Mum of two humans and one cat, half of a fab duo, teacher, Senior Head of English + Media. Interested in Teaching & Learning. Avid reader. Sometimes I write.
@MissNGrace This gives me flashbacks. When in yr 10 a peer dismissively stated black people ‘should just get over slavery already’, I told her she was wrong and cruel (she was). My maths teacher heard the whole thing, called me racist (?) and gave me detention! Core memory!
@DeanAtta Thank YOU! The past week I’ve struggled to start 3 other books and yours was just absolutely delicious from the very beginning! I couldn’t put it down!
I just finished #onlyontheweekends by @DeanAtta I absolutely loved it and couldn’t put it down - I started it at 10:20 this morning 😁Fleshed out characters I cared about, a plot that held my breath and so beautifully written. Just brilliant!
@jeffreykboakye I had to pause the latest episode several times to get through it. The tears were coming 10 minutes in! Brilliant writing and acting. I look forward to seeing what the team do next.
🚀| Remember when @TaylorSwift13 was in 4th grade and she won a national poetry contest!
She achieved it with a self written poem named “Monster In My Closet.”
@adamboxer1 @TabitaSurge @greeborunner @guruteaching @GauravDubay3@Team_English1 We tend to include 1 or 2 in our Do Nows but feel like they’re more ‘recognition’ than retrieval since the answer is there. I’m about to write 30 on The Merchant of Venice. It’ll take me less time to write them than it would to assess fewer open questions + I can assess more ppl
@adamboxer1 @TabitaSurge @greeborunner @guruteaching @GauravDubay3@Team_English1 We started using them during lockdown and continued. Had plenty of online training and then shared CPD with other teams. They worked well and continue to. We use them 4 anything from SPaG, learning terminology, matching quotes, synthesising, developing schema evaluating big ideas