Business News Quiz – September 2016
A challenging and informative quiz focusing on September's business news Read More
GCSE
Using Pictures to Teach Descriptive Writing and Structural Analysis Skills
A great post on how to make skill development more engaging by using pictures, by guest blogger and teacher Alexandra O'Connor. Read More
Chemical Anniversaries: 1866 – A bigger bang
Peter Ellis explores the life of Alfred Nobel and his groundbreaking invention of Dynamite; explaining in detail the chemistry behind his invention. Read More
Chemical Anniversaries: 1866 – A bigger bang
Peter Ellis explores the life of Alfred Nobel and his groundbreaking invention of Dynamite; explaining in detail the chemistry behind his invention. Read More
Revisiting the text: Teaching the 19th Century Novel
Naomi Hursthouse offers advice on teaching the 19th century novel for the new English Literature GCSE. Read More
Shared Reading for the Whole School
Naomi Hursthouse offers advice on improving drop everything and read so that all students can benefit. Read More
Improving analysis of writing
I don’t know about you, but I have found the AQA English Language, Paper 1, Question 3- commenting on the structure of a text- mighty troublesome this year! As much as I try to help students identify shifts in time, character, location, and find interesting patterns,… Read More
Chemical Anniversaries: 1916 – bonds and dots
Article and activities on the work of Gilbert Lewis. Read More
Teach GCSE Writing through Grammar
Spelling, punctuation and grammar is on the agenda again. Not only do our key stage 2 students have to sit the controversial ‘grammar tests’, but most subjects now need to award marks for SPG at GCSE level. So, we need to help our… Read More
Kloodle: Students and Employability
I recently blogged about a “teachmeet’ event that I attended in Manchester and one of the things I was introduced to here was Kloodle; I felt that this needed a blog of its own. One of the biggest challenges for today’s graduates is making themselves… Read More