Kate McCabe

Definitely feeling it now, looking at bags of clothes in bin bags!

Who moves house the weekend before term starts…? Er, no one with any sense.

Great post. Lots of excellent reflection here.

Yes I did this once for the NEA in English. Made students read examples of Marxist, Feminist, Post-Colonial extracts and present to class what they noticed. Needs embedding across all subjects. I’m worried about too much variability at A Level.

Thanks Chris. We do this across 8+ periods per fortnight, fully supervised and silent, but it hasn’t had the desired impact. Need to look at the quality of work being set, done etc.

Really helpful and I agree with so much of this. I need to get tchrs to set more independent work that does not need marking. There is such an avoidance of this and an expectation that they should just do it themselves.

No, that’s all really helpful and voices a number of things rumbling around in my head. I think structure and expectations of students in lessons is key.

Yes we have assembly, weekly and tutor time 2 times a week. But I think you’re right about structure and more checking.

3. All students want to do is stem. I have definitely had to move many away from this as grades not high enough. 4. Will visit more -I’ve been to 3 in the local area this year and it’s been really helpful.

1. Homework setting and submission is poor and I definitely need to look at exactly what they do in study time. 2. Low priority for sure and not sure how we change the culture on that one - shifting perceptions of level of guidance needed.

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!

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Interested in responses to this: for the 2nd year running we have had strong GCSE results but poor A Level. We have silent supervised study, students on good starting points but they are getting way lower than expected across the board. Where do we start?

Insanely lovely.

Huge shout out to all staff involved in exams and Sixth Form (whose holidays basically ended last Wednesday!) There are kids at the other end of every email so it is very much worth it.

Students need to be taught it too or the cycle perpetuates. As Ho6th, I’m inundated with emails throughout the year from sometimes very fretful students. They’re used to instant responses and I have to balance what is best for the student in that situation. But, I need to not always be available.

New Attendance guidance today : educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/19/f...

My first BlueSky resource share! A new booklet designed to help students with considering quotations from the literature texts. As always… use/chuck/change as you see fit! @teamenglish1.bsky.social

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We don’t do this but rather celebrate individual students, give trend headlines and suggest overall actions for teachers. I pull it all together and think very hard about the delivery.

I agree with everything everyone has said. I would also add that if you have good T&L principles in 7-11, they apply equally to Y12&13: retrieval, turn &talk, everyone answering - MWBs, lots of modelling and time for silent consolidation. Learning is learning. Exciting times!

Great post:

First post and very pleased to be here. #EduSky