Sarah Francis

Curriculum Leader for English at a school in Wiltshire | Team Leader for AQA English Language | Trying to navigate my way through motherhood & teaching.

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

If anyone wanted to download my Word Class Cheat Sheet, I've popped a link below.
https://t.co/c3DNH5T1HZ

@Team_English1 @TabithaMayhead https://t.co/wjgldFqK05

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

Hoping this isn't too late for year 11! They are too reliant on my word class display so giving them this to revise from. #teamenglish

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@EngLangBlog One of my lovely colleagues went to the face-to-face launch & stressed how phenomenal it was. This, plus the @LexisPodcast episodes on Lang and Gender, have helped me plan some (hopefully) cracking lessons on more modern research regarding gender! Thank you so much!

[joanna schroeder @iproposethis]

Do you have white teenage sons?

Listen up.

I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists.

Here's how:

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

Publication day tomorrow! If you’d like a free signed copy, retweet this and I’ll pick one out at random at 9:00am UK time on Thursday 12th Oct! #BookGiveaway #YoureAllTalk https://t.co/lDf46KPirD

[Hardenhuish Library @HarnishLibrary]

Some September stats here at Hardenhuish:

Library loans: 792 (715 of which were fiction)
Library lessons: 43
Books re-catalogued onto the system: 900 (up to 2218 in total)

And our most borrowed book was...Heartstopper Volume 1!

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

Can anyone recommend any reading/people to follow about pushing the most able to achieve?

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@lcpalmerpoet needs our stories of games students have played…

He knows mine well. An invisible ball thrown around my classroom - one that shifted size - but one that I wasn’t allowed to catch. Can’t decide if it’s the lowest point or highest point in my teaching career…

[Luke Palmer @lcpalmerpoet]

#teachers of #teachertwitter. Now that the end's in sight and there's room to breathe, I need your help.

What are the best games that your students played this year? The ones they knew the rules to and you didn't. The ones that made you laugh (especially if they shouldn't.)

[Luke Palmer @lcpalmerpoet]

#teachers of #teachertwitter. Now that the end's in sight and there's room to breathe, I need your help.

What are the best games that your students played this year? The ones they knew the rules to and you didn't. The ones that made you laugh (especially if they shouldn't.)

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@NooPuddles I'm currently building a TWIB SOW from scratch too! Happy to share resources & collaborate. Mine's for Y8 and we're using it as the basis of a recreative piece of writing, rather than a reading assessment.

[Hardenhuish Library @HarnishLibrary]

A bumper book group meeting today, not only sampling our selection of contemporary novels for term 6 but also getting the opportunity to grab @FleurHitchcock and @simonjamesgreen titles in preparation for their Lit Fest visits next week!

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

Plea for help! I marked the Rosabel Language Paper a few years back but lost my standardised scripts for Q3. Anyone got them knocking about? @Team_English1

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@EnglishMajer Of course!

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

Spending the morning planning some Language Discourse lessons for Year 13 and recent training from @EngMediaCentre has made it a whole load easier!

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@trainteachgrow @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 Of course! Send me your email and I’ll try to pop a load of CLA stuff in a folder.

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

2 years in a row, I've had to pick up Y13s mid-way through the year & have never taught Child Language Acquisition from the start. This means I'm always wobbly with writing my own essays. I've written this response to AQA's Nov. '20 paper. Any advice? @EngLangBlog @Team_English1

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@trainteachgrow @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 We ended up doing that yesterday afternoon, actually! Mine struggle to balance the two AOs and lean heavily on learned knowledge. Happy to share if you send me your email address ☺️

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@JessNaylor8 @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 Of course you can! Send over your email address. I will have a look what I’ve got for Q5. Not written full responses as the majority of mine won’t even considered doing the written English question.

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@AlegnaBrown @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 That helps loads. Thank you so much.

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@42buckley @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 It’s really tricky isn’t it? I find deciphering the question & then analysing the dataset such a big task for 30 marks.

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@MissWrightEngl1 @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 We normally do a speech on a current issue that they spend a term’s worth of homework researching and writing about but feels like a big commitment in a year when our time is really limited!

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

Does anyone know if @AQAEnglish are returning to typical Spoken Language Endorsement requirements for this year? Do we need to record pieces? Do we need audiences bigger than one? Can’t see any confirmation anywhere! @Team_English1

[Sarah Francis @MissSRLawrence]

@SusanSEnglish @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 Thank you so much!