Anneka Hartley

English HOD in Bangkok 🌴. Former Lead Prac (Literacy) + SLE in Hackney. Mum. TF alumni 2007. Books, books, books 📚. Oracy / debating. Avid balcony gardener 🌺

[First Story @FirstStory]

The fantastic @NATEfeed and @arvonfoundation are running a creative writing competition for English teachers.
1st prize: An Arvon residential retreat of your choice
2nd prize: £100 book voucher
3rd prize: £50 book voucher
Deadline: 31st March
More info: https://t.co/s6JehqrAdX

[Adrian Johnson @AdrianJ51513532]

@jonnybid thanks for your enjoyable article about reading and libraries in the latest edition of @NEUnion magazine 📖📚✅😊

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Thai cover for Lessons in Chemistry #BookTwitter

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Cover for 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Thai edition #BookTwitter

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Some of the Christmas decorations I've seen in Bangkok so far this year are pretty terrifying

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Studying Barbara Kruger with my IB students, and this has to be one of my favourite Learner Portfolio responses to her work ever 😆

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Showing off a bit here ... but every so often you get a message from a (former) student that makes it so worth being a teacher 🥹

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Love how cantankerous this is 🫡

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Also love telling them that KB wrote that song when she was 18 and studying English A Level. The advantages of an English Literature education, folks

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Found another excuse to play the Wuthering Heights music vid to a class yesterday. Something about the gothic (child ghosts in the Woman in Black & doors/windows). But I just love seeing students' slightly bewildered faces when Kate is dancing and I'm singing along. Perks.

[Lucy Highnett @lucyhighnett]

Mary Earps is about to play in a World Cup Final. And kids still can't buy her shirt.

Sort it out.

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Wow, fish and chips 'battered by trolls' - that does sound exotic

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Just spoke with a journalist at a major media outlet. They’re going to write about our petition calling for an end to financial links between MPs and the private sector 🌟💙😮

Well done everyone! We’re less than 1700 signatures away from 15,000 already!
👉https://t.co/mK77ApeBEF

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Doing exam marking, for the first time in years, is reminding me of why I said I would never do exam marking again

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Current mood

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Definitely one of the coolest presents I have received from a student ☺️

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

When your debaters are experienced & enthusiastic enough to lead Debate Club & plan activities for the new recruits ... 🤩

[Anneka Hartley @HartleyAnneka]

Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice??) in Vietnamese. If Disney did Regency:

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

These young people truly give me hope for the future.