*NEW* for AQA Lang P1 from June 2026 onwards: ✅ The Day of the Triffids Specimen paper and a PPT slide deck with resources, scaffolds and model answers, like so 👇 Repost and help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
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Teacher 28 yrs inc. 10 yr stint as HoF. North Mancs regional advocate for Litdrive. Teaching, tennis, books, Egypt. Views my own. #teamenglish 🏳️🌈
*NEW* for AQA English Language Paper 1 from June 2026 onwards: ✅ The Woman in Black Specimen paper and accompanying PPT slide deck with resources, scaffolds and model responses, like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qu9to...
13 Eng Lang Paper 1 exam papers: ✅ The Landlady ✅ The Silent Patient ✅ White Fang ✅ The Monkey’s Paw ✅ King of the Castle ✅ Enduring Love ✅ Dracula ✅ To Kill a Mockingbird ✅ Hound of Baskervilles ✅ War of the Worlds ✅ The Pearl ✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping ✅ The Birds www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
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NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes: ✅ Enduring Love ✅ Hound of the Baskervilles ✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping ✅To Kill a Mockingbird Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
NEW* for AQA: English Lang & Lit mock exam trackers, using June 2025 boundaries and RAG rating for QLA, for each paper like so 👇 Repost and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f3mf7...
*NEW* for AQA: 2026 English Language & Literature exam date posters, like these 👇 There’s 23 in the folder covering most set texts. Repost and help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sp8bi...
*NEW* for 2026 onwards: updated and some brand new specimen AQA Lang P2s with accompanying PPT slide decks to support teaching. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...
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@matt-lynch.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social Using Matt's excellent resources and playing around with the new AQA 2026 Lang 1 format. DM me any edit suggestions/feedback and will update as I go along! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qivo4...
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To reflect changes to AQA GCSE English Lang P2 for 2026 onwards, here’s a folder of 10 specimen papers. Help yourself and please re-post to reach a wider audience. Thanks 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...
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Given that Altar Mitty likes joining a new branch of religion every five minutes, maybe he should become a Buddhist next and learn all about Karma.
AQA GCSE English Lang P1 and 2 changes announced today - first examined June 2026. Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
NEW for AQA Lang P1: for use with ‘The Silent Patient’. A set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds, like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/syara...
A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.
*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
Why can’t OFSTED just use 2 descriptors: ‘Secure’ and ‘Support Required’ ?
Revision checklists for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/revisio... Designed to help guide revision, so will need a bit of elaboration ✅
*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
NEW BLOG: Booklets for GCSE English Language and Literature. More to follow. learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/book...
Booklets for GCSE English and English Literature
Over the past few years, we have been working on how we can use booklets effectively. With Literature texts, there is so much you can do. Th...
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Does your study skills curriculum work?' "Do pupils need to know about ‘working memory’ or ‘procrastination’? Will a ‘study skills curriculum’, or a revision programme, really make a vital difference?" alexquigley.co.uk/does-your-st...
Does your study skills curriculum work?
Do pupils need to know about ‘working memory’ or ‘procrastination’? Will a ‘study skills curriculum’, or a revision programme, really make a vital difference? Each year it is common to see annual pla...
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A big danger of prescriptive lessons is that the success indicator becomes the degree of consistency over experiences and outcomes.
And this is great. We’ve been discussing the prescriptive nature of scripted lessons that one hasn’t had any input into.
Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!
📢 App Version 1.90 is rolling out now (1/11) This release is focused on personal moderation controls, and includes a lot of new tools for reducing unwanted attention! Open this thread for more details. 👀
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...
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