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Improving Reading – a whole school approach

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020Oxford English Team

If you’re new to the role of literacy lead, or just have an interest in approaching Literacy across the school I’d strongly advise beginning your journey with vocabulary – I have written two blogs on this (links below). It makes sense that before students can access texts, we teach them how to access words, and […]

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The educational challenges for students when they return to school

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020Oxford English Team
Getting back to the classroom

Geoff Barton outlines the discussion that took place during a recent ASCL webinar on the educational challenges facing students when they return to school.

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Bubbly Year 10 pod return to the classroom!

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020Oxford Science Team

So, we are now in July, and according to the government, we are through the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and life is beginning to break out of lockdown.  We have had about a quarter of the calendar year and more than ten teaching weeks away from our classrooms and we are starting to welcome […]

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Language teaching in September – what might it look like?

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team 2 Comments
Teacher listening in classrooom

Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar (‘Learning to doubt is learning to think’). -Octavio Paz In March this year, school life as we know it shuddered to a halt, and as we write, when and under what guise it will fully return remains unclear. Over the past few months, teachers and students will have […]

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Antibodies and the coronacoaster: one science teacher’s personal insights into C-19 testing and the science behind it

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020Oxford Science Team
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I’m on the “coronacoaster”: one minute I’m up and the next I’m down – it’s an emotional rollercoaster.  Most of the time, I feel like it’s all fine and we are just in a new normal, but in the blink of an eye, I’m flying by the seat of my pants, heading down with the […]

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Keeping it simple but meaningful during school closures

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020Oxford Science Team
Teacher listening in classrooom

Head of Biology Amelia Kyriakides discusses the ways in which her department has adapted to home learning and how the strategies they’ve developed will continue to benefit her GCSE cohorts on their return to school. For many of us, adapting for home learning meant rapidly rethinking lesson planning. Quick decisions needed to be made based […]

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Looking forward to the return to school

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment
Teacher listening in classrooom

I think if there’s something that the partial school closures have taught me it’s about the aspects of the job that I take for granted. It’s easy to forget the enjoyment of actually being in the classroom, especially on really busy days with back to back lessons. There’s even something to be said about being […]

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The COVID-19 Recovery Curriculum – Dr Andrew Chandler-Grevatt

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020Oxford Science Team
Student studying from home

Teachers have had to respond to the challenge of the school closures due to COVID-19. Just as we are getting used to a ‘new normal,’ we are having to adapt to the uncertainty and difficulty of the recovery period. Despite our best efforts to deliver our existing curricula, its impact will be greatly variable for […]

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Talking to children about their reading

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020Oxford English Team
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Award-winning children’s author Christopher Edge shares strategies for talking to children about their reading Books can help children and young adults to make sense of the world, provide an escape from it and maybe, one day, inspire them to build a better one, so in these strange times, making space for reading in their lives […]

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5 fun things to do with grammar on lockdown – Martha O’Dell

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020Oxford English Team
grammar in lockdown

While the lockdown could potentially be a perfect time to brush up on grammar, worksheets can be rather dry and uninspiring. Try these activities with lower KS3 to get them engaging with grammar. 1. Adjective treasure hunt Pupils conduct a treasure hunt where they have to collect items from around the house which embody particular […]

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