Natalie McKay

English Teacher and Deputy Director of S&W Teaching School Hub.

[Swindon and Wiltshire Teaching School Hub @SwindonWiltTSH]

We are excited to be in Birmingham for the first Teaching School Hub Council training day 🤩

#tshctrainingday22

[Jimmy Kiernan @MrJKiernan]

Huge shout out to the students who attend every live lesson, submit every assignment, answer when put on the spot and say a quiet but very welcome “thank you” at the end of a lesson. 👏🏻

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@SbowenMiss @MrNash1978 Love this idea to get them moving! Going to steal for my tutor group 👍🏼

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

Consistently impressed by the work our students are completing during live lessons (and loving the notebook to see it all done live - *almost* feels like I’m just looking in their book in a normal lesson) #GWproud

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@lau_richo @PooleMaternity Congratulations Laura! So happy for you xx

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@N_Har2016 @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy Always have this issue! I have emphasised to them specificity. ‘You cannot write anything that I could pick up and place in another answer/one on another extract without having to alter’ - if that makes sense...

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

Very much enjoyed working with our wonderful cover staff from across the cluster today! Thanks for hosting us @avonbourneTandL

[Avonbourne Academies T&L @avonbourneTandL]

Today's Train to Teach CPD was led by @lauratsabet and @nmckayeng. Thank you to all the candidates from @AvonbourneUL @CarterCS_Poole and @GlenmoorAcademy for joining us.

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@misskdonkin @Team_English1 I love these! More and more convinced that close consideration of individual words is the key to opening up analysis and ideas for students. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

What do people teach with regards to every character referring to Eva Smith as ‘pretty’ in AIC? I feel I’ve never quite been able to articulate its significance very well... @Team_English1

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@debbs_198 @charliehill245 Re-planned my lesson tomorrow in light of your insights @charliehill245 👌🏼

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@lauratsabet Laura! I have just returned from a holiday involving wild swimming in Somerset and I now will not sleep for at least a week 😱

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@Luckysmilearts Apologies for the lateness/zoom issues! I’m glad you found it useful 😊

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

What a student! Thoroughly well deserved 🥳

[United Learning @UnitedLearning]

The winner of the Year 10-13 Maths Award is Mason from @WintonAcademyUL. Mason is described by his teacher as 'one of the most gifted Mathematicians that I have had the pleasure to teach'. #BiEAwards

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@HmabbMiss Those are my rambled thoughts! Hope it’s useful 👍🏼

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@HmabbMiss The ‘coloured molecule’ part is confusing in this connection to language (how can spoken words be coloured molecules?) but this confusion is echoed further in the ‘tastes of sunlight’. The synathesia seems to reflect either the power or distance of her memories 🤷🏼‍♀️ /2

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@GWyear9 Outraged at these stats 😱

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

@debbs_198 @JoeSirodcar @HayleyMuse18 Storm on the Island... #timeforarealchallenge

[Natalie McKay @nmckayeng]

Today I taught some poetry to some Year 10s in real life and it was simply lovely #GWproud