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Oct 24, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Frances Hardinge |David Voisin |Bhamika Bhudia
SecondaryEnglishThe Arts If you’ve long fallen out of love with Romeo and Juliet, let Bhamika Bhuda explain why the play needn’t be a plague on your curriculum… by It’s surely impossible for anyone in their teens or older to know nothing about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s been an established part of the English curriculum in KS3 and 4 in schools across the country for decades, but as with anything taught in the same way for so long, it can become stale.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | David Voisin |Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Frances Hardinge
SecondaryEnglish Frances Hardinge unpacks how to teach a much sought-after skill in modern storytelling – that of world-building… by I am addicted to world-building. My usual approach is to come up with one or more bizarre starting premises, and work out the logical and practical ramifications – because even an absurd world can be made to feel concrete if it’s internally consistent.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |David Voisin
SecondaryEnglishLanguages If we can help students understand where words come from, they’ll make great strides in their vocabulary acquisition, observes David Voisin by “Literacy enables people to read their own world and to write their own history. Literacy provides access to written knowledge, and knowledge is power.”These wise words, drawn from Y. Kassam’ s paper ‘Who benefits from Illiteracy?’ may as well be the mantra of modern education.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton
SecondaryEnglish Want teens to read? Letting them know which books certain authorities don't want them to read might be a good place to start this October… by Teachwire DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Animal Farm GCSE – Discuss a key chapter SecondaryEnglish What is Banned Books Week? Banned Books Week started in 1982 and is now an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the value of free and open access to information.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Bhamika Bhudia
What's included? PDF worksheets and PowerPoint Key Stage KS3 Age Year 8 This Year 8 English worksheets pack contains downloadable worksheets and resources that will expose pupils to 19th century writing. Use these resources, themed around Great Expectations, to prompt students to use comprehension, prediction and inference skills. Students will also get practise in analysing writers’ methods. Great Expectations is a 19th century novel written by Charles Dickens.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton
SecondaryEnglish Meera Chudasama looks at how you can turn reading-averse students into avid bookworms desperate to see what the next page holds… “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr SeussHaving started the last academic year with a supported set, I saw for myself how some would drag their feet in English lessons while others had a distinct spring in their step.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton |Peter Inson
SecondaryEnglish The key to overcoming students’ reluctance to study English could be to show how it can be dismantled and reassembled like a mechanism… Some years ago I was asked to assist a young adult, Ben, who had fared poorly in his English studies at school. He boasted to me that he had been thrown out of every school in the local area, but now had responsibilities at work that required him to regularly read and to write reports.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Hywel Roberts |Bhamika Bhudia |Shirley Lawes |Chris Griffiths
Secondary Your classroom rules might be well-established and understood – but only with regular reviewing will they stay that way… DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Bumper Lesson Plan Templates Pack PrimarySecondary Revisit your rules frequently. It doesn’t matter if student behaviour is currently good – you must still revisit your rules. In fact, this might actually be the best time to revisit your rules. Why?
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton |Matt MacGuire |Bhamika Bhudia
SecondaryEnglish Social media platforms aren’t going anywhere – so let’s at least use them to improve students’ ability to read, suggests Bhamika Bhudia… It’s widely understood that reading and literacy play a pivotal role in student outcomes, both academically and beyond. Reading for pleasure has even been shown to have a greater impact on student outcomes than their socio-economic status.
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Apr 10, 2023 | 
hwrkmagazine.co.uk | Bhamika Bhudia
Making The Most Of MocksBy Bhamika BhudiaWhile mock exam season is both a work-heavy and stressful time of year for students and teachers alike, it is a fundamental opportunity for students to practise sitting exams, and for teachers and leaders to assess where their students are, diagnose gaps and misconceptions and use these to best prepare students for the real thing.
