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Parents, here’s what to look for on school visits

Originally published : TES 20.09.2019 Visiting prospective schools is an important process for parents and carers, but it can be an overwhelming

Click here to access a booklet that contains extracts from seven essays I’ve taken from the excellent British Library website.

Click here to access a list of freely available video resources to support the teaching of the texts below: Macbeth

To help students understand the subtle differences between a group of connected words – verbs in this case – it’s

Click here to access a PDF copy of the resource (much easier to view). Click here to access a Word document

Fundamentally, all of us are prone to making what are called ‘cognitive errors’ – lapses in logical, rational thinking. And

GCSE results and linked progress scores for individual classes are unreliable proxies for judging teacher effectiveness. It’s tempting to think

I’ve nearly finished my third year as an Assistant Headteacher, having taken on the role in 2016 after a six

Click here to access a review booklet for four GCSE English Literature components: Macbeth The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll

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Click here to access a scanned copy of all the resources I’ve written about below. Viewed together, as a sort