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Heads of Department/SLT What do you do for pupils who have missed lessons due to being absent? Do you give extra work, catch up work, direct them somewhere etc? What does it look like? Would appreciate RTs for a wider range 👍

@joel120193 Currently on this thinking pattern. We don’t use booklets. As English, it just feels messy. If pertinent we could copy our ‘We do’ response but if that’s all it took for a kid to learn, we wouldn’t have a job. Our attendance isn’t good!

NEW Most students can spot a metaphor. Few can define one. Teach tenor, vehicle and ground. Metaphor is transport: the vehicle carries the tenor across the ground. Stop device-spotting. Start explaining how the image reshapes the idea and why it matters. Link to follow...

I’ve created snappy checklists for the following- ✅ Behaviour for Learning ✅ Inclusive Teaching ✅ Accessible Content ✅ CPD Engagement ✅ Literacy Boost ✅ Teacher Wellbeing ✅ Equity in the Classroom ✅ TA Empowerment ✅ Leadership for Learning ✅ Adaptive Teaching ✅ Classroom Climate ✅ Professional Conversations And more…! Hit like or Repost if you’d like copies!

@rrobinson72 @peepaltreepress Love!

Shall I keep this one for the New and Selected . Let me know if it’s a yay or nay. This poem is from the book The Butterfly Hotel on @peepaltreepress #newandselected #monarchbutterfly #thebutterflyhotel

What’s the worst thing every secondary English teacher has to teach and why is it English Language paper 2?

@TeachEnglishLit @RachelPiXL @ThePiXLNetwork @Team_English1 Can I have a preview of what type of things you cover please?

The next step in developing disciplinary literacy was made today - making sure the directors of subjects are fully informed and equipped I also borrowed an idea from @RachelPiXL - time to think to make the change needed ☺️ thank you @ThePiXLNetwork @Team_English1

Whenever I hear people repeat the received opinion that the witchcraft trials were all about men suppressing powerful, educated, or outspoken women/midwives, I think of the Pendle witch trials and sigh. 😕 😞

This breaks me open every time.

“I can see his winky” isn’t something I thought I’d hear my kid say watching the #OpeningCeremony 😅😅

@Mrkjenkins22 @DoWise Amazing! Well done!

Gained time spent well 💪 A 64-page booklet for ‘Twisted Tales’ all ready for Sept. Thanks to @DoWise for the text titles - such gripping stories!! This is my first scheme where the content is all my own creation and ngl I feel like a published author 😅

Alfie Hewett, a #Wimbledon singles champion at last 👏🥹 #Wimbledon | @alfiehewett6

TikTok Oscar for Best Film 😭😂 #SATC

📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 This extended CPD session from @funkypedagogy explores how to teach writing with a focus on academic writing. 🐝 Find it here: buff.ly/4czxKgP #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1

I have long been of the opinion that the last two weeks of the summer term for school leaders feel like violently re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere: holding on for dear life and hoping you land in one piece.

Another resource in one of four sub folders. 📂 This is a resource-heavy session, with lots of bits I've not got around to sharing before. ✅ This one follows on from my recent thread on quotations. 🦴 Session one week today 🚨 @Team_English1 bit.ly/3L49veB

@hollieteaches How have you worked this magic?

So impressed with the improvement in this child’s handwriting over the last month ☺️

It’s because weight loss advice is based on studies conducted on men, not woman. Weight loss hasn’t ever been studied in women on any large scale because minor research that has been done all leads to the same key point - hormones. As soon as female hormones come up in a study, they rarely continue researching. It’s deemed too complicated and expensive so they ignore it and throw male orientated advice at women knowing full well that it doesn’t work on them. Science knows little about female bodies. This isn't controversial to say, nor is it a 'theory'. This is very widely known and accurate. No one wants to actually fund research on female bodies, the research is deemed 'done' because it's been 'done' on men.

@hoke_mosely This is amazing! I’d love to know how you made it.

I met a random man in the woods once. I was 11. Walking with my best friend. A guy around 25 yo was standing by a tree. Even at 11 we knew to avoid strange men. We took the path furthest from him. He saw us and yelled "hey, you're fine AF, wanna make out?" I said no. 1/2