Posting on social media is contact with the outside world.
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Listened to this on my way home from Manchester. It is GOOD! So much to unpick from @Mr_Raichura. Will be listening again as I’m sure there will be nuggets I’ve missed!
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In my town there's an area of Outstanding primaries that feed into a Good secondary. Primary results are fantastic, secondary are ok. As a secondary teacher I wonder, is this typical and why does it happen? @Strickomaster @Teacherglitter @FunkyPedagogy @MrsSpalding
Are there any meaningful ways to support KS3 students outside of lesson time who are persistently underachieving? @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy @Xris32 @AlexJQuigley
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This any use, Alice? @atharby has a great book on this, I think. susansenglish.wordpress.com/…
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đź“šPOST!đź“š
A small thing, but it makes a massive difference to student writing.
How I teach students to embed quotations, with step by step instructions.
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Welcome to my display hack/tricks thread.
I get loads of questions about my displays so here's to not gatekeeping.
Firstly, here are some of my previous displays.
Let's begin.... 1/n
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I think the most daunted I’ve felt when facing a new role was as a head of department in 2016. In hindsight, the most important years in my career. I learnt value of a happy team & important lessons on curriculum implementation in particular.
But it … justonethingafteranotherblog…
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Updated with more added - thank you everyone! dropbox.com/sh/lsvkueegs7pw9…
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We are reflecting on how far we’ve come on our literacy journey since Easter 2021.
We started on a burning platform 🔥
23.9% of our cohort were functionally illiterate (nationally, 17% adults are FI)*
This week, that figure stands at just 5.8%
🧵 ⬇️ 1/
*NLT
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🧵KS3 Assessment in English: REVISION
The great thing about using the curriculum as the progression model, and having Curriculum Related Expectations, is it means we specify, teach and assess the knowledge we expect students to acquire.
This is what our May Exams will do. 1/4
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Let’s talk poetry… 🧵
As specialists, we see lots of things in poems; sounds, images, metaphors, intertextual references, patterns, structures etc etc. Sometimes, we can think that in order for a poem to be understood, our students need to know all of this stuff too.
Best Shakespeare play to teach to Year 7 and why? 🎠@Team_English1 @GCSE_Macbeth
I watch a lot of book reviewers on YouTube. Many are authors or work in the publishing landscape. Almost all make comments about how their time at secondary made them lose their love of reading, particularly of classics. Worrying? So, did secondary school:
@Team_English1
80%Increase your love of đź“š
20%Make you fall out of love
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1/ We feel very proud to be showcasing our work around literacy on this national platform with @MaryMyatt & @stevewillshaw
Our very own @FunkyPedagogy explains here how we have set the ambitious target that no child will leave us below their chronological reading age. #impact ⬇️
The secondary subject network schedule is now live on @MyattandCo
This term focused on reading led by @stevewillshaw
It starts with @FunkyPedagogy and the rationale for including high quality texts across all subjects
Then RE with @josephkinnaird & @JoanneH_RE
Hurrah!
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I'm considering bringing a proposal to focus on disciplinary oracy and literacy to SLT as a focus for September. Have any schools embedded a clear and explicit strategy who would be willing to talk? @FunkyPedagogy @Team_English1 @PepsMccrea @ThePiXLNetwork @AlexJQuigley
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A quick 🧵on standardisation vs moderation - some thoughts for Heads of Department / those who have responsibility for assessment. Let’s talk about the purpose of each, and ways to carry them out successfully. But let’s also be brief, because ya know, time is limited! 1/-
