Alexandra Aspinall

English teacher. 30 years old. Comic book mad and all-round geek.

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Just posted a photo @ Liverpool https://t.co/pzCtRrFjAP

[St John Plessington Catholic College @SJPHeadteacher]

Team Creative have been busy with Years 7 to 10 designing a hot air balloon using the Zentangle art style. #TeamCreative #SJPExperience #80DaysAroundtheWorld

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Played with structural learning bricks for my Research Project today as a way of practising making inferences, picking out short quotes, using subject terminology (and tracking) to answer a character question for An Inspector Calls #structurallearning #paulmain #teamenglish

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Year 10 using line graphs to evaluate how the power dynamic between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth fluctuates in Act, Scene 2! #teamenglish #teachertools #teachersofinstagram #englishteacher #macbeth #gcseenglish

[Sarah Stacey @SarahStacey85]

Big well done to @MissAspinallEng for winning the goody box prize this week! 😘👏🏻

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

When a load of your lower set Yr8s ask whether they can sit and do their apostrophe homework during wet-break today instead of sitting and having a gab with their friends...who are you and what have you done with my kids?! 😂🤣

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

@SarahStacey85 Ahh thank you!! I am so excited by this!! 😁😊 Thank YOU for providing the department with it! Xx

[David Williams @davowillz]

Top tip for Literature students everywhere: read the books. No, really, actually read them all, and all of them.

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Looking for new ways to make teaching ambitious punctuation a little more fun for my classes. The numbers next to the explanations correspond to the example sentences on the pull-out arrows. #teamenglish #englishteacher #punctuation

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

@mrs_weasley6 I used a computer and just copied and pasted the circles and made them smaller each time! 🙂

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Lower set Yr8 worked on their Word Wheels this afternoon. They used a thesaurus to find ambitious synonyms. In the Independent Ten task, pupils were challenged to use a word from each colour segment and implement it into their description of a Gothic setting. #teamenglish

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

My Yr11s needed a good revision of sentence structures so lo and behold the Sentence Structure Jigsaw. I think this would work brilliantly with word classes and literary devices as well! #englishteacher #teamenglish #sentencestructures

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Finally taught my #poundlandpedagogy lesson using cable ties for venn diagrams and playing cards to ensure concise analysis of quotes. Pupils were comparing Macbeth and Banquo's reactions to the Witches in A1S3. #englishteacher #macbeth #teamenglish

[Mr Moon @MrMoonUK]

Character autopsy resource based on ‘THINK’, ‘FEEL’, ‘DO’ and ‘GO’. Used at @UnityBlackpool recently to help #analyse Jim Hawkins in #TreasureIsland. #Reading #TeamEnglish

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Completed Vocabulary Wheel ready to be photocopied, filled in and used to encourage my bottom set Yr8s to use ambitious vocabulary (adjectives) to describe their Gothic setting! #vocabulary #creativewriting #englishteacher #teacher #secondaryschool #gothicfiction #thesaurus

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Busy creating vocabulary wheels for my bottom set Yr8 who will be describing a Gothic setting tomorrow! Pupils will use a thesaurus to fill in their wheel with the challenge of coming up with their own adjective! 👻💀😱 #englishteacher #teamenglish #creativewriting

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

No Pen Day - Macbeth revision dice game to initiate discussions on key themes, symbols and motifs in the play. At the end of the lesson, we discussed which topics were easy and which ones they struggled to explain (and tackle them further with revision) #macbeth #teamenglish

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

Practised creating some cable tie venn diagrams + playing card notes (for concise analysis) for my Poundland Pedagogy challenge! My year 10s will compare Banquo and Macbeth's reactions to the Witches. Teaching this next week! 🤓 #poundlandpedagogy #englishteacher #activelearning

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

My items for Poundland Pedagogy!! What will I be using these for?? #poundlandpedagogy #teaching #teachersofinstagram #teacher #englishteacher #pedagogy #secondaryschool #activelearning

[Alexandra Aspinall @MissAspinallEng]

When your year 11s know you're obsessed with the quote 'Look like th' innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t' and one of them tells you they're focusing their art project on that quote! 😊😊😊 #macbeth #englishteacher