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Your Creative Writing Toolkit [FREE worksheets]

“Writing is the painting of the voice!“ Voltaire Contrary to popular belief, creative writing is not a supernatural ability that some are unfairly gifted with; it is a craft that can be honed with practice and support. We’re here to help! With these worksheets, you’ll be writing like some of the best in no time!…

January 14, 2020
Free Teaching Resources – English Literature

Download your free English Literature free resources here: Oliver Twist Character Quotes Worksheet Bundle

December 23, 2019
Oliver Twist [Free Character Quotation Worksheets]

Teaching is intense, from planning, to teaching, to marking. Sometimes it is hard to design beautiful resources. Our book spotlight today is Oliver Twist and to ease the process learning key quotations we designed FREE Character Quotation Worksheets. Here are some that may come in handy! Download the following free Oliver Twist Character Quotation Worksheets,…

December 14, 2019
How to achieve high level inference! Top tricks on how for English Literature students! [DOWNLOAD FREE INFERENCE LADDER TEMPLATE]

Inference is a big part of English Literature. You may hear your teacher talking about it. You will certainly see reference to it in revision guides and in mark schemes. But what is it? And why do we need it? What is Inference? Let’s start with the definition: So basically:…

December 13, 2019
How to Make Your Studies Work for You: Organising Your Timetable [FREE TIMETABLE]

This guide is designed to help you increase your productivity and create a manageable timetable for your studies. “A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Antoine de saint-Exupery Undoubtedly studying is the bane of all student school life, requiring extra commitment and dedication outside of lessons. If students want to achieve high…

November 1, 2019
How to Write the Perfect Assignment (You’ll want to Read This):

Writing assignments is undoubtedly the crux of assessments for students, outlined in Bloom’s taxonomy as the pinnacle of learning, known as ‘Creating‘. But when it comes to putting pen to paper, it isn’t always every person’s favourite task to do… or the easiest. As there’s much that hinges on our assignments like University places and…

October 10, 2019
Does marking reliability stop students getting their dream jobs?

Our current government time and again has stated that ‘the best way for poor communities to get out of poverty is through employment’. It is true that when poorer students are able to acquire good jobs that they can lift not only themselves, but their communities out of poverty. This has the potential to invigorate…

September 27, 2019
Exam Boards Mark Inconsistently! How Can We Stop It?

You might recall our previous post in which we spoke about the problems with our marking. If not, click here! Teachers aside, even examiners can’t agree on grades which makes marking inconsistency a huge issue! This makes students the primary victims of a growing marking crisis. A recent report published by Ofqual ‘Marking consistency studies’…

September 13, 2019
AI is not here to replace your teacher, it’s here to help!

Fears about Artificial Intelligence Stephen Hawking certainly didn’t allay fears about AI when he said, “artificial intelligence may replace humans altogether!” After reading this, nobody would believe that AI is here to help our teachers. Forget about helping teacher workload, he suggested it would take our jobs altogether. Furthermore, In 1951, Alan Turing (A.I. pioneer)…

April 4, 2019
Problems with our Marking Need to Change

Emily Dickinson once expressed poetically “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” But some truths are too important to leave unsaid. Some truths can change lives. Some truths can save our children’s education. So here’s nothing but the truth to our teachers. Here it is: unedited, uncut, unrevised. Are you ready? There are problems…

March 28, 2019