Vice Principal in charge of Curriculum and Standards

Joined December 2017
Could not be happier for our amazing students and staff who have worked so hard to achieve these outstanding results! We’ve had the best morning in school celebrating our students and their successes! expressandstar.com/your-worl…
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Thank you @ProLevelAcademy and, in particular, @TomConlon96 for my son’s first football session tonight. He was so excited to be coached by a professional footballer and Tom was brilliant with him. Would definitely recommend.
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🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 By the pricking of my thumbs... something special this way comes. You could win: 🎭 Two seated tickets to #Macbeth 🍰 Afternoon tea for two in the @swanglobe 🛍️ Themed mugs from shop To enter: 👉Follow us 👉 Retweet 👉 Comment 🩸 below!
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Next booklet up ... thanks for all your suggestions. I fundamentally believe that language papers should not be seen in Year 10. Embed the skills through the literature: develop students' ability to explore viewpoints, analyse language/structure, respond to statements etc. Then-
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Never thought I’d ever dress up but couldn’t pass on being Miss Havisham for the day. What an eclectic bunch. #teamenglish @MrsJMahon @Wendy_humps @teachingtipsx #worldbookday
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Teaching reading in secondary schools. “Learning to read -> read to learn” Training document on teaching reading which is heavily based on summaries of @AlexJQuigley ‘closing the reading gap’ Looking forward to launching it with staff and sharing it @FSDConferences next week!
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Brilliant to hear @daisychristo talk today at the #cetconf22
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I will miss this fabulous team ❤️
A very very sad day for BBS English as @MrsJMahon has left us! It won’t be the same but she will forever be part of our team. Here we all are this afternoon. Good luck Mrs Mahon!! Xxx
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This is how to use your platform. What an incredible achievement and so important to break the stigma about free school meals.
I don’t even know what to say. Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.
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Year 11. You’re confused & worried. But know this: you’ll get into college. And you will be fine. You will see, through this, that you can deal with hard times - and that you are strong - and when the most unpredictable curveball comes your way, if will be ok on the other side.
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Y11 been issued 15 revision tasks ready for their mocks, including: a Language Paper 1 with supporting revision guide; an unseen poetry question; various poetry comparison questions and an AIC question. These should be used as revision over half term and completed by March 10.
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Here, the witches' proclamation of Macbeth's name precedes the report of Macbeth's heroism that comes in 1.2. It's as if M is pre-cursed by the witches. They get to him first. Already, Macbeth is heading to a collision with a higher power than even Duncan. 3/3
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There's a classic Shakespearean technique of having *other* characters discuss the play's hero before they arrive: Othello, R&J have notable examples. (In Hamlet they discuss Old Hamlet not Young Hamlet, significant in itself). 2/
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#MacbethActOneScOne l.6 FIRST WITCH: Where the place? SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH: There to meet with Macbeth. The metrical hiccup before "Macbeth" announces the play's title character. The line is missing a syllable from the witches' trochaic tetrameter. 1/
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After being cooped up inside the house for days with a poorly child, it felt good for us all to get out in the autumn sunshine today 🍂 #autumn
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Students take note....
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Lovely to meet so many parents at the Year 7 evening last night and hear how well their children have settled in at @BurtonBorough
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