Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion of vocabulary on Twitter and blogs and helping students to develop with the GCSEs. Some of it...

There is something that is very frustrating in English lessons. It isn’t something that, we, English teachers talk about, but we do have to...

I love Dickens and I am embarrassed to say that I never studied his work at university. I even did a whole unit on the Victorians and yet I ...

I love that bit in ‘Hamlet’ where Polonious asks Hamlet what he is reading. Hamlet replies, “words, words, words”. It has recently come to m...