Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

 I enjoy teaching poetry but I do find the idea of an anthology of fifteen poems for GCSE such an overwhelming prospect for students. I have...

 We are currently working with our Year 11s to help them prepare for an assessment on unseen poetry and for me it has, yet again, made me th...

Like others, I have been working on getting students to balance ideas, discussion on language choices and the writer’s message or intent. Fo...

Teaching is a strange thing and it is hard to define what makes things stick in a student’s head when other ideas leave the brain as qui...

This week I have been working with Year 10 and helping them start writing poetry comparisons. As a class, we created the following opening c...

Yesterday, I blogged about marketing revision is school. You can find the blog here . In it, I described the revision cards I give to stude...