English Teacher 👩🏽🏫 KS4 English Lead 📚 GCSE Lit and A-Level Language Examiner ✏️ and Teach First Ambassador 🌈
United Kingdom
Joined August 2019
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Nicole retweeted
Let’s talk about characters as devices… 🧵
Lots of the time, character will fall into 3 groups:
- role models
- warnings
- plot devices.
Teaching students which of these they are can be really helpful when moving students to understanding that texts are constructs…
Nicole retweeted
I marked for AQA Language Paper 2 this year 🚂 Here’s some takeaways I took that I’ll be sharing with the English dept, so why not share with you all 🪡🧵
Nicole retweeted
Do you have to do a results analysis?
Links to useful stats & analysis from the 2023 results including:
*National data
*Boys/girls data
*Regional data
*Previous years
*Numbers of entries
*Exam board statistics
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Nicole retweeted
I noted on centre services that the mark schemes for the AQA A level physics exams are out.
Every year I sit down and answer the questions as a student would.
When the mark schemes come out I mark them honestly and see how I did.
It's great CPD.
Here's how I did... 🧵/1
Nicole retweeted
As GCSE and A-level exam results days loom, @matilda__martin reflects on the journey these cohorts have faced to reach the big day over the past four years – and asks leaders if a return to 2019 standards is fair
tes.com/magazine/analysis/se…
Nicole retweeted
Starting to plan units on Language Change and Language Discourses for AQA A-Level English Language. If anyone would be kind enough to share any resources/expertise OR point me in the right direction to helpful texts, that would be amazing! @EngLangBlog @Team_English1
Nicole retweeted
It feels like there’s a tiny (don’t jinx it…) bit of breathing space happening without Year 11/13… If you or your dept. are creating new Shakespeare SOW, I’d love to give away another free copy of #HowToGetA9inShakespeare. Just RT & ♥️ #giveaway #comp #CPD #teamenglish
Nicole retweeted
Win 30 books for your school!
We’re giving away a class set of The Black Flamingo to one UK school.
For your chance to win, just follow us and share this post by 10am on 15/05/23.
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Nicole retweeted
@Team_English1 Please can anyone point me in the direction of a decent video recording of Blood Brothers? I've seen the Kiki Dee version on Youtube, which is OK but v grainy. I'm happy to pay.
Nicole retweeted
📕 POST! 📕
A MODEL ESSAY for Macbeth looking at ambition.
Help yourself and share freely with your students
codexterous.home.blog/2021/0…
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@team_english1 A quick summary of the English Language 2022 Exam Report with a downloadable document. Hope it is useful. susansenglish.wordpress.com/…
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✨New post✨by English teacher @mrsbrewtandcake exploring the plight of Dickensian children 📖using @CLiC_fiction💻 a must for those #ReadytoTeachACC👩🏻🏫
Innocence & Ignorance: Concepts of Childhood Reflected in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol🎄🧹
blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens…
Nicole retweeted
On the hunt for the best Y11 revision guides for both literature and language ready to order for our classes in September. Any recommendations please? #teamenglish @Team_English1
Nicole retweeted
Could you do something with these? amp.theguardian.com/film/201… Or this? lithub.com/on-our-fascinatio… or this? pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
Nicole retweeted
🚨CPD Competition🚨
We are delighted to be hosting @mr_englishteach for a webinar on how to help underachieving boys 👦.
RT for a chance to win a free ticket 🎟. Winning entry will be drawn next Monday 4th April at 1500.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-boy-q…
