Teaching creative writing is a real challenge because so often it relies on richness of imagination or richness of experience. Many students lack both of these because they do not read or […]

‘An Inspector Calls’: Structure, Form and the Three Unities Priestley has engineered and built the play like an architect carefully constructs a beautiful house (or perhaps, not so beautiful in the case […]

Ozium means “‘breath” or “air”, and mandate means “to rule”. Ozymandias means to breathe is to rule. Firstly, here is an example response provided by AQA and what makes it successful: Explore […]

Arguably, the most basic skill that we ask students to comprehend, refine and master. This is also a skill that as secondary teachers, we may assume has been taught and learned well […]

The seven deadly sins are also known as cardinal sins, or capital vices. These delightful characteristics are of Christian origin and concern the grouping of certain behaviours that have immorality as their […]

Revision is pretty boring…here are a few ideas to liven it up.  #1 Quotation Quest! Objective: to practise using quotations, not just memorising them! Students are given a list of quotations on […]

STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. From an English teaching perspective, it may initially seem tricky to encourage and integrate these subjects and ideas into our lessons. It’s […]

My students have loved having these to refer to. They’ve glued them in the back of their books. We’ve run competitions in lessons to who can use the most words (accurately!). an-inspector-calls-word-bank […]

My lower set students struggle with analysing quotations and particularly including context when it is relevant. Instead of asking students to write P.E.E.L or a P.E.E.L.Z or a P.E.A.K.L or one of […]