Sharing ideas and resources for English secondary school and sixth form teaching.
Quizzing has become a huge part of my life (rather reluctantly) in the last year or so. In support of interleaving that I have explored in an earlier post, quizzing has become […]
AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written Paper 1: 7.5% Paper 2: 7.5% This aspect of English teaching has always been an issue […]
Top Sheets for Language Papers Something that has proven a nightmare (for every exam I’ve ever taught) is allowing students access to the mark scheme without utterly terrifying them with a 20 […]
“What’s the point in this, Miss?” Charlie said to me after I’d read out the Learning Objective, which was: To understand and apply the key features of a Curriculum Vitae. This is, […]
On first hearing phrases like ‘100% exam’ and ‘not tiered’, like many secondary school teachers, I took a sharp intake of breath and made a facial expression not dissimilar to what I […]
