The Creative Process
Reflecting on my own practice has led me to consider what it is to be a creative practitioner, and the impact this might have on my learners. I've become PowerPoint adverse and in the last few years thought increasing about how and why the classroom activities I choose have had such a positive impact, not only only results, but on the aspirations and creativity of my learners.
This is a fun warmer that will get the students' brains ready to think in English. I think it can be used with any level of students, it just depends on the difficulty and quantity of words the students need to find rhymes for.
Steps:
"Come on baby light my fire!"
In education today there are few topics that receive the unanimous support of all educators like the value conferred upon literacy and particularly the importance of reading. The evidence regarding how literacy can impact upon life chances is incontrovertible and the 'riches' provided by reading are very real: literally, in terms of average wages and career success; as well as emotionally, spiritually and cognitively.
Hi all – as a part of my TLR within my English department, I am leader for APP. At the moment, I have a clear policy in which staff ‘track’ 3 representative pupils in each KS3 class and use these students to moderate our assessment and to monitor gaps in our teaching.
Please could I ask, if you are involved in/ leading APP in your department – how does it work and what are the ideas behind it?
Would be grateful if you could share 
The weather forecast has insisted, for days now, that we would recive heavy snow here in the Midlands.
And at last it is here! I am very lucky, as a teacher, because I know that I live close to school and if I had to get in to work, I could do the walk. I also know, that when the snow is heavy (like it is now – 4 hours on from the above picture) the school will be closed and I won’t have to take the risk.
Other people (non-teachers) always like to moan about this fact. But, they’re all missing a fundamental point… isn’t it a wonderful thing to allow children to have fun in the snow? To just be children?… Surely that’s what really matters.
