English Teacher, Lead Prac', ECT/ITT Lead and Coach. NPQLTD. Cooking/Baking, Theatre, Poetry, Veganism, Faith, Art, Learning, Literature, Liberty and Life. 🖤
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A one-pager on each of the English Language exams (AQA) to be used by students as a reminder or to be talked through as part of a last-minute revision session douglaswise.co.uk/blog/engli… 📝
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Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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People give what they carry inside. Kind people include. Mature people communicate. Healed people set boundaries. Secure people celebrate others. The way people treat you is often a reflection of what lives within them, not a measure of your worth.
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Revision resource for An Inspector Calls on important moments in the play. A single page for each act douglaswise.co.uk/blog/impor… 🔍
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Dear employers, normalize not holding interviews when you have already decided who is getting the job. Some unemployed people borrow money just to cover transport costs to attend these interviews.
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I’m in love with this sentence:
“Bigger dreams call for healthier habits and healthier habits require more self discipline.”
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Why did Scrooge want a bottle of Fairy Liquid for Christmas?
So he could de-grease the surplus population.
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Handwriting activates a broader network of cognitive brain regions compared to typing.
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Reposting this as we get close to starting the school year.
This genius list by the late and much missed Tim Brighouse should be the starting point for how our schools focus on the young people within them.
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“The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks, and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us, the storms and blessings of earth. We learned to do what only the student of nature learns, and that was to feel beauty.”
~ Luther Standing Bear, Sicangu-Oglala Lakota, (1868-1939) – at Pine Ridge, SD
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Reading a book in public is only performative to people that don’t read books. To a reader, every waiting room, park bench, and train carriage is another potential chapter.
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“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”
- McKellen reciting Vonnegut
