Summer is the perfect time to catch up on the reading you haven’t found time for during the beginning of the year. Sometimes it can be hard to decide from all the fantastic books that are out there and to give you some inspiration we have put together a list of what the English team […]
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While most know it as ‘DEAR time’, I would be inclined to refer to this Literacy initiative as Role Modelling Reading. Though the focus is on the students reading, my belief is that it is what the adults around them are doing that will really make DEAR time effectual. It was during my role […]
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Written by lexicographer Roz Combley There’s nothing like the real thing I was recently lucky enough to analyse the Oxford Corpus, a 55-million-word collection of children’s writing from the BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words story competition. Any lexicographer will tell you that once you’ve worked with a corpus—a wonderfully powerful resource of real language evidence—you […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
Read moreI do not doubt that there are a variety of highly effective purchasable Literacy intervention packages that will support students in making ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ gains beyond any ‘natural’ progress they might make without them. I have bought into many of these packages and, over the recent years, I have gone on to recommend […]
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Our regular blog author, Jill Carter, has prepared some revision tips and advice for your students – pass it on! You have two English Literature exams so get clear about what each of these requires. Look for patterns so you can prepare more effectively for both. For both exams, you will need to be able […]
Read moreOur regular blog author, Jill Carter, has prepared some revision tips and advice for your students – pass it on! You have two English Literature exams so get clear about what each of these requires. Look for patterns so you can prepare more effectively for both. For both exams, you will need to be […]
Read moreOur regular blog author, Jill Carter, has prepared some revision tips and advice for your students – pass it on! You have two English Language exams so get clear about what each of these requires. Look for patterns so you can prepare more effectively for both. For both exams, you will need to be able […]
Read moreOur regular blog author, Jill Carter, has prepared some revision tips and advice for your students – pass it on! You have two English Language exams so get clear about what each of these requires. Look for patterns so you can prepare more effectively for both. For both exams, you will need to be able […]
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