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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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This is fantastic @Mathew_Lynch44 🐝
Matt Lynch (@Mathew_Lynch44) profile pictureMatt Lynch@Mathew_Lynch4415 Dec 2018
Replying to @LitdriveUK
@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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Replying to @MissShakesparke
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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@Trump_ton24 Jul 2023
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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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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For this next exam series for @Team_English1 I've created a series of mini mini (!) mocks (A5 size!) for a range of skills which I plan to target with my students. These include FIFTEEN P2Q4, P1Q2 linked to a P1Q5, and a P2Q2 linked to a P2Q5. To download for free, visit (1/4)
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Don’t come by boat, would be my advice
Michael Johnson (@MJGold) profile pictureMichael Johnson@MJGold10 Mar 2023
What the hell is happening? Do I need to get on a plane and come over there? WTF?!
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MrsElled2@MrsElled29 Mar 2023
Departmental CPD this week was this beaut from @FunkyPedagogy Provoked lots of interesting conversations. It’s highlighted that we don’t do enough explicit grammar teaching. Does anybody have a grammar sequencing map for Yrs7-11 to share as an example? @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK
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