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Why we need to warm up ‘cold call’

This is a guest blog written by Emily Pringle. Emily has been a History teacher for 12 years working in Lincolnshire. She has three children and works 0.8, and is…

‘Checking out me [grammar]’

John Agard has written this poem in Patois to show that his language and identity is just as worthy as that of the other writers in the English Literary Canon.Y10…

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…

Visualise Metaphor

Metaphor is one of the key pillars of knowledge in English. Whether we are creating them or encountering them, metaphors highlight the interconnectedness of ideas and experiences. Fundamentally, metaphors are…