Lucy Brook

My #10percentbraver moment paid off! From September I’ll be Curriculum Lead for English at my current school 😊

1st revision booklet written.💪Interesting going through mark-schemes (1st time teaching exam AIC in 8yrs) + seeing mostly, tier 2, vocab. Of course, mark-schemes are aimed at adults but concepts underpinning words need to be taught. For 2nd lang learners, there's a lot of vocab.

A summary of advice from Chief Examiner reports on GCSE English Language douglaswise.co.uk/blog/chief-exa… 📄

A list of techniques that students can use in their transactional writing. Designed to be stuck into books for reference douglaswise.co.uk/blog/transacti… 📝

@JennyDavies74 @NATEfeed @TeachEnglishLit @EnglishAssoc We ditched AQA two years ago for this exact reason. Our Y13s will sit Pearson for the first time this Summer. So far we’ve been happy with it! We chose it based on lots of other local schools doing that spec so we could moderate.

@TeachEnglishLit @EnglishAssoc @NATEfeed We've decided to jump ship from AQA for A'Level Lit. The marking is too unreliable. We have narrowed it down to OCR of Pearson Edexcel. Anyone have any comments on reliability of marking for these boards, please? We take kids with 5s up.

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

NEW RESOURCE: 3 lessons to guide a re-read of ‘An Inspector Calls’. Useful for revision/post mock exam work. May support some initial teaching of the text too. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! @Team_English1 dropbox.com/scl/fo/ppl8d76…

NEW An Inspector Calls 23-lesson scheme for 2026 - the old one was from 2022 (!) and it was a bit outdated so I've re-done it and now it looks like all my others :) I've put it in my google drive & popped a link here - hope it helps someone! drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Writer's Toolkit - Priestley - An Inspector Calls - Methods and devices for higher conceptual thinking! #AIC #engchat #teamenglish #gcseliterature #aninspectorcalls

@LeadPracEnglish Here’s a folder with 8 x specimen AQA style Lang paper 1s I have made and updated to reflect the changes for 2026 onwards, accompanied by PPT slide decks. Help yourself if the resources might be of use 😊 dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qgdc…

Made an exam-style Language P1 based off this gorgeous extract I read in ‘The Nightingale’. First time making a paper in the new style. Not sure on the Q4 - suggestions welcome! DM for the link if useful🙂 #TeamEnglish

🚨 NEW LANG P1 PACK - FREE 8 AQA Papers modified for the new specification - but formatted the same as how the papers will look. Here > #new-language-paper-1-booklet-2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#new… Hope it's useful.

INTERNATIONAL ONLY GIVEAWAY ❤️‍🔥 I got an extra signed insert, as a previous international Swiftie, I understand how frustrating it is to miss out on these stuff. So here’s my way of giving back to the community! No need to follow me, just repost so it can reach more people🫶🏻

@LuMarTeach @LitdriveUK @LauraLolder @Xris32 We have! Happy to help!

@LitdriveUK is there anyone out there who has experience of requesting re-marks for pupils’ scripts? I am hearing conflicting information and don’t want to waste my students’ money so would really appreciate asking a quick question. @LauraLolder @Xris32 could I ask you? Ty!

🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process. 👊 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

Come join meeee! eteach.com/job/teacher-of…

@charliersmith1 Sending you lots of love 💜 My 3yo finding out that dogs aren’t big fans of hairbands!

This feels very hard to write, but earlier I tried to end my life. I’m currently in hospital, awaiting assessment, not sure what the future holds. If anyone has any pet pics (or other cute pics), I’d really appreciate the distraction ❤️

FREE AQA English Language Paper 1 and 2 2026 resources: P1: englishgcse.co.uk/search?type=pr… P2: englishgcse.co.uk/search?type=pr… #teamenglish #edutwitter #teachertwitter #gcses #gcses2026 #gcses2025 #aqa #english #language #teacher #teach #teaching #teachers #school #gcses #revision #revise

Aqa style paper One : 5 short extract , question succinct answers , longer answers : questions 2-5 : #TeamEnglish - Will add some more to it - as they are half done . ( we got 5 done in a lesson today but could be used independently ) dropbox.com/scl/fo/hz42t69…

Some literature/language revision lessons I’ve made for the 2025 exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit - help yourselves! @Team_English1 dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6lu3…

A set of review sheets for each act of An Inspector Calls douglaswise.co.uk/blog/act-by-ac… 🔎