In a couple of weeks, year 6 pupils will be sitting down to SATs examinations and in secondary schools, A Level and GCSE exams will start in earnest. Teachers everywhere are concentrating …
Top 10 Revision Strategies
Year after the year, the same pressures attend exam revision. Each year teachers try the old favourites, alongside a few new revision strategies to keep our students interested. Happily, we now have a …
The Long and Winding Road (of Revision)
This article on revision strategies was written for Teach Secondary magazine – to subscribe to the magazine look HERE. The new school year stretches out like one of those American roads that …
Remembering Quotations – 10 Strategies
I don’t think there are many English teachers who haven’t asked the following question in the last year: ‘how do I help my class better remember quotations?’ It is an age-old question, …
Making the Learning Leap: KS4 to KS5
(Apologies if you we’re expecting an album full of images that have students leaping holding their GCSE certificates – I think we have had enough of those this week!) In the midst …