Louise Murphy

NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes:

✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird

Help yourself 😊

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...

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Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure.

(Keep reading for the BUT...)👇

🚨 GCSE resits aren’t the problem. Not holding GCSEs is.

There’s a lot of concern in the news about GCSE resits today. What’s missing is concern for the young people who don’t secure passes in English and maths, and what that means for their futures.

Here’s the reality 🧵

Ah amazing! Thank you! Do you use the group work model at all or mainly with visualisers?

Amazing thank you so much! We have been using it in English and it’s worked wonders, starting to implement it across different subjects. How have your school used it in humanities subjects?

Behaviour: 5 ways to tackle common classroom issues Behaviour management can be complex, but subtle communication changes in common classroom scenarios can take away anxiety and create successful learning environments, argues Mark Roberts

Managing behaviour can be a source of huge anxiety for teachers, but Mark Roberts has 5 tips you can rely on to create successful learning environments

@mrsspalding.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @engteacherabro2.bsky.social please could you share this? Am keen to connect with schools already using reciprocal reader 😊 thanks!

Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy

Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy

Princess Leia pictured with blaster pistol. Phrase reads “Well behaved women rarely defeat empires.”

Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

@contesi.bsky.social hello! I hope you don’t mind me contacting you directly but I am really interested in reading your thesis but can’t find a copy online. Would you mind sharing a copy with me please?

Petition: Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be private We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately, shielded from the public and the...

We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately -

please sign & share!

media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260

Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...

Why making reading easier may be a bad choice There are myriad ways to simplify reading, from AI summaries to shortened sentences, but we may be making life hard for pupils in the long run, writes Alex Quigley

‘Why making reading easier may be a bad choice’ - my piece via @tesmagazine.bsky.social

“It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.”

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

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Ohhh Charlotte #traitors

I love the idea of inviting students into the play!

English teachers!

What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time?

@englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social

We are reviewing our provision for our weakest readers in school.

What programmes / approaches do you currently use?

Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!

#literacy

READING RECOMMENDATIONS TERM 2: This term's version of reading recommendations. Follow the link and click to download. Includes:
@kmlarwood
@kwamealexander
Katya Balen
@MrEagletonIan

learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...

This is incredible! What do you think class teachers do in your school which makes such an amazing impact?

Not sure why, but tonight I looked back at a piece I wrote some 20 or more years ago - a tribute to English teachers. It's all a bit 'Dead Poets Society', I suppose, but also, perhaps, a reminder of why English as a subject matters. And why its teachers do. www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/englis...

#libraries

English HODs - do you offer Step up to English or Functional Skills? If so, please can I pick your brains on how it runs alongside GCSE lit & Lang?

@litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!

The revolution starts now

'Big Listen' respondents' searing 🔥 criticism of Ofsted begs the questions: how did things harm so many, get so bad, for so long, with no self-awareness and such entrenched hubris?
Further findings here
www.gov.uk/government/p...

This @tes timeline for OFSTED changes is really helpful.

Becky Francis: what the curriculum and assessment review will and won't do Writing exclusively for Tes, Professor Becky Francis explains how she will approach leading the curriculum and assessment review

@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review

This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

We have a new department office! Our last one was tiny….

Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!!

27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore - Oxford Education Podcast [caption id=

Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...