*NEW* for AQA: English Lang & Lit mock exam trackers, using June 2025 boundaries and RAG rating for QLA, for each paper like so 👇 Retweet and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/f3mf77e…

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I have turned all our Macbeth lessons into a booklet - I just like having them for off-site pupils, anyone out of lesson etc. Sharing in case you are a booklety sort of school! It is literally just our powerpoints copied and pasted into booklet form :) drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

TF English Team Can anyone give any thoughts/experiences of Edexcel Language 2.0? Growing increasingly disillusioned by AQA Language and we are considering switching elsewhere but after so long a daunting prospect Jennifer Webb Stuart Pryke Matt Lynch Laurie Whitwell Shabnam Ahmed

Teaching AQA Language Paper 1? I’ve put together a full walkthrough of section A with tips, strategies & model answers to help students get to grips with the paper. Perfect for GCSE prep — check it out! 👉 youtu.be/6PUWu_AGGwY?si… #TeamEnglish #GCSEEnglish

A task designed to help students reflect on ideas and images from Act One of Macbeth douglaswise.co.uk/blog/imagery-a… 👑

Calling Team English! I want to set up a wider reading / literary concept club at KS4, with the aim of exploring topics (authors / movements / eras) in English that we wouldn’t normally cover in lessons. Has anyone had any experience doing this? GCSE MACBETH Jennifer Webb

*UPDATED* for AQA to reflect changes 2026 onwards. Q by Q student bookmarks for both Lang papers. Fold and laminate. Retweet and help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fi/zqk54wz…

I’m looking for English teaching roles at secondary back in the UK. If you need an English teacher, please do get in touch with me and I’ll send you my CV. Please RT. #TeamEnglish

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Testing does not fix disengagement

Leaders in secondary schools, please. Do you track the reading of your pupils from Yr 7 using a tool like GL assessment or similar?

Six short, modern fiction extracts for students to read, explore and enjoy douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literary-… The final task in each set is a creative writing challenge 📚

The science of learning isn't about prescriptions, it's about probabilities. And this is where knowing the boundary conditions of any principle matters so much. Knowing when not to use it can be as important as knowing when to. This is my problem with every lesson starting with

36 x AQA style Lang P2 viewpoint writing tasks, like so 👇 Help yourself #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/ibsd5fx…

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Watching season 3 of ‘Alice in Borderland’ and my palms started sweating at the brief glimpse we were just shown of the ‘Tokyo Tower’ task. Personal Hell! 😱

In case this is useful for anyone, I made a thread a few years ago full of texts I love for Black History Month #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Please RT to your networks 👍

AQA’s GCSE English Language P1 Q4 has been retooled to help candidates respond. It offers some great opportunities for students to productively engage with the idea of thinking and writing analytically, as NATE director Anthony Cockerill rediscovers: nate.org.uk/2025/10/03/aqa… #NATE

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