@HMRCcustomers Filled a return for HICB tax. Paid incorrect amount because that was the only way to not receive further fines. Trying to get it corrected... now HMRC think it's it owes me £3000.. it's laughable.
Got hung up on whilst someone went to ask for help this morning... after 57 mins on the phone. Waiting in vain right now. Maybe I'll try tomorrow. 9th call... trying to sort SA from 23-24 to pay HICB tax. Ridiculous. @HMRCcustomers
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Non-fiction writing: This fantastic TED talk persuasuve writing mini-scheme would be great for KS3.
Find it here: https://t.co/8uZ3v4C4wU 🐝
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@English_MrsB With writing stimulus in front of them, we generate 8-10 words before we start writing. Verbs/adverbs/adjectives but also interesting imagery/phrases. There's a great website ... and io one that let's you put in an idea, eg. Eyes and generates phrases which we play with.
@GBNEWS 2nd paragraph: "However, the BBC presenter isn't in trouble for any of his posts on social media - with a cold robbing him of his voice instead."
@MissShakesparke Do they know the various perspectives they can discuss? Political, economical, social? I saw this somewhere once. I personally use this as sentence stems as well...
🌟Creative writing: sentence models🌟
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I've been doing lots of sentence work. Last term, I tried to write with students every lesson, just trying to build writing muscles and expose them to lots of models
Inspired by @ChrisYoules His book is fab!
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A Thread on Handwriting…
Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are some things I think about now that I didn’t always consider before…
Too 4 dystopian short stories for Y9 please. My choice is ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. Stories by wider range of voices particularly welcome. Thank you