Julia Murphy

This is what summer holidays are all about! 5 days in, novel no.3 underway. #glebersarereaders

New Blog Post: Following on the the @ClassroomWonder webinar on using writing to support reading last week, here's a video & discussion of Emily Fleming's remarkable classroom at @goldsmithwalsal. Such strong teaching! And she's a first year teacher!! teachlikeachampion.org/blog/using-wri…

Hi @Team_English1 could I please get some feedback on our new assessment model for KS3 following a rejig - I’ve mainly used @DavidDidau’s text as a guide. Any feedback would be very helpful! ☺️ @FunkyPedagogy @KateJones_teach @m_chiles @GauravDubay3 @LauraLolder

If you've read the fabulous Teach Like A Champion 3.0 @Doug_Lemov's 63 wonderful strategies to choose from to enhance your teaching, here's a summary! Thanks @AndrewWatsonTTB -in the folder there's one with a blank 'Do This' column for you to fill in. tinyurl.com/3pxwccep

I've had a lot of visitors - and many reach out online - asking what our department do for our weekly Reading Lesson in English @TrinityAcademyL. We have a co-curricular reading programme, with a booklet each term that complements the concepts we teach in our main units. /1

🔗 Useful link 🔗 This informative and detailed blog post from @FunkyPedagogy explores grammar in the poem 'Checkin Out Me History' by John Agard. buff.ly/3Z4bHaY 🔗

At @TrinityAcademyL, many students arrive with a reading age well below their chronological age. For lots (though, not all) of these students they arrive at secondary school unable to fluently and accurately decode. This is their reading barrier, which needs to be /1

✅️Rich, ambitious academic language permeating throughout as a step change from KS3. ✅️A focus on the need to know, not neat to know. #Year4 #TheBestIsYetToCome /3

Super proud and privileged to have mentored this excellent teacher. @hazeleyacademy is lucky to have you! Thank you for inviting me to your graduation 🎓

🔉GIVEAWAY🔉 With 'Teaching Hacks' now available, I want to give away one free copy! Simply follow and RT to be entered. Drawn 29/06!

A competition to mark #DDay80. My children's book - D-DAY DOG - is the story of parachuting dog, Glen, and his handler, Emile. I'm giving away 5 signed copies. Please RT to compete. By 31 May. 5 individual winners. Thank you. #giveaway #competition tompalmer.co.uk/dday-dog/

Looking forward to ending our Dystopian/Giver study with a 'Roll Your Own' creative writing competition tomorrow! Such engagement and progress with this topic, so looking forward to seeing what is created across Year 8! ⚠️

The absolute go to place for all literacy coordinator/ enthusiasts - I use this every year to plan ahead. I wish I could do it all but this allows me to pick what’s important to my setting @LauraCurranBun @AVisserFuray @LiteracyNetwor1

📚POST! 📚 As we approach exams (!), here's something that will help... How I teach EVERY essay introduction for AQA English Literature. Every. Single. One. codexterous.home.blog/2022/03/20/per…

It's been a while since I shared anything so here goes... A series of short 'Do Now' tasks based on exploring multiple interpretations in 'A Christmas Carol'. Instructions are in the PPT... a quick and easy way of exploring different readings of characters and quotations. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! @Team_English1 dropbox.com/scl/fo/btapmbf…

📚POST!📚 A step by step guide to teaching poetry. Loads of ideas and practical strategies to try out in your own classroom codexterous.home.blog/2021/04/04/tea…

Revising with Y11? Here is a suggested approach, one I have used successfully for some time. Not saying it's the only approach, or the right one. Do what works for you, of course but...if you want a direction... (& resources included for @Team_English1) laurawebbcpd.com/2024/04/06/a-c…

I'll be doing Rhetoric with my Y8 after Easter. As always, standing on the shoulders of giants inc. @SaysMiss's @OakNational SoW, I've collated this anthology 👇 Links to video clips where they exist below dropbox.com/s/19c2rgvci0i3…