Amy Staniforth

@teachals.bsky.social

English teacher. Vice Principal for Quality of Education. All views my own. ‘Ready to Teach’ Macbeth/ ACC and ‘100 for 100’ Macbeth: tiny.cc/9uspuz

When I start teaching unseen poetry, I almost always start with the wonderful 'Ode to Simon Armitage'. I love it's message, and how well the students engage with it. I turned this into a one-pager for a lesson on Friday - with many thanks to @SPryke2 for many of the approaches! tiny.cc/axe1001

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In the Hall at lunchtime we display a PPT: school events, clubs, news, weather etc. We also show things to prompt convos - dingbats, jokes, facts... I'm sharing 100 days' worth here in case they are of use to anyone else! Please feel free to use/ chuck/ change! tinyurl.com/ae6p2r7c

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Hello edu-Bluesky! 👋 For those of you thinking about what’s coming up this week, here’s a thread I wrote last year about GCSE results data… This is an overview of what I do when I get my data in… 👇

Here’s another old blog of mine. This is my most read and was originally published during lockdown. Lots of people engaged with it positively at the time and lots hated it. Was just rereading and reflecting. Does some of this still chime true? englishteachersnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/teac...

Teachers are not who they have been made out to be

Our profession has a PR problem. A BIG one. I won’t go into why here. That’s for another time. If this lockdown has taught me anything th...

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