This is a personal one. It’s about tenacity and how we can get things right with practice. “A story is told of a king who summoned the nation’s best living …

Some short, contextual comments on Blake’s ‘London.’ William Blake’s London, nestled quietly between Shelley and Wordsworth in the AQA Power and Conflict cluster, doesn’t immediately shout of ‘power’ as Ozymandias does, nor …

Preamble: I’ve transcribed part of a lesson, having filmed myself teaching. I wanted to demonstrate the process I went through to improve responses to AQA P1, Q2 and AQA P2, …

I’ve been using whole-class feedback for 2 years now. As a school, we have moved to it as part of a new assessment trial, to be reviewed at Christmas. It …

All images in this blog are available on Google, labelled for non-commercial reuse. All examples of my students’ work have been reproduced here with my students’ express permission. — Over …

The first time I went out for a driving lesson with my mum, I knocked off all the wing-mirrors down our road. It was mortifying. I had to go door-to-door, …

This is a post I wrote in the run up to results day. I’ve collated it so that it’s chronological, as I wrote different parts at different times. — It’s …

My mother-in-law keeps receipts and seems to return anything and everything to any and every shop. I’ve never known her to be refused a refund. She has taken back beef …

Some teachers choose to tweet and blog anonymously. I accept – and often understand – their reasons. I do read anonymous anecdotes with some caution, but there’s a stark honesty from …

Question 3 continues to flummox some GCSE students. If your students still haven’t got the hang of it, then this synopsis may help you. The resource pictured below, with accompanying …