Our students spoke with confidence and passion. The results from the election will be revealed during next weeks assembly time! E-ACT The Oldham Academy North TOAN Pastoral #StudentVoice #Democracy #Trust #StudentCouncil

These English escape rooms are perfect for the end of term!
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Clearing the bar

On raising expectations, looking in the mirror, pedagogical improvement and leading Teaching and Learning

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Today I’ve found out about Rewordify and I’m blown away! You can copy text and it will create word banks for you. Great for creating resources for low ability students 🤌🏻

A few years ago I was part of a project where teachers across the country wrote responses to prompts very similar to AQA GCSE language paper 1 Q5. This is my story :) all the stories are available for free here: tes.com/teaching-resou… #englishlanguage #gcse #writing

Beyond Knowledge Organisers

Five years ago (last week!) I published one of the booklets that we developed at Reach Academy Feltham, and why we’d done it.

Codifying what pupils learn in each topic felt important to properly sequence knowledge.

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'Children need to be taught behaviour and routines explicitly, and be given time to learn and practise meeting those expectations.' Spielman. Ofsted. 6/10/23

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📚POST!📚

A Macbeth model essay on ambition.

Share far and wide!

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*** 'The Grammar Gap' ***

'We are left asking: are teachers in both primary and secondary schools suffering from a crippling lack of confidence when it comes to teaching grammar?'

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Common scenario:

You ask a student a question, they say they don't know

What you should NOT do:

Ask another student

What you should do: 👇👇

This academy is a truly inspirational place to work and learn. We are extremely proud of how well they support pupils E-ACT

10 things: Establishing expectations with a new class. teacherhead.com/2023/08/25/10-… > 15k views if this ..
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5 additional takeaways from the exams this year as I definitely still agree with my original ten!

1. Drop quotations used accurately help student reach top band marks. The “judicious” in the mark scheme can be difficult to reach if only one…

E-ACT Oldham Academy North celebrates GCSE results day success manchestereveningnews.co.uk/special-featur…

Very excited to welcome our wonderful Y11s this morning and celebrate their amazing and well deserved results!

Great Paper 2 extract

Introducing the School Culture Curriculum:

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In teaching, sublime results--brilliant classroom discussion; thoughtful essays; enduring knowledge--often come about thanks to relatively mundane teacher skills. Like giving effective directions and narrating the follow-through.

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UN report calls for all schools, globally, to go phone free, to improve academic outcomes primarily.

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