The Quotation Bank

Explore @QuotationBank online store; remember, school orders of 30 books or more are 50% off - ALWAYS! If you've never seen The Quotation Bank, thequotationbank.co.uk has interactive samples - here's a look inside Macbeth - b2l.bz/euZqF6 @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK

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🎟️ Tickets for the Litdrive National Conference 2026 will be released this Saturday. Watch this space for full details… but if you want early access to the ticket link, make sure you’re signed up to the Litdrive bulletin. 🐝 Sign up here: buff.ly/SGFeUxI #Litdrive

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📢 Calling Litdrive Members! Help shape Litdrive’s future. Join us to reflect on our journey and co-construct our strategy for future projects. Free tickets for this Litdrive webinar are here: buff.ly/C6QYceb #Litdrive #TeamEnglish

We've had some great new resources uploaded to Litdrive this week. Upload your resources now for a chance to be our featured resource of the week! Thanks so much to all our members who share so generously. buff.ly/V0yBUBc buff.ly/MheehtC #Litdrive #TeamEnglish

@amy_smith117 @Waterstones @BloomsburyEd Congratulations!!!

It is so surreal to go to the @Waterstones website and see this! @BloomsburyEd

🔔 Collaboration opportunity with The Quotation Bank - we want you! 🔔 We have been blown away by the uptake of our Quotation Bank: Exam Revision App for English Literature. Since launch three months ago we now have 2,500 users; schools with whole-school site licences across the UK; and an amazing team building our exciting new web-app version to accompany the mobile app, ready for the summer. But one thing remains our sole focus – pupil outcomes. 👩‍🎓 That’s why we are developing and building the new Quotation Bank Web-App version with teachers and pupils, not excluding them from the process. Our web-app will come with increased functionality and tools, but these should never be an end in themselves. As we build, we want to keep everything simple, and will always ask the same three questions: 1.     Is this tool or function something teachers and pupils have told us they need? 2.     Does this tool or function improve pupil outcomes? 3.     What is the research and evidence base to prove the effectiveness of this tool or function? To that end, we are creating a small focus group of teachers to work with us as we develop the extra tools and functionalities in the web-app version of Quotation Bank: Exam Revision. This will involve two or three online meetings of no more than an hour each over the next few months. Each meeting will focus on what tools and functions we might integrate into the improved web-app; how these will create better outcomes; and how can we test and iterate these tools. We are teachers ourselves, and we love working with other teachers. Whilst we have exciting ideas and evidence for what we could include, we would never be so foolish as to omit teachers and pupils from the building process! These meetings will hopefully be great fun – we will talk literature, talk pedagogy, talk tech, and build something you might actually want to use! If you are interested in being involved and joining our working group, please do get in touch by Weds 25th Feb. It’s not an application, and please do not think “they won’t want to hear from me” – we want to work with a diverse, engaging and varied group, be it published researchers to brand-new NQTs; from seasoned HODs to part-time practitioners. If you have opinions and want to get involved, we’d love to hear from you, even if you can’t commit to a few hours over the next few months. If you’re interested, get in touch – our email address contact@thequotationbank.co.uk, and the app homepage is here: thequotationbank.co.uk/the-quotation-… Kind regards Simon and The Quotation Bank Team #Litdrive #TeamEnglish @LitdriveUK @Team_English1 @Xris32 @SPryke2 @shadylady222 @SaysMiss @NooPuddles @Lit_liverbird @mrs_denglish @Ms_Holyoake

Calling Litdrive members 📣 Help shape our next stage by joining the Litdrive Advisory Board. We especially welcome experienced teachers and those from underrepresented backgrounds. A diverse board helps us better serve the English community. More info: buff.ly/qE2rSrL

RT: We are seeking two further Trustees at LitdriveUK, preferably with a background in one or more of the following: - finance - risk management - communication and marketing Do reach out if you are interested, or to apply, here’s the link: reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/trustee-ro… #Litdrive

I am looking at redesigning our KS3 English Assessments - could anyone provide a rough idea how how you assess at KS3? Additionally, how many summative assessment/ assessment points do you have during the academic year? @Team_English1 #assessments #teaching #english

Got an idea that could help other English teachers? Write for Litdrive! From GCSE texts to curriculum thinking, literacy to leadership — we’d love to hear from you. Learn more: buff.ly/QtDZDiD #Litdrive #TeamEnglish

Fab to see submissions coming in thick and fast! We’d LOVE to hear from you if you have a session in mind that will support subject leadership, subject knowledge, and English teaching in classrooms. If you haven’t spoken at a conference before, PLEASE don’t let that put you off.

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Sign up today to be a speaker at the next Litdrive National Conference on 11th July at Aston University. You don’t need to have spoken at any events before, just come armed with a great idea for the English classroom! Sign up here: buff.ly/qBqDO92

Really looking forward to this discussion, as for me, members inform everything that Litdrive offers and contributes to the sector. Please do join us if you are an English teacher and invested in the future of collaboration in knowledge and expertise for teaching the subject.