Mrs Collins

Assistant Headteacher: Key Stage Four Academic Standards 👩🏻‍🏫 NPQSL 🤓 Teacher of English and Drama 📚 Ex-BRIT school💃All views are my own!

[SecondaryEnglish 🐝 @SecondaryEng]

Inside / Outside the text 🙏

https://t.co/f8uDOwL0D9

[Gaurav Dubay @GauravDubay3]

Created an intervention booklet pushing grade 7 students to grade 9 for English Literature, Paper 1 (AQA) with a specific focus on thesis statements for 'Macbeth' and 'ACC'. @teachals @SPryke2 @HughesHaili books were very helpful. Can be accessed via https://t.co/NAWZUM68To

[SecondaryEnglish 🐝 @SecondaryEng]

Close Analysis: The LIT Skill Split - https://t.co/AZ19VmuDBK #englishteacher

[SecondaryEnglish 🐝 @SecondaryEng]

'What? How? Why?' is a great framework for students to shape an effective literature analysis... the only things is, students need help remembering exactly what each step is asking. https://t.co/lsEtVJArzN

[HeadteacherChat @Headteacherchat]

School leadership can feel personal.

A tough email. A parent complaint. A colleague’s comment. A challenge from governors.

Feedback can land fast and sharp—even when you try not to take it to heart. Because you care: about doing the right thing, your staff, pupils and families, and the standards you uphold.

Reflective leadership is creating a small space between what happens and how you respond—not ignoring the feedback or the emotion, but asking:

What’s the message?
What’s useful?
What needs clarity?
What needs a calm response?

Sometimes feedback holds something important. Sometimes it’s pressure, misunderstanding or frustration. The skill is sorting signal from noise without losing yourself.

That takes resilience, trusted people, and permission to be human.

If something has landed heavily, don’t carry it alone. Pause. Reflect. Talk it through. Respond in line with your values.

You’re allowed to be affected—and still lead.
https://t.co/rkdxifMtHk

#SchoolLeadership #Headteachers #EducationLeadership #ReflectiveLeadership #SLT #Resilience #TeacherWellbeing #HeadteacherChat

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

Creative writing booklet of lessons and 1.5 hour CPD session I mentioned last week is finally 🚨 LIVE on the website, here:
https://t.co/bzhPc8xgcm
£10 for non-subscribers, £5 for subscribers.
Price includes 1.5hr CPD session and a resource folder with PDF/DOC versions📂
Enjoy!

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

NEW RESOURCE: Just something I’m experimenting with. Using power and conflict poetry as a stimulus for writing. Thought I’d post in case it’s useful! Use/chuck/change as you see fit. https://t.co/8nYr12NTod

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

Thinking of putting a CPD session together which includes this creative writing scheme we have been using for Y10 tutor this year.

It is 24x30 minute slots to teach transferable creative writing skills including vocab, sentence structure & atmosphere. Thoughts?

@Team_English1

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

NEW RESOURCE: A final set of revision slides for Language Paper 1. Hopefully useful for the exam this week! Uses an adjusted paper by the brilliant @DoWise. Help yourselves - use/chuck/change as you see fit! https://t.co/5YPwVlcd0Q

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

REPOST: A walking, talking mock for AQA English Language Paper 1. Thought I’d share again in advance of the exam next week! https://t.co/ugqsGSPfCH Help yourselves 👍🏻

[Mrs Chudasama @mrs_chudasama]

👀Revising Power & Conflict Poetry?👀
AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Pairing Quotations https://t.co/hq22kOILAa

🖇️#Scaffolded Tasks
📎#Themed activities
🖇️#Quotations extracted
📎#Exam practice
🖇️Guidance provided
📎SO MUCH MORE!

#Poetry #English #TeamEnglish #EduTwitter #AQA

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

All quotations with icons for dual coding are done! I've done Macbeth, ACC, AIC and P&C poetry. Free on Tes here: https://t.co/q2Bh4MtvVs
@Team_English1 #teamenglish

[SecondaryEnglish 🐝 @SecondaryEng]

ISPACE. Brilliant sentence openers! Fast progress in #creativewriting. https://t.co/kobAjOjElJ #englishteacher #writing #literacy

[SecondaryEnglish 🐝 @SecondaryEng]

Okay this has been a GAME-CHANGER for creative writing. I've been working on it for a while and it's finally ready! Creating allusions, semantic fields and extended metaphors:  https://t.co/hBBms5Nr2b

[Matt Lynch @Mathew_Lynch44]

NEW: for AQA Lang P1 June 2026 onwards

✅ Rebecca

Complete specimen paper and PPT slide deck with scaffolds, indicative content, student activities and model answers, like so 👇

Help yourself #teamenglish

https://t.co/WnfmQcQ95i

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

Have chucked my new revision pack up here, as people have asked:

https://t.co/7zj9USjQk9

Potential papers, brain dump pages, language papers.

[Matt Lynch @Mathew_Lynch44]

NEW for AQA Lang P1 June 26 onwards

✅ Lullaby

Full specimen paper and PPT slide deck Q by Q with resources, scaffolds, indicative content and model answers.

Help yourself.
#teamenglish

Link in the reply below 👇

[Natalie Cole @happyteacherhub]

It’s been a while! Here’s a bunch of GCSE English revision resources you can use for the final weeks of revision. Starting with…Macbeth https://t.co/aDj4zkuoaR

[North Landesman @MrLandesman]

Instead of "I do, we do, you do" @MrARobbins suggests using the verb check instead.