Since the day I started at my school, I kept every email from a parent, personally thanking me. I finally had time to print and put in a jar. I love it!

💡 NEW POST 💡

'The problem with reading ages'

"Reading ages are seemingly intuitive and straight-forward, but they can be prone to being misread or more likely over-interpreted."

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👻🏚️Question 3 with our new approach of What - How - When - Why Now? Much clearer understanding of the demands of the question by the end of the lesson☺️

🏦 There’s a bank of over 50 evidence-informed A3 guides available to download for FREE from my website. Useful for building knowledge, developing a shared understanding about learning and supporting CPD!

🙏 Support my work by tapping REPOST and collect them all here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

We have decided not to submit our work to the Grammy Awards this year.

We hope that music will be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language.

Thank you to ARMY and everyone who always supports us.

Could you be our next Education Director?
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the most amazing Central Team who support our school leaders, colleagues & children to be great schools at the 💜of our wonderfully diverse communities.
Please share with your wider networks.

We are running a competition to give away a class set of 30 copies of A Christmas Carol to a school. It's easy to enter, just follow our page, like & share this post. You must work in a school to enter. The prize will be drawn on Tuesday 24th March. mbebooks.com

#TeamEnglish put these together post mocks so students could look at the Macbeth question they did - tick off what scenes they DID write about and then red pen the parts they omitted … other uses no doubt dropbox.com/scl/fo/9cnsapg…

If you’re looking to create Multiple Choice Questions for your lessons, check out my blog reflecting on how I used MCQs as a tool in my classroom.

🔗There’s also a link to the CPD session at the end of the blog.

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🚨 NEW LANG P1 PACK - FREE
8 AQA Papers modified for the new specification - but formatted the same as how the papers will look.
Here > laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#new…
Hope it's useful.

There is nothing new about kids bunking lessons if they’re allowed to. Laying this at the door of SEND is simply ducking the fact that children will often opt-out if no one stops them. The main factor driving this isn’t mental health, but human nature.

Sadly in Scotland, the o poor, and the presumption against effective boundaries do pervasive, that truancy is permitted to the point of normality.

The ‘ghost pupils’ who attend school but skip lessons

thetimes.com/article/94796a…

You can learn something from everyone……

A set of tasks to help students craft single sentences on A Christmas Carol douglaswise.co.uk/blog/crafting-… ❄️

Apparently universities are having to teach English literature students how to concentrate for long enough to read lengthy novels. I have to ask, what makes a person who's incapable of reading long novels decide that studying literature at degree level is for them?

The best teachers I've seen don't use a wide range of activities.

They do a few things, and they do them well. They hone them, practise them, and know exactly when each one should be used and why. The students become habituated to them, and learning goes through the roof.

Teaching Hamlet? Bookings are open for our free online CPD with the fabulous Professor Emma Smith, and teacher and author @MichaelDonkor.

Join us on 12 November for a rich discussion and new resources, exploring ideas of theatricality and performance. eventbrite.co.uk/e/hamlet-in-co…

Excited to get into this!

🥰 ✍ 📗 I'm writing the final chapter of my book today. 45,757 words so far. These two role-models are the spine of the book, and this is what Chat GTP suggests they look like.

⁉️ Traditional names wanted - What would you call these two wholesome characters?
#writing

Have you booked your free place yet?

English teachers! Join us on 25 June for a livestreamed CPD on Macbeth in context, with the wonderful Professor Emma Smith, and teacher & author @MichaelDonkor. We're delving into ideas of agency & blame.
Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/131889900542…

🔥🥷 New 🥷🔥Y6 SATs Reading Paper - Key Information Strategy Video.

youtu.be/rs3TbsqaaG0

Pick those extra marks and secure EXS and GD

#reading #ks2sats #year6 #primaryschool #primaryteacher

English teachers! Bookings are open for our next free online CPD - exploring Macbeth in context on 25 June.
Join Professor Emma Smith, & teacher and author @MichaelDonkor for fresh perspectives, tips & resources. We'll delve into ideas of agency & blame.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/131889900542…