Aging Friendship

You watch it as a teenager – tied so strongly to those that know you the best. You confide in those about the loneliness of adults. You snigger at the lack of friends your parents seem to have. You vow never to be that way. Then you grow…   You don’t feel yourself changing, You

Connect Activities: engage and encourage thought.

From everything I have read and experienced the importance of the starter activity cannot be understated in my opnion. Unfortuantely we are human and we all know if we aren’t gripped in the first few minutes we are less likely to retain what ever is to follow. Think of the last film you watched? The last book you began

5 Ideas for Showing Progression In Lessons

With the focus of progression being even more scrutinised within our lessons I became a hoarder of ideas: beg, borrow, steal and even creating ideas for showing clear progress within my lesson. Below are five ideas that I have tested out with my students; disseminated to my faculty and felt have had a significant impact on

Improving Writing Skills 1

In preparation for the English language exams the students were finding that it was the basics in their writing that they were struggling to get right. They created a list of all the things they were finding difficult and I created lessons to help them. The FOUR key areas are: variety of sentence structures creating