Sarah Francis

If anyone wanted to download my Word Class Cheat Sheet, I've popped a link below. dropbox.com/sh/9rd2ub5wd8a… @Team_English1 @TabithaMayhead twitter.com/MissSRLawrence…

@EngLangBlog One of my lovely colleagues went to the face-to-face launch & stressed how phenomenal it was. This, plus the @LexisPodcast episodes on Lang and Gender, have helped me plan some (hopefully) cracking lessons on more modern research regarding gender! Thank you so much!

Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up. I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists. Here's how:

Publication day tomorrow! If you’d like a free signed copy, retweet this and I’ll pick one out at random at 9:00am UK time on Thursday 12th Oct! #BookGiveaway #YoureAllTalk scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/…

Some September stats here at Hardenhuish: Library loans: 792 (715 of which were fiction) Library lessons: 43 Books re-catalogued onto the system: 900 (up to 2218 in total) And our most borrowed book was...Heartstopper Volume 1!

Can anyone recommend any reading/people to follow about pushing the most able to achieve?

@lcpalmerpoet needs our stories of games students have played… He knows mine well. An invisible ball thrown around my classroom - one that shifted size - but one that I wasn’t allowed to catch. Can’t decide if it’s the lowest point or highest point in my teaching career…

#teachers of #teachertwitter. Now that the end's in sight and there's room to breathe, I need your help. What are the best games that your students played this year? The ones they knew the rules to and you didn't. The ones that made you laugh (especially if they shouldn't.)

@NooPuddles I'm currently building a TWIB SOW from scratch too! Happy to share resources & collaborate. Mine's for Y8 and we're using it as the basis of a recreative piece of writing, rather than a reading assessment.

Hey #TeamEnglish! I’m about to write a new scheme of work for The Woman in Black. Does anyone have any resources they’d be willing to share please? Thanks in advance!

A bumper book group meeting today, not only sampling our selection of contemporary novels for term 6 but also getting the opportunity to grab @FleurHitchcock and @simonjamesgreen titles in preparation for their Lit Fest visits next week!

Plea for help! I marked the Rosabel Language Paper a few years back but lost my standardised scripts for Q3. Anyone got them knocking about? @Team_English1

@EnglishMajer Of course!

@MissSRLawrence @EngMediaCentre Hi are you willing to share this? I can swap some Child Language resources in return 😄

Spending the morning planning some Language Discourse lessons for Year 13 and recent training from @EngMediaCentre has made it a whole load easier!

@trainteachgrow @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 Of course! Send me your email and I’ll try to pop a load of CLA stuff in a folder.

@trainteachgrow @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 We ended up doing that yesterday afternoon, actually! Mine struggle to balance the two AOs and lean heavily on learned knowledge. Happy to share if you send me your email address ☺️

2 years in a row, I've had to pick up Y13s mid-way through the year & have never taught Child Language Acquisition from the start. This means I'm always wobbly with writing my own essays. I've written this response to AQA's Nov. '20 paper. Any advice? @EngLangBlog @Team_English1

@JessNaylor8 @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 Of course you can! Send over your email address. I will have a look what I’ve got for Q5. Not written full responses as the majority of mine won’t even considered doing the written English question.

@MissSRLawrence @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 I don’t suppose that I can pinch this. I have had to take on A level Language by myself and feel so out of my depth! I don’t suppose that you’ve done any for Q5 too? Any guidance/support would be appreciated.

@AlegnaBrown @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 That helps loads. Thank you so much.

@MissSRLawrence @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 2/2 a little added on, so it reads as formulaic. I might suggest integrating the theorist ideas into the point so you can test them with the data set. That way you stick to the argument securely. This aspects becomes a bit loser. Hope this helps ..

@42buckley @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 It’s really tricky isn’t it? I find deciphering the question & then analysing the dataset such a big task for 30 marks.

@MissSRLawrence @EngLangBlog @Team_English1 I’ve picked up a group this year too and it’s not my strength. ☹️

@MissWrightEngl1 @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 We normally do a speech on a current issue that they spend a term’s worth of homework researching and writing about but feels like a big commitment in a year when our time is really limited!

@MissSRLawrence @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 Out of interest how do you conduct them? Do you all insist (encourage) an individual speech or do any of you allow students to use talks, debates and dialogue etc as mentioned in the spec.

Does anyone know if @AQAEnglish are returning to typical Spoken Language Endorsement requirements for this year? Do we need to record pieces? Do we need audiences bigger than one? Can’t see any confirmation anywhere! @Team_English1

@SusanSEnglish @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 Thank you so much!

@MissSRLawrence @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 It's all back to pre Covid expectations. So, audience, recorded etc.