Loved the day at @litdrive.bsky.social yesterday. Can’t wait to take all the new ideas into school next week! 🐝📚
Kirsty B
@kbradd.bsky.social
Head of English, devout bookworm and musical theatre enthusiast. NPQLL. View and thoughts all my own.
Just watched one of the best Shakespeare performances ever. Oh, and saw Jonathan Bailey 😍😍😍😍
Tomorrow I hand in the manuscript for a book I’ve been working on before I even knew it would be a book. I’ve been collecting leadership quadrants for years and now they are going to be in this book (the greatest hits anyway!!). Out in June, pre orders TBC! Thank you @johncattedu.bsky.social
Might be behind on the game here, but this podcast is a fantastic performance of AIC. Will definitely be using alongside our upcoming read of the play for a quality experience.
🚨🚨 NEW TODAY For the last 18 months, I've been working on a top secret documentary to capture & deconstruct some of best teaching in UK. Why We Made It & How To Access It (For Free): ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ0...
(Why And How) We Made A Documentary Unpacking Great Teaching
YouTube video by Peps Mccrea
youtube.com
“Familiarity breeds confidence. Unless we look at ways to make texts more familiar, then we are always going to struggle.” #EnglishTeaching ⬇️
Chris Curtis @xris32.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW BLOG: An Inspector Recalls learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-i...
My new groups for EmpowerHER have been so great already this week. We all swapped answers using the quiz-trade sheet and discussed Florence Given as an inspirational voice. 💕
Simon Armitage is the Anti-Cunk here, talking with experts about unicorns. I admit, a certain amount of contextual knowledge is needed to get that! C.f. Philomena. 14 minutes of delightful wondering & enlightenment. #poetry #radio #animals #naturewriting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - My Poetry and Other Animals, Unicorns and Dragons
The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage looks for mythical beasts to inspire a new animal poem.
bbc.co.uk
It would be interesting to ask these schools a set of questions. To start…. Do you have a 2 or 3 year GCSE? Do you set for English/maths? What % of staff are specialist teachers in the subject they teach? What’s your hw policy? How many hours do you give subjects? School day hours? What else?
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71.bsky.social · 2y agoThese are the schools with the top 20 P8 scores- creating incredible environments for children. Thank god for what they do.
Okay. Talk to me about cold/warm reads of lit texts at GCSE. The more my brain marinates around the idea of them, the more I’m like… why have I never done this before? Eager to know experiences and thoughts…. @teamenglish1.bsky.social
I’ve been completely wiped out with the flu this week. The teacher guilt is strong.
#OTD in 1894 English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter J. B. Priestley is born. Explore Priestley's ‘An Inspector Calls’ with Prof. John McRae on MASSOLIT. Prof. McRae explores key historical context before moving on to read the play scene by scene:
Re-establishing yourself in a new school with students is hard, ain’t it?
NEW POST: on English Curriculum and the Spherical Cow... funkypedagogy.com/english-curr...
English Curriculum and 'The Spherical Cow'... | Funky Pedagogy
I do a lot of curriculum work. For quite a while now I’ve been trying to articulate something for myself with little success. This blog post has been invariably a Twitter post, a very long thread, and...
funkypedagogy.com
Intentionally leaving my phone in another room, to avoid distraction, is very hard when you need some kind of authenticator, code, email, activation password to get into any account ever.
Over the moon for my students taking results away today. Always wonderful to see their hard work paying off! ✨📚
I’m convinced every teacher has that one story/example they love to include in lessons where appropriate and relevant. Mine is 100% the Daedalus and Icarus tale. 🪽
Is there any such document/site I can access which compares grades per text/anthology for AQA English Literature? I want to research levels of success per text and not sure where to find the information. Any help appreciated :) 📚
Hello brave new world. We are Teachers Talk Radio.
It's brilliant to see the profession come together to empower each other and network on this platform. We're new to #EduSky and want to build our community. Please introduce yourself in the comments if you are a member.