GCSE MACBETH

It's easy to roll one's eyes at Twilight, Potter, Hunger Games etc but the simple fact is *those books get non-readers reading*. I'd love to have another mega-series ripping through schools.

Hmmm. Graphic novels are not regular novels that happen to have pictures instead of prose. They're stories told through an interplay of words and imagery. Why is that visual language essential for the English curriculum, and where is the subject knowledge coming from?

Yep. You want meaningful writing done, it needs to be in class. Also someone -- Lemov? Hochman? -- wrote that since writing is the hardest part of the process you should be doing it in class anyway.

Medieval people regularly cleaned their mattresses, they actively combatted fleas and were terrified of bad smells so did everything to avoid them. They had pillows. Blankets were washed more than once a year. Livestock didn't live in the same room as the people, they lived…

Bit of a plea, would anyone willingly share their KS4 raising standards plan? Not looking to poach, looking at how other secondary schools have successfully raised standards for inspo @FunkyPedagogy @GauravDubay3 @K2SR7 @TeachLeadAAli @head_teach @GCSE_Macbeth @Bowtie_pedagogy

Just synched the BBC Sport, ITV and BBC Sounds commentaries for Agyemang’s goal and it’s like poetry I’ve been listening to this over and over again

It's very unfair, my son is 9 and pretty much all his memories of watching England -- men and women -- is that they're very good and reach finals or even win tournaments. He needs to suffer!

the day your child comes to you asks you to put their ai-generated "drawing" up the fridge you will know what the difference is.

I think there's still more than a chance that AI is overhyped as a world-altering technology and the mega-expansion looks silly in a decade, if not sooner

"School isn't childcare!" Yes, one (not the only) very important function of schools is in fact childcare.

The thing that’s funny about most photoshop jokes is that somebody took a stupid idea seriously enough to invest the time to make it. If you use A.I. it’s just like, yeah, I guess that’s what that would look like.

Very good (obvs) from @daisychristo . AI requires a reframing of the part that writing plays in the curriculum. Writing isn't just a test of what you know, it IS the act of learning in itself. (also means a big homework rethink) substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-the-…

One for my older millennial / borderline Gen X followers here x.com/thehandofbeadl…

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

NEVER IN DOUBT. NEVER IN FUCKING DOUBT. #Lionesses

Have finished a re-read of the wonderul Piranesi. This is a mysterious, dreamlike book; a fascinating allegory of trauma and manipulation. In its mix of beauty and abuse of power I see a distant descendant of The Tempest.

Maybe King Duncan should have done a couple of escape rooms for practice