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@dizzykicks

I'm mum to an 12yo, enjoy crochet and teach English but don't let that put you off...

 West Sussex
Joined August 2009
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Got hung up on whilst someone went to ask for help this morning... after 57 mins on the phone. Waiting in vain right now. Maybe I'll try tomorrow. 9th call... trying to sort SA from 23-24 to pay HICB tax. Ridiculous. @HMRCcustomers
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This is fantastic @Mathew_Lynch44 🐝
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@LitdriveUK using a template shared by @evenbetterif here’s 16 weeks worth of spaced and interleaved Lang & Lit revision for AQA: Macbeth, ACC, P&C and AIC but it’s editable, too. You can download it here litdrive.org.uk/cmdownloads/…
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🚨 New member upload 🚨 Non-fiction writing: This fantastic TED talk persuasuve writing mini-scheme would be great for KS3. Find it here: buff.ly/4gXTDZo 🐝 #Litdrive #TeamEnglish
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January lasted eight years but now it’s March in a fortnight even though February started yesterday.
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Do they know the various perspectives they can discuss? Political, economical, social? I saw this somewhere once. I personally use this as sentence stems as well...
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Elaine@mrsmacteach333 Jan 2024
🌟Creative writing: sentence models🌟 Resources in the 🧵 I've been doing lots of sentence work. Last term, I tried to write with students every lesson, just trying to build writing muscles and expose them to lots of models Inspired by @ChrisYoules His book is fab! 1/11
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A Thread on Handwriting… Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are some things I think about now that I didn’t always consider before…
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Too 4 dystopian short stories for Y9 please. My choice is ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. Stories by wider range of voices particularly welcome. Thank you – at Huyton-with-Roby, England
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Last proper day of half-term tomorrow... and have spent the evening watching trash TV and working out grade spread ready for mock exam series. (Fine grades by me - only full papers/ full GCSE are from AQA) I have some thoughts on this below, if you're interested in a little 🧵
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Douglas Wise@DoWise14 Oct 2023
A booklet of extracts from the British Library website to help students explore the context of Romeo and Juliet douglaswise.co.uk/context-ro… Each bit contains a hyperlink to the original article and two questions for discussion #TeamEnglish
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Douglas Wise@DoWise11 Oct 2023
A one-page target sheet to help students improve the quality of their analytical writing based around a Think, Do, Use model >> douglaswise.co.uk/target-tic…
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How to create a project tracker in Google Sheets. 🤓
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Douglas Wise@DoWise7 Sep 2023
Played around with different sentence structures today with my new Y7 class - was a joy to share work at the end
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If we accept that climate change isn't real, breXit is a good thing and the right wing should have free speech but we shouldn't, can someone explain to me why everything is still shit?
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I’ve just completed a school wide reading audit thanks to this free tool! This link is valid until Monday May 29th and I couldn’t recommend it enough 📚 login.schoolimprovementsolut…
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theguardian.com/business/202…
Banking firm that owns Southern Water posts record profits

Banking firm that owns Southern Water posts record profits

Macquarie’s net profit is up 10% with its top commodity trader landing A$58m through profit-share deal

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New SLT problem: impact in literacy, specifically whole school reading. Had my feedback from a trust review and it was mostly positive, but they wanted to see clearer impact. Has anyone got any feedback or link with me to share good practice? @FunkyPedagogy @Team_English1
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