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Bringing heart into English Language I thoroughly enjoy reading Chris Curtis’s blogs on creative writing. They’re packed full of...

‘We must ensure that we hand down our great literary heritage to our pupils, explicitly and carefully, so that even the most...

‘Curriculum, ultimately, is (metaphorically) a narrative, a journey, a conversation… a development of meaning over time. Our overarching...

‘Time is finite, and so curriculum can never include all the knowledge, or anything close to all the knowledge in the field. As such,...

GCSE English literature: a head-scratching conundrum As English teachers, we repeatedly grapple with the complexity of the literature...

Too many students revise ineffectively or not at all, which is a source of huge frustration for teachers and parents. We might assume...

How to prioritise knowledge when creating a GCSE English Literature unit plan ‘Memorable knowledge is the best route to academic...

In Part 1 of this two-part blog series, I explored these four advantages of booklets: They avoid duplication in planning and reduce...

Booklets are, in my view, simply brilliant. The concept of the booklet is a simple one, yet the impact of their use in the classroom can...

As explored in my previous blog posts here, writing in any subject is an extremely complex task, and one that we must break down into...

‘Athletes, architects, artists, playwrights, chefs, physicians, lawyers, and members of countless other professions rely on plans to...

‘A sentence is a complex and powerful thing, the mastery of which is often overlooked.’ (Doug Lemov: https://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/...

One of the key principles of Hochman and Wexler's 'The Writing Revolution' is that sentences are the building blocks of all writing. Even...

In the first post of this series, I explained how I came across 'The Writing Revolution' and its key principles. This post will look at...

Like many other English teachers across the country, I have often agonised over how to demystify and break down the ever-complex process...