Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

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...

I have been listening and watching quite a bit of Philip Pullman – I think he has a book out or something. Anyway, he got me thinking about...

Now that the dust has settled on the new format for English Language GCSE, I felt it was time to share some things that have worked and help...