Jennifer’s Blogs

English Curriculum and ‘The Spherical Cow’…

I do a lot of curriculum work. For quite a while now I’ve been trying to articulate something for myself with little success. This blog post has been invariably a Twitter post, a very long thread, and then a collection of notes sitting in my drafts folder for aaages. Anyway, I met a lady last …

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Maximising the Value: What Can the Education System Learn From the World of Continuous Improvement?

This is a guest blog written by Louisa Grimley. Louisa is currently Secondary English Lead at a 4-19 SEND provision in Leicester.  A latecomer to teaching, she uses her previous experience in change management to help shape staff development and curriculum engagement/design. She is passionate about well-being and sits on her school’s well-being committee. She …

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GCSE Narrative Writing: Form Fragments

‘Creative’ Writing on the current GCSE specs isn’t really ‘creative’ in the real sense of the word. Students must respond to an unseen prompt in timed conditions and attempt to demonstrate a particular set of skills within that limited frame. It’s not creative writing. It’s a strategically crafted show-piece. Frustrating as this is, I actually …

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