Mrs P C McCusker

Secondary English Teacher 📚 avid reader, writer, speaker, listener, gamer, D&D player, all round proud nerd ✌🏳️‍🌈
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[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

A great day had by all on the BA Debate Club rewards trip! In London, visiting Speaker's Corner, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. An amazing trip with some truly amazing students! 💬 🥇 #TheBAWay @Bedford_Academy

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@MissBG_ We missed you! Hope it's going well 🥰

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@VMEconomics @GoldingtonAcad @Bedford_Academy Thank you Vincent! We're now planning our reward trip to Parliament for the students who have competed this year! 😎😏

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

So proud of all the students who competed in The Great BA Debate Off! KS3 Event tonight 🥰 thank you to everyone who supported the event and @GoldingtonAcad for providing such great competition! Final scores were 216 and 219 😮 @Bedford_Academy just took the top spot! #TheBAWay

[Mr C Deller FCCT @c_deller]

The 2nd round of The Great @Bedford_Academy Debate off is on! Get your arguments ready - we are debating if the monarchy should be abolished 👀 👑 @GoldingtonAcad #community #TheBAWay

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

I not only love Pringles but also love Shakespeare! I can never throw away this can! 😅😍 #TheBAWay #wellbeingweek #secretbuddy #guesswhatIteach

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@MrSteRobinson @Bedford_Academy Ahh small world! I started in 2020 so we must have just missed paths! 🙂

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

Teacher top tip? Run an enrichment you're passionate about. @Bedford_Academy Debate Club never fails to brighten my week! It was amazing to see students from all years coming together to support our KS4 student team 😎 bring on next week's competition! Thur 30th 5pm #TheBAWay 📢

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@MrSteRobinson @Bedford_Academy how to research effectively, public speaking skills, persuasive writing and formal debate practice! There's probably a lot more to share but I'm not particularly Twitter savvy and hope you can see what I've written in separate messages! Feel free to message if I can help more 😎

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@MrSteRobinson @Bedford_Academy I started the club from scratch and a few tips: (1) Promote - to everyone and anyone (I sent round PP slides to tutors and posters to put up around the school and I spoke in assemblies. (2) The noisy classroom was a great resource for activities and YouTube can help you see

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@MrSteRobinson @Bedford_Academy great practice (I really wanted to get into team debating rather than parliamentary debating and it had great examples for me to deepen my understanding) (3) Let your students devise the topics and take them through all the steps of a debate: getting into teams, assigning roles,

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

BA @Bedford_Academy are running debate competitions this year to promote debate skills in students from all backgrounds! Dates below! 👇

We're looking for schools to submit 1 team of 4 students. If your school would be interested, comment below for full details!
@heartacadtrust

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@Bedford_Academy are running debate competitions this year to promote debate skills in students from all backgrounds! Dates below! 👇

We're looking for schools to submit 1 team of 4 students. If your school would be interested, comment below for full details!

@heartacadtrust

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

*KS3 and KS4

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

Another strong session of BA Debate Club! Over 20 students in attendance and a head to head debate between KS4 and KS5 💪🧠😎 keep spreading the word and hopefully we'll need to move to a bigger room soon! @Bedford_Academy #TheBAWay #TeamCOMMS #SpeakingOut

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

Still buzzing from @Bedford_Academy Debate Club's first formal debate! Students were in teams, prepared speeches, shared rebuttals and practiced public speaking skills. I was still 50/50 till the last second of voting! Well done team! #proud #TheBAWay Debate Club every Thursday!

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

BA Debate Club had 27 students today... only on week 4! #TheBAWay Soon we'll need a bigger space 😏 we played a game of Where Do you Stand? and debated whether dogs are better than cats, pineapple belongs on pizza, the voting age should be lowered and abolishing the monarchy! 🤔

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

COMMs day trip to support Miss Miara in the next step of her business venture! Love Leaf Houseplants now open Mon-Sun in the MK city centre ❤️ @MissGooderson @MissPCassidy

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

My short and hilariously awkward debut in the Teach First videos. I am indeed an "over the top, talkative, energetic" person in and out of the classroom! 😅 My passion for the job and English teaching is something I cannot hide!

[Mrs P C McCusker @MrsPCMcCusker]

@ActiveYouthUK Lots of people around you that would love to listen or help if they can, myself included! Teaching is a hard job but wow does it have an amazing community. You work incredibly hard in your role and we want to help keep the good folk around! Just saying 😎 give us a shout anytime!