I'm happy to report that I'm moving onto pastures new in September as KS3 Lead: English at The Trinity School. It's sad to be closing my chapter as a cog in the engine that is Paxman Academy, but I'm excited to open another chapter in the ongoing story! 🍎 #GetIntoTeaching

Great to be back under the tutelage of @FunkyPedagogy as she talks through how to use The Money Anthology to teach creative writing and rhetoric. Do check it out! (bankofengland.co.uk/educatio…)

‘Through one man, acting on behalf of us all, we lost the plot. We are still on the stage, still acting because the show must go on, but it’s going on without a coherent story. We are still alive, but we’ve lost the way to truly live.

Rounding off the day with @Mrs_D_EngHOD talking about conceptual curriculum and progression within that. 🐝 #LitdriveCPD25

Such a joy to be learning from @shadylady222 who’s in her Chris Whitty era with @Lit_liverbird supporting on the slides. ‘Next slide please.’ 🐝 #LitdriveCPD25

Another packed out room for the wonderful @FunkyPedagogy. 🐝 #LitdriveCPD25

Standing room only for @mrsmacteach33’s session on writing at the sentence level. 🐝 #LitdriveCPD25

Opening with @NooPuddles discussing the power of @LitdriveUK as a grassroots movement. 🐝 #LitdriveCPD25

Stellar! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Does anyone from @Team_English1 have a replacement text for The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf with similar themes? We've used it in the past as part of the transition from Year 6, but a lot of primary schools are now teaching it. #TeamEnglish

Who was the brilliant person from @Team_English1 who said about making triangles to compare the anthology poems? #TeamEnglish

When Adam and Eve first ate of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they realised they were naked, sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves and hid in the garden. God calls out to them and asks where they are. They explained that it was because they…