Reposted by Louise MurphyMatt Lynch @matt-lynch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes: ✅ Enduring Love ✅ Hound of the Baskervilles ✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping ✅To Kill a Mockingbird Help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg... 0105
Reposted by Louise MurphyStuart Rowntree @primarythink.bsky.social · 22/08/20251/ Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure. (Keep reading for the BUT...)👇 141
Reposted by Louise MurphyTes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Managing behaviour can be a source of huge anxiety for teachers, but Mark Roberts has 5 tips you can rely on to create successful learning environmentstes.comBehaviour: 5 ways to tackle common classroom issuesBehaviour management can be complex, but subtle communication changes in common classroom scenarios can take away anxiety and create successful learning environments, argues Mark Roberts 012
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 20/08/2025@mrsspalding.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @engteacherabro2.bsky.social please could you share this? Am keen to connect with schools already using reciprocal reader 😊 thanks! 101
Reposted by Louise MurphyLouise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy 201
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy 201
Reposted by Louise MurphyVHAbrainwitch @vhabrainwitch.altgov.info · 05/05/2025Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen 676615974
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 04/05/2025@contesi.bsky.social hello! I hope you don’t mind me contacting you directly but I am really interested in reading your thesis but can’t find a copy online. Would you mind sharing a copy with me please? 000
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately - please sign & share! media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260petition.parliament.ukPetition: Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be privateWe want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately, shielded from the public and the... 000
Reposted by Louise MurphyStuart Pryke @spryke2.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l... 0359
Reposted by Louise MurphyAlex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025‘Why making reading easier may be a bad choice’ - my piece via @tesmagazine.bsky.social “It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.” www.tes.com/magazine/tea...tes.comWhy making reading easier may be a bad choiceThere are myriad ways to simplify reading, from AI summaries to shortened sentences, but we may be making life hard for pupils in the long run, writes Alex Quigley 087
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Ohhh Charlotte #traitorsmedia.tenor.coma woman sitting on a couch with the words karma is real on the bottomALT: a woman sitting on a couch with the words karma is real on the bottom 0100
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 19/01/2025English teachers! What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time? @englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social 401
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 07/01/2025We are reviewing our provision for our weakest readers in school. What programmes / approaches do you currently use? Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance! #literacy 000
Reposted by Louise MurphyChris Curtis @xris32.bsky.social · 03/01/2025READING RECOMMENDATIONS TERM 2: This term's version of reading recommendations. Follow the link and click to download. Includes: @kmlarwood @kwamealexander Katya Balen @MrEagletonIan learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read... 184
Reposted by Louise MurphyGeoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Not sure why, but tonight I looked back at a piece I wrote some 20 or more years ago - a tribute to English teachers. It's all a bit 'Dead Poets Society', I suppose, but also, perhaps, a reminder of why English as a subject matters. And why its teachers do. www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/englis... 94211
Reposted by Louise MurphySubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024#libraries 13344531496
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 13/10/2024English HODs - do you offer Step up to English or Functional Skills? If so, please can I pick your brains on how it runs alongside GCSE lit & Lang? @litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance! 122
Reposted by Louise MurphyDr James Shea @englishspecial.bsky.social · 03/09/2024'Big Listen' respondents' searing 🔥 criticism of Ofsted begs the questions: how did things harm so many, get so bad, for so long, with no self-awareness and such entrenched hubris? Further findings here www.gov.uk/government/p... 072
Reposted by Louise MurphyAlex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 03/09/2024This @tes timeline for OFSTED changes is really helpful. 1219
Reposted by Louise MurphyJon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 30/08/2024@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for @tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...tes.comBecky Francis: what the curriculum and assessment review will and won't doWriting exclusively for Tes, Professor Becky Francis explains how she will approach leading the curriculum and assessment review 23019
Louise Murphy @lkm-eng.bsky.social · 30/08/2024We have a new department office! Our last one was tiny…. Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!! 110
Reposted by Louise MurphySam Evans @samevans.bsky.social · 23/08/2024Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore - Oxford Education Podcast[caption id= 5198