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Jennifer Webb

2 months

Are you a current or aspiring leader of T&L in a secondary school? I'm running a course for you in June! It will be: 📚 Evidence informed 🧠 EXPERIENCE informed 🛠️ Practical ✅ HONEST

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Jennifer Webb

@FunkyPedagogy

3 years

Who LOVES stationery??? I need some female teachers who are willing to be stationery guinea pigs...

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3 years

I mentioned these a week or so ago and promised to share when I had some. These are a small part of our wider disciplinary reading strategy - developed with HODs and curriculum teams based on the type of reading they will do in their subjects - for classrooms @TrinityAcademyC

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Things I’ve learned in 48 hours: - the NHS is miraculous and we need to look after it - midwives are hard as nails - family is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING Thanks to everyone who has checked in - we are home safe and sound. Welcome, little quarantine baby @maternityCPD

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I've just uploaded 10 hours of Y11 lit & lang revision sheets to my resources page here: I print these as A3 sheets - one side of Literature and one side of Language. Each side has 30 minutes of specific timed activities. Feel free to use/adapt/ignore.

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3 years

I’m particularly proud of this mum-hack. No face paints in the house, so have used lipstick and sudocream 👌😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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2 years

These just arrived in time for INSET next week @TrinityAcademyC I designed these AGES ago based on the most common literacy errors made in West Yorkshire. Have tweaked slightly and had them made up into bookmarks for staff.

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1/ We have done enormous amounts of work on Literacy this year at @TrinityAcademyC and we are starting to see some very encouraging signs that our approach is working. Sharing everything here in the spirit of collaboration and general good cheer... 🧵🧵🧵

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2 years

🧵 By far the most common type of question I get through DMs is about how to get staff on board when introducing new T&L strategies in school. Here is my best advice…

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2 years

My incredibly fierce, sharp-witted, brave and hilarious Nana died yesterday. She leaves behind her a legacy of love and undaunted spirit in her enormous sprawling family. She and my grandad married across the barricade and made life and love possible for the rest of us.

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2 years

Mini-white-boards in the Secondary English classroom: a thread 🧵 I use them a LOT. Mostly, they make for really easy and effective AFL. Note - it is an expectation at our school that students have their own white board pen. MWBs are provided in each classroom. 👇👇👇

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4 years

Does anyone else do this?? 🙈 My favourite class last year were rude to a supply teacher. When I came back, we had a chat about kindness and I made them write a reflection on their behaviour using these prompts... #BeKind #respect #responsibility

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3 years

How is it that I can silence a room of 200 sixteen year olds with a single look, but my 18 month old is currently sitting behind the sofa cushions throwing Lego at me and demanding biscuits, 2 hours after I originally put him to bed??? 🙈 @maternityCPD

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3 years

I am delighted to share the cover of my new book: ‘The Metacognition Handbook.’ Mostly written during maternity leave, this has been an absolute joy to work on and I am so grateful to @JohnCattEd for continuing to support my work. @WomenEd @maternityCPD

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2 months

Right - here’s a massive list of GCSE English Language P2 writing tasks in case anyone is running out of ideas… (use your judgement - not all of these will be appropriate for every class) 🧵🧵🧵

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3 years

Whole Class Feedback 🧵 1/ I love WCF. Not just because it has transformed my work balance (traditional book marking in English is a different class of madness). I love it because it facilitates greater understanding of where my students are, which makes me a better teacher.

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#IWD2020 tribute to my Nana. The oldest of 10 children in a poor Yorkshire-Irish-Catholic family, she married my Caribbean grandfather in the 1950s, raised four mixed race children at a time of ignorance and wrote speeches for Trades Unionists in Leeds @WomenEd @maternityCPD

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4 years

Ok, so IN THEORY, if I were to offer some free CPD to English teachers/departments via Zoom or similar, would anyone be interested in signing up?? I’m thinking of offering a couple of sessions on things in my new book on teaching writing... @Team_English1 @EngChatUK

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5 years

Lots of people have asked for this now that the year is over. These are the Word of the Week resources we used this year - feel free to have a look/use/adapt/ignore as you like! They were made using Adobe Spark.

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Jennifer Webb

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11 months

RELUCTANT WRITERS: a BIG 🧵 📝🖊️✍️🖋️👩‍💻 I say reluctant, but really that describes a whole host of young people who struggle to put pen to paper for a diverse range of reasons. 1/

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3 months

This week I was appointed as the new Trust Director for English and Literacy at Carlton Academy Trust @AcademyCAT1 I feel extremely privileged that the MAT has put its trust in me; literacy in this part of West Yorkshire is a profound potential driver of social justice... 1/

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Jennifer Webb

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4 years

*NQTs* take care of your health! 1/ Schools are veritable Petri dishes. You WILL get a stinking cold at some point in the first term - it’s standard. You DO NOT, however, have to lose your voice. This will only happen if you don’t take care of yourself...

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3 years

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my visualiser??? Look at my new podium thingy! I can model while standing and fully facing the class. Feels so much more natural and dynamic. Booklet + Visualiser + Podium = making clear the thought processes of the expert learner ❤️👌

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Jennifer Webb

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3 years

I’m really delighted to say that I’m taking on a new challenge in 2021. At Easter I will start a new role as Assistant Principal T&L at Cathedral Academy Wakefield @cathedralacadem I feel so lucky to be joining this incredible team! #everythingispossible #newhorizons

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Jennifer Webb

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3 years

1/ I am excited to launch THE READING LIST PROJECT! This is a collaboration for all English teachers to help us make text recommendations for KS3. Want new writers? Greater diversity? New voices? New topics? Have a look here:

The Reading List Project | Books | FunkyPedagogy

The Reading List Project is a bank of books recommended BY teachers FOR teachers, from EYFS, through to secondary school and KS5

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Jennifer Webb

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1 year

Revision - a thread of things (in no particular order) which you might find helpful in the final push... 1/ Poetry anthology - here is a blog I wrote a while ago with some downloadable resources:

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If anyone is (like me) looking in despair at their friends’ Easter-tastic FB posts, please note that you are NOT a bad parent. My son had ONE Easter egg. I did not do an egg hunt, fancy baking, crafts, decorations or wear bunny ears. He still went to bed happy 👍 @maternityCPD

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Jennifer Webb

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5 years

Lots of nervous NQTs out there... for what it’s worth this is my advice for your first week: 1. Keep lessons SIMPLE! You won’t get through everything you’ve planned, so keep it straightforward and save fancy pants stuff with bells on for when you are settled and know your groups

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*Headteacher and her daughter murdered by wicked, unstable man.* There - fixed it for you @DailyMailUK Let’s stop this disgraceful rhetoric which seeks to explain HIS behaviour by blaming HER success.

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Jennifer Webb

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2 years

I feel compelled to voice this because I’ve had some heartbreaking coaching calls with young teachers recently. If you’re a leader with a talented black person in your school and you have earmarked them as pastoral, not curriculum/academic, ask yourself why that is.

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Jennifer Webb

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4 years

I like this...

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Adult ADHD: a thread 🧵 Note - ADHD is a broad spectrum taking in a number of different tendencies, opportunities and challenges. This is just my experience - I am a 35 year old mother of two with combined type. Common things which happen in my day…

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Jennifer Webb

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4 years

‘Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.’ RBG

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2 years

I am bursting with pride 🥹 What a team. And this is just the beginning. We will never stop striving to improve and fighting for our young people to have a world class education. @MissGillinder @TrinityAcademyC

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@TrinityAcademyC

2 years

We are so delighted to share our recent Ofsted Report: ‘Trinity Academy Cathedral is a school with a very special atmosphere and sense of purpose’ This school had a 10-year-long cycle of RI. We are incredibly proud of what we have become. #everythingispossible

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Jennifer Webb

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Thinking about ways to manage your time and plan strategically this coming academic year? Here is a blog and resource explaining my system for staying on top of things, working with my team, and planning the minutiae to make the big stuff happen.

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My mum raised us (two girls with lots of cousins) with the principle of what she called ‘reflective glory’. The idea is that if one of us does something ace, it reflects on all of us, and we should celebrate and lift that person up. That’s a profound life message right there.

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…more subjects being developed as we speak: ICT/Computing, Textiles, Maths, French, RS, PSHE, Business, Music, Drama, Dance, Sport…

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2 years

This won’t mean anything to most people, but I have a bit of a pen obsession and THIS arrived today… #journallingteacher @CassHT will appreciate this…

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Priorities and short cuts - a thread: People regularly ask how I ‘do it’ because I give off the impression that I do a lot. I don’t. I’m just good at prioritising and have learned some good habits.

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Thank you to the man on the petrol station counter who faced a barrage of Islamophobic abuse* with grace and dignity, and then still had the selflessness and generosity of spirit to show kindness to my 5yo. Tender masculinity role-model ❤️ *reported to the police and on CCTV

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‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’

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6 years

I am marking a set of books in a cafe like I do every Sunday morning while my son is with his Nana. A stranger just brought his young son over to my table and said, “look how hard teachers work for you. Thank you so much.” #teachersmatter

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3 years

Sooooo who will be the first to write a lesson for unseen poetry on this INCREDIBLE inauguration poem??? @Team_English1

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1 year

Ok, so this week I’m going to start some work with Y7 on how they might build a sense of dread and foreboding very slowly over time in creative writing. I’m in a storage warehouse right now and filmed this because it is the PERFECT prompt which doesn’t rely on graveyard cliche…

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Jennifer Webb

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5 years

IDEAS PLEASE! Last year I put welcome packs together for all staff (teaching and non-teaching). They included: tea bags, post-its, pens, sweets, hand sanitiser, tissues, drinks invitations, plus CPD keyrings for INSET Planning on doing again but need NEW ideas! @SLTchat

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I’ve been seriously unwell for a while - my amazing school has supported me brilliantly, and I’ve been back in the classroom this week. That magic feeling is still the same. What an unmitigated joy. So - some thoughts on AQA Lang P1 Q3 with my Y11s (target grades 6-9) 🧵👇

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3 years

My youngest baby is one tomorrow. He was born at 6am on the first day of the first lockdown. I’m sad that he’s having his birthday in lockdown after the year he’s had. I MIGHT be overcompensating with a massive balloon arch... look at my works, ye mighty, and despair 😂🙈

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Y11 revision 🧵 I like to work from a blank canvas as often as possible. I want students to pull from their 🧠 rather than relying on notes. Healthy struggle as far as possible. I do love things like revision clocks, but I’m too stingy to print them, so I use blank A3 a LOT… 1/

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2 years

I’m going to share one text per day for BHM which I think would be ace to use in the classroom ALL YEAR LONG. I’m already a day late, so two at once to start with! 🧵 🧵 🧵 #BlackHistoryMonth

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3 years

I’ve just put my boys to bed on the last night of my maternity leave. It’s bitter sweet, and I’m sure I’ll be on a bit of a rollercoaster this week as we get used to it, but I count myself lucky. I love my job, my colleagues and my subject. Proud to be a teacher 🙌 @maternityCPD

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Jennifer Webb

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3 years

In case anyone would find it useful, I've popped my booklet for an 'Art of Rhetoric' unit with Y8 in the resource library on my website. Feel free to use/adapt/ignore if useful. Will also pop it onto @LitdriveUK @Team_English1

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3 years

I haven’t been tweeting much about this because the publication date felt AGES away. I realise this morning that it’s only ONE MONTH until this is released!!! Metacognition stripped back to clarity and impact. Pre-order available here: @JohnCattEd

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3 years

I drove to 5 different shops this evening to find infant Calpol, then couldn’t buy it because the contactless system was down in the only shop where I could find any. As I was driving off, a lady knocked on my window and gave me the Calpol she had bought for us in cash. Angel 🙏

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5 years

Lots of people used our beautiful Words of the Week last year. With some help from @dom_traynor @Adobe we now have ALL of our words for THIS YEAR on this website, totally free and downloadable!! Enjoy! @Team_English1 @CoopLeeds @EngChatUK @LitdriveUK

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3 years

If you missed my Metacognition webinar today and fancy watching it, I've put it on my website for free: You can also find it here on Vimeo: @JohnCattEd

Metacognition Webinar

This is "Metacognition Webinar" by Jennifer Webb on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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2 years

*NEW POST* This is an overview of my part of the talk @mmgiovanelli and I gave at @researchEDWarr today. I've also popped my grammar map and our slide deck into my resource library. I hope they are useful for people!

Grammar for (academic) writing: sentences working hard... | Funky Pedagogy

This post is based on my part of a conference talk with Marcello Giovanelli at ResearchEd Warrington in April 2022 based on the work we have been doing for our forthcoming book, Essential Grammar,...

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4 months

My favourite vocabulary to teach (or consolidate) with Y11 in the run-up to exams... 1. At this point in the course, I like grouping words in clusters. The primary reason is that clusters of words can allow us to teach students how to make nuanced, deliberate choices...

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1 year

💥BANK HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!💥 I’m going to give a 12 month CPD library membership to TEN English teachers at random tomorrow night. To be in the mix, like and RT. Find out more about memberships on my website:

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4 years

Please could news outlets today stop fetishising the murderer of 13 women and start talking about the VICTIMS? He doesn’t deserve our air time, but they do. Oh, and if we could use their names, rather than just referring to them as prostitutes, that would be great. #saytheirnames

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4 years

NQTs: One of the hardest things you can do as an NQT is pick up a Y11 class in September. They are half way through the course, changing teacher, and you don’t know what they have/haven’t done... DON’T PANIC!

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7 years

Massive reduction in marking time! Y11 using ‘sliding scale’ success criteria coupled with pre-written specific DIRT tasks... great results and a well-rested teacher :) @Team_English1 #teamenglish @appletonacademy @appletonenglish @MarkAyres @MissLHirst

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3 years

Can everyone just be kind, please? Lots of pain on edu-twitter today and it is completely unnecessary. Challenge and share ideas in a way which benefits the profession. Picking holes in people is not productive. Teaching is a privilege. Earn the right to be a role model.

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1 year

Looking for texts for KS3 - 4? The Reading List Project is a curated bank of books recommended BY English teachers, FOR English teachers. If you’ve read something great recently please add it to our list! @mrs_denglish

The Reading List Project | Books | FunkyPedagogy

The Reading List Project is a bank of books recommended BY teachers FOR teachers, from EYFS, through to secondary school and KS5

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5 years

Lots of people have asked about the CPD keyrings we use @CoopLeeds . They were the brilliant idea of my colleague @cfoster1010 Here’s a quick explanation...

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Absolutely bursting with pride - my auntie @alison_4life has been made an OBE in the NY Honours ‘for services to mental health and well-being’ as CEO of Touchstone (an incredible charity in Yorkshire). Leadership, changing lives, elevating communities ❤️ @WomenEd 🙌🍍🥳

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This isn’t funded. So it will come from schools’ existing budgets. This is still a real terms pay cut AND it will weaken the provision we can offer. Young people will suffer. It’s a disgrace. And no pay award for teachers in FE or our TA colleagues. Forgotten AGAIN 😤

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Experienced teacher pay to rise by 5%

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4/ If you’d like the bookmark resource, you can find it here on my Canva - feel free to adapt/pinch/ignore: I also have a PDF version on my website 👍

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Here is a list of creative writing prompts I like for generating ideas/practice plans/responses in the final push (for AQA Eng Lang GCSE, but maybe useful for other boards too…) these are all ones which don’t use a photo and aim to make the mundane beautiful… 🧵 #ExamPrep

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Revising Lang P1 Q3 today… we know WHAT structural devices to look for, but how don’t we actually talk about them? 👇👇 … tension … significant moments 🧵 1/

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GCSE English Lit teachers: January is when I start turning my attention to unseen poetry. I like giving students as many experiences of THE ENCOUNTER as possible - they need to encounter poems, to connect with them, decode them, respond to them… 🧵 1/

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Great question - sorry I didn’t see this earlier! I’m sure you’ve already started but here’s an overview of WHAT I DO WITH RESULTS DATA 🧵 ⬇️

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Any advice for first time HoDs reviewing data and dealing with results tomorrow? @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy @LauraLolder

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Wow. That’s my assembly for International Women’s Day sorted, then.

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I’ve been promising this blog all summer. An overview of our zero-written-feedback trial. Lots of successes so far, but work still to do... @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK

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4 years

Happy Halloween, chaps... virtually impossible to get these two to take THE FORCE seriously enough to get a decent photo, but they are cute...

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3 years

Happy book launch to meeeee! Cheeky glass of fizz on a weeknight to celebrate the official release of ‘The Metacognition Handbook’ 🙌 @JohnCattEd @WomenEd

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Difficult week, but this one is TWO and the blossom is out in the garden 🌸🌸🌸

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Unseen poetry. My approach for how to write about an unseen text is called: THREE things about THREE things, and you’ll find it explained in this blog here: But there’s something else I do, too. 🧵 ⬇️

Unseen Poetry Without the Stress... | Funky Pedagogy

Unseen poetry is stressful. We feel that it is never given enough time (because there are fifteen anthology poems to teach) and students struggle with confidence because the texts will be unfamilar...

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*REPOST* Unapologetically ambitious, unashamedly academic: why I believe in challenge for all, plus practical ideas for teachers and leaders.

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My wonderful grandparents ❤️

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My parents married in 1961 and stayed together till my daddy died 53 years later. They faced a lot of barriers as an interracial couple but they fought back and forged the path for others to love who they choose #BlackHistoryMonth #RoleModels #HistoryMakers

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*NEW POST* on teaching GCSE narrative writing, including full model answer:

GCSE Narrative Writing: Form Fragments | Funky Pedagogy

‘Creative’ Writing on the current GCSE specs isn’t really ‘creative’ in the real sense of the word. Students must respond to an unseen prompt in timed conditions and attempt to demonstrate a partic...

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2 years

Are you even an English teacher if you see one of your students reading Jane Eyre and you don’t IMMEDIATELY resolve to give them this?! 😂

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Today was my last day before moving to my new role after Easter. I am going to miss the lovely staff team at my school so much and am grateful to all of them for being such fantastic colleagues. The English department are 🔥 I’ve had some lovely gifts, but this is the thing ❤️😭

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I am 35 today. I will mostly be wearing pyjamas and drinking my favourite tea out of a mug with my own face on it. (Props to @linzi_brown83 for the merch 🙌😂)

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This week: Principal walked into my room in time to see me a) absolutely bomb in some questioning (you know, all those things we say never to do 🙈) and then b) write on the board in permanent marker. We laughed about it afterwards. This is what the opposite of toxic looks like.

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@Backpainandwine I have two young children and I totally agree with you. Your wedding. Your day. Your rules. We wouldn’t be offended if someone invited us without the kids - someone else’s wedding isn’t about us 🤷‍♀️

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4 years

Awesome 😎 @Team_English1

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“Being a teacher is who I am” The next First Lady of the USA is an English teacher.

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Writing a booklet in recent weeks has been fun. Still figuring out what works, but I love it 😁 I’ll pop it onto my website on Monday if anyone wants to steal... students have an exercise book for drafting writing to go alongside... thanks to @SPryke2 and @teachals , naturally 🙏

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Soooo I’ve now officially finished my Level 7 Apprenticeship Masters in Education Leadership with a Distinction in the EPA @TheNCE_ Thank you to @RachelONorth @ViviennePorritt @WomenEd and Nel V-Z - I have gained so much more than letters after my name ❤️ #PLG2rules

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ENGLISH TEACHERS - #EssentialGrammar is BACK IN STOCK! Our book is: 📚a subject knowledge guide 🛠️a practical tool ✨about linguistic empowerment, not judgement @RoutledgeEd will give away 3 free copies - like and RT for a chance to win! @mmgiovanelli

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Saw this idea at another school and loved it. Here we are @TrinityAcademyC - weekly news articles in A4 plastic menu holders in our dining room so that we can BE INFORMED. Different voices, topics and perspectives every week 😁 thanks for the inspiration @NorthShoreAcad

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4 years

Feeling pretty overwhelmed - what started as a little project to raise my target of £500 for @CoppaFeelPeople back in May, we are now in a position to send them £3888.50 from CPD ticket sales. We have also, to date, raised £2628 for @Touchstone_Spt #touchstonelovesfood .

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Last English GCSE paper tomorrow and I am surprised every year by how sad I feel when my Y11 class go. Teaching is a relentless cycle of new relationships, monumental effort, highs, lows and goodbyes. Best job in the world? Yes. A bit sad? Also yes.

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*NEW* literacy blog. Just a short one to share the structure of our reading lessons. I've uploaded the resource as a model, too, if it's useful to anyone.

A literacy post... | Funky Pedagogy

I haven’t written a new original blog of my own in a while, and have been promising to write something on literacy for months. My role of late has become heavily focused on literacy, specifically...

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3 years

SUCH an amazing feeling 🥰 It’s NEW BOOK DAY! Thank you @JohnCattEd for being awesome. Thanks to the fantastic @PepsMccrea and @LouiseSaukila for the forewords. And thank you to @greeborunner @MrMetacognition @isaacmoore7 @DoweySarah for your wonderful contributions!

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2 years

Looking through some old photos. How beautiful is my mum? 😍

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2 years

It appears that some people are feeling a bit ‘fighty’ this weekend. Fancy a timeline sorbet? Post a photo of a human or animal taking joy in something MUNDANE. Boring things only (none of your fancy beach holidays 😂) Here’s my 2yo getting a haircut 💈

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3 years

Always said I wouldn’t be *that* mum, but matching outfits are giving me life...

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2 years

Some last minute Y11 creative writing work from yesterday 🧵 1. Looking at writing simple but effective descriptions of the mundane as a way to DROP in to whatever narrative it is - this one starts with a reaction, then describes the thing being reacted to (a car) and a sound.

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I met this genius when we were 16. This evening, 17 years later, I watched him conduct his arrangement of Mozart Requiem with a premiership brass band and choral society to a sold out Skipton Town Hall. Proud isn’t the word 🤩❤️ @MaestroRDW

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2 years

My CPD series Spring 2022 is all about Literacy. Sessions for classroom teachers, plus a course for literacy leaders. I’ll be supporting @KidsClubKampala again this year 💛

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I’m sorting through things in my office at home, and have found an absolute gold mine of mad stuff from the first few years of my career… I give you: ‘STUFF I HAVE LAMINATED - A MINI-SERIES’

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