Kate Clarke

English teacher (secondary). Married (sporty Irishman) with 2 kids (one sporty, one like me). Like cycling, reading low-brow crime fiction, tv, arty stuff.

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

Frank and Betty are two dachshunds in need of a new sofa. They’re based in the Midlands and available through The Red Foundation (https://t.co/SwESSWcfB5).
#dachshund #adoptdontshop

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

If you’re not sure what to do for revision sessions over Easter, there are a bunch of resources in this folder. For me at this point it’s practice, repeat… x infinity. @Team_English1

https://t.co/5B0NJuBQdW

[Laura Webb @LauraLolder]

Doc so that you can place a Macbeth with an ACC so that it's a mini lit paper 1 on one page.

Hopefully these are useful for the final push! I always run out of extracts - I'm hoping this will help my students as well as yours 💕Find them here:
https://t.co/SKl5iyUNos

[Bernardine Evaristo @BernardineEvari]

I end this piece with a list of 60 black British women novelists writing across genres, many of them debuts & the majority are not well-known. Look them up and see if they're for you, your reading group, your friends, different gens of your family. #Vogue https://t.co/bMRYDek8jL

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@TabitaSurge In a school I worked in (not now!) we had that, vandalism and a bit of drug dealing as well. I don’t think people know how terrible some teenagers can be!!

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@BookwormVaught I got help (sort of) via the SEN department and by being a loathsome, pushy parent who won’t go away…

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@BookwormVaught Of course you may! It is so frustrating and wrong of unis to offer disability support that is not worth the paper it’s written on!

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@BookwormVaught I have literally written that in my shouty emails!

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@BookwormVaught Depending on the student but they have a legal obligation to make reasonable adjustments for disability. Easier said than done - I have had to be really involved with my autistic daughter uni and it is exhausting.

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@ASMU_Sendplight I’m sorry you and your family are going through this.

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

This was another possibility but still not quite right - a bit too predictable (although love the historical setting). #Sawbones #CatherineJohnson

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

Looking for a Y7 replacement for The Graveyard Book but this isn’t it… Sad story mind. #TheBoneSparrow #ZanaFraillon

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@englishspecial My energy levels are the same in class but my recovery levels are much longer!

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@englishspecial I’m a 53 year old English teacher (retrained at 44) & part time is the only sustainable way if you want to stay in the classroom. I do 4 days a week - 5 days with 6 classes nearly killed me!

[Daniel Bundred 🦡 @DanielBundred]

I know this interview has got a lot of traction, and some schools are beginning to use some of what I said in the podcast as the basis for standards transformation. And I want to tell you all that there's something missing in what I said; parents.

[Rosie 📚 she/her ♀️ @edu_feminist]

Hey #TeamEnglish 👋

I made this Love Through the Ages Unseen Poetry Booklet for our KS5 English Literature (AQA 7712) students. The aim is to teach them unseen analysis skills as well as broaden their wider reading for Paper 1.

Link to download here: https://t.co/Lp9MxH1HXx

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

@Sathnam Tess of the D’Urbervilles - could not bear her insipid wimpiness when I was in 6th form - understood her powerlessness far better a couple of decades later!

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

Bought on impulse in the airport. Not bad but far, far too long at 900+ pages - nearly gave up. #TheInkBlackHeart #RobertGalbraith

[Kate Clarke @kmc2804]

18th century dissection and body stealing YA - pops along quite nicely. #Sawbones #CatherineJohnson