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I feel a blog coming on, on the teaching of writing. I can't quite believe how the chunking up of writing into separate components has been taking hold, as if writing is something entirely different from & disconnected from thoughts. So 'the sentence' is taught as a thing 1/

Actually, my colleague Andrew McCallum has already written a great blog on some of this. Well worth reading! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-writi…

Article on teaching the really quite useless English Language syllabus: open.substack.com/pub/philbeadle…

londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthcom… i am giving a keynote at the London Association for the Teaching of English conference on the 5 July: Oracy, deficit thinking and linguistic in/justice 🌸

Could there be a version of Chat GTP which works out what you want to hear, and just tells you that?

I don't think KB understands what 'oracy' is. This is like saying, "We don't do literacy. That's why our kids are so good at reading and writing."

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘5 ways to revive form time reading’ “It is no surprise, despite schools investing in stacks of lovely book stock, that they don’t get read and used with the same shiny excitement.” alexquigley.co.uk/5-ways-to-revi…

Brilliant.

Apparently, 'oracy' is a 'mistaken concept'. 709 likes, and rising. Unbelievable.

Deconstructing the language in posts like these is always a joy. The way people start off trying to be all rational and considerate, but end up frothing about "coddling" and "excuses". Edu-nastiness.

James Durran If your school has students talking to each other, doing presentations, having opportunities to develop confidence & skill in talking to adults & each other, & they talk in class about the knowledge they're developing, 'that's ORACY'! Why not be less divisive & recognise that?

Brilliant, as it is every year, a savage mauling of the annual grammar test for Year 6s from Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 For goodness sake, Bridget Phillipson & Department for Education, Oli De Boton and anyone else who can help, PLEASE make it stop!

At the NATE Conference 2025, expect workshops that put communication and craft at the centre: Sarah Davies on oracy in English, Laura Quinn on fresh approaches to teaching structure and Peter Thomas on literacies for life beyond the classroom. #NATE nate.org.uk/nate-conferenc…

The headline invites debate, but to counter (as e.g. Adam Boxer has) that the NC hasn't changed in 10yrs is misleading. In some subjects, for many pupils, the enacted curriculum at KS3 has changed hugely, in response to the EIF & through GCSE-ification. tes.com/magazine/news/…

A GCSE student spends 2000 hours on lessons, homework and revision. But how many of those hours should be spent on practicing exam questions? What’s too much for you?

Not only deeply offensive to all those who apparently just didn't "want" it enough, but also utter tripe.