Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

As we get closer to the end for our Year 11s, it is so common for us to throw (metaphorically)  everything and the kitchen sink at them. As ...

It is that annual time of year where I teach Question 3, the structure question, to students. The more I teach this question, the more I thi...

There is a danger in English that we become the subject of extracts. Let’s look at an extract for Paper 1. Let’s look at an extract for Pape...

  'The ability to make inferences is, in simple terms, the ability to use two or more pieces of information from a text in order to arri...

O h what a crazy time it is. I think all of us are in this blur of quickly teaching, quickly assessing and quickly marking work for Year 11s...