Emma Walkey-Williams

What primary & secondary school leaders need to know about effective writing transition Writing transition isn’t a baton pass where primary hands over and secondary drops it. It’s a compatibility problem. Primary writing rewards expression, description and voice. Secondary writing demands clarity, explanation and disciplinary argument. Same word. Different conceptions. open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

dropbox.com/scl/fo/ay62jld… 2 sets of things for collapse : ACC and Macbeth - used as LANG texts for AQA paper1 . Word doc for kids , html for teacher . #TeamEnglish might just turn the html to powerpts at some stage

dropbox.com/scl/fo/8pkr2k9… Technical accuracy booklet with self marking key - based on acc , AIC and other lit texts . Prob suitable for revision or homework - there’s a powerpt for display of answers - #TeamEnglish

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NEW: for AQA Lang P1 June 2026 onwards ✅ Rebecca Complete specimen paper and PPT slide deck with scaffolds, indicative content, student activities and model answers, like so 👇 Help yourself #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/6amw3el…

susansenglish.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/why… New blog about teaching PAPER 2 Language with resources. Hopefully, it's useful @Team_English1 @AQAEnglish

@EnglishandLaw45 dropbox.com/scl/fi/74ujhup…

The 3rd season of the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast discussed literacy + the science of learning.📖 Now, hear from the hosts in a webinar on Feb. 5th! Participants can submit questions for @dylanwiliam, @Doug_Lemov, and @natwexler in advance. 💻Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

@RoyalMail Shocking service from you as usual. Tracked item didn’t arrive - no red card left as delivery WAS NOT ATTEMPTED and I am not able to collect medication as I don’t have a red card! Item not even put out for redelivery today as it should have been and you can’t help!!

I observed a lesson in a school last week where they were revising Macbeth and it reminded me of this lecture I once gave to students aiming for a grade 7-9 in English Lit @FgcsInfo on Macbeth and Kingship (Ideas ‘magpied’ from everywhere). Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

*NEW* Lang P1 for AQA June 2026 onwards ✅ Orwell’s 1984 Specimen paper and PPT slide deck with scaffolds and model answers. Repost and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/ttfnpmt…

Inspired by the amazing @sarfern and her work on academic writing! I can't help but to make a knowledge organiser!!! PDF here if it's useful to anyone - drive.google.com/file/d/17GlhoL…

Weekly Quote posters! ACC, AIC & R&J Looking at the layers of quotes. I’m going to be placing these once a week on TEAMS. 🔗🔗 below.

*NEW* Here’s another practice AQA style Lang P1, using an extract from Dracula (I know it’s 19thC but it’s good!) like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qgdc…

New Blog on Interventions for Reading Paper 1 @AQAEnglish to show students (hopefully) how to be perceptive - susansenglish.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/why… @Team_English1 Hope this is useful? Resources included too.

I have uploaded some An Inspector Calls character revision sessions to my Google drive. So far there is one on Mr B, Mrs B and Sheila, but I’ll be adding to these weekly as I plan my revision sessions. Each one is designed to last 30mins. Feel free to use them! 😊 (link below)

🚨 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.

Revision booklet made for senior pupils with concrete examples of methods to help improve memory and explanations on how learning happens. Drew on lots of examples posted on here so really appreciate people who have shared these!!

Here is a summary of the AQA Literature Exam Reports for 2025. Hope these are useful @Team_English1 susansenglish.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/why…

susansenglish.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/why… Here is the English Language Summary of both Paper 1 and Paper 2 2025 exam reports for AQA if useful. @Team_English1