Jane Matthews
@janematthewseng.bsky.social
Teacher of English and Media Studies, Head of Department, Transition Lead and Dog Mum 🐶🐾
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The Department for Education has published ‘The Writing Framework’.
It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too).
Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ
It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too).
Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ
July 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Department for Education has published ‘The Writing Framework’.
It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too).
Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ
It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too).
Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ
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NEW BLOG: Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki...
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May 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
NEW BLOG: Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki...
#engchat #engchatuk
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki...
#engchat #engchatuk
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Have just added the ‘Macbeth’ cycle to this revision folder. As always, use/chuck/change as you see fit! 👉🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
March 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Have just added the ‘Macbeth’ cycle to this revision folder. As always, use/chuck/change as you see fit! 👉🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
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*** NEW POST ***
'What is happening with writing?'
"Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge..."
alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-happ...
'What is happening with writing?'
"Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge..."
alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-happ...
What is happening with writing?
Writing problems, and solutions, can too often go undetected in schools. Unlike reading, there are relatively few specific writing assessments to detect issues that schools can use, so it is hard to f...
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March 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
*** NEW POST ***
'What is happening with writing?'
"Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge..."
alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-happ...
'What is happening with writing?'
"Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge..."
alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-happ...
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Here 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...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here 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...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
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It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win.
I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).
Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win.
I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).
February 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win.
I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).
Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win.
I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).
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*** 'Why word consciousness matters' ***
"Word consciousness refers to the knowledge and dispositions necessary for students to learn, appreciate, and effectively use words."
It is vital to promote the curiosity students need to read & learn.
alexquigley.co.uk/why-word-con...
"Word consciousness refers to the knowledge and dispositions necessary for students to learn, appreciate, and effectively use words."
It is vital to promote the curiosity students need to read & learn.
alexquigley.co.uk/why-word-con...
February 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
*** 'Why word consciousness matters' ***
"Word consciousness refers to the knowledge and dispositions necessary for students to learn, appreciate, and effectively use words."
It is vital to promote the curiosity students need to read & learn.
alexquigley.co.uk/why-word-con...
"Word consciousness refers to the knowledge and dispositions necessary for students to learn, appreciate, and effectively use words."
It is vital to promote the curiosity students need to read & learn.
alexquigley.co.uk/why-word-con...
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NEW BLOG: Precision and laser sharp thinking
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/02/prec...
#engchat #engchatuk
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February 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW BLOG: Precision and laser sharp thinking
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/02/prec...
#engchat #engchatuk
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/02/prec...
#engchat #engchatuk
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Free PDF guide for Year 6s about the SATs from @lbqorg.bsky.social 👇🏼
Useful if you’re doing a SATs info evening for parents soon (or even just to hand out at parents’ evening)
www.lbq.org/filestore/Gu...
#EduSkyPrimary
Useful if you’re doing a SATs info evening for parents soon (or even just to hand out at parents’ evening)
www.lbq.org/filestore/Gu...
#EduSkyPrimary
February 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Free PDF guide for Year 6s about the SATs from @lbqorg.bsky.social 👇🏼
Useful if you’re doing a SATs info evening for parents soon (or even just to hand out at parents’ evening)
www.lbq.org/filestore/Gu...
#EduSkyPrimary
Useful if you’re doing a SATs info evening for parents soon (or even just to hand out at parents’ evening)
www.lbq.org/filestore/Gu...
#EduSkyPrimary
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Feels significant that half of this fund is set aside for helping struggling readers at *secondary* school - perhaps a reflection of post-Covid challenges and an apparent fall in children/teens reading for pleasure.
DfE to set out ‘common approach’ to teaching writing
Half of a £2m DfE funding pot is set aside for secondaries to buy resources for struggling readers
www.tes.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Feels significant that half of this fund is set aside for helping struggling readers at *secondary* school - perhaps a reflection of post-Covid challenges and an apparent fall in children/teens reading for pleasure.
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Updates to 2026 AQA English Language exam:
‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’
www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-en...
‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’
www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-en...
GCSE English Language: updates to our assessments for summer 2026
Announcing changes to increase exam paper and mark scheme clarity for GCSE English Language.
www.aqa.org.uk
January 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Updates to 2026 AQA English Language exam:
‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’
www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-en...
‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’
www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-en...
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Might be behind on the game here, but this podcast is a fantastic performance of AIC. Will definitely be using alongside our upcoming read of the play for a quality experience.
January 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Might be behind on the game here, but this podcast is a fantastic performance of AIC. Will definitely be using alongside our upcoming read of the play for a quality experience.
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Last Friday was some of the best CPD I’ve ever had. On a mission to better support our hearing impaired students to learn to read at Carlton Academy Trust, my colleague and I visited Thomasson Memorial School for the Deaf in Bolton.
What did we learn? 👇🧵 1/
What did we learn? 👇🧵 1/
November 14, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Last Friday was some of the best CPD I’ve ever had. On a mission to better support our hearing impaired students to learn to read at Carlton Academy Trust, my colleague and I visited Thomasson Memorial School for the Deaf in Bolton.
What did we learn? 👇🧵 1/
What did we learn? 👇🧵 1/
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NEW BLOG: Narrowing those feelings
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/effe...
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Narrowing those feelings
Effect is such a funny thing to explore when reading texts. It is wrapped up in so many things. What has happened previously? What does the ...
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September 22, 2024 at 11:33 AM
NEW BLOG: Narrowing those feelings
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/effe...
#engchat #engchatuk
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/effe...
#engchat #engchatuk
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*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
September 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
*NEW* for AQA: 2025 exam date posters for Lang & Lit. There’s about 20 in here, including new set texts. Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f0kwd...
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New blog by me on @engmediacentre.bsky.social website on the teaching of writing. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teachin...
Teaching Writing; Intentions Before Techniques
Barbara Bleiman argues that focusing too much on form when teaching writing can be counter-productive.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
September 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM
New blog by me on @engmediacentre.bsky.social website on the teaching of writing. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teachin...
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We can’t continue with a system that puts so much emphasis on results, with huge consequences for students and schools, and yet put up with such awful unreliability.
September 14, 2024 at 7:38 AM
We can’t continue with a system that puts so much emphasis on results, with huge consequences for students and schools, and yet put up with such awful unreliability.
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So glad to see this piece. It's a national scandal that results in English GCSE are so unreliable that grades can go up by 2 or even 3 grades (as reported by some HoDs). Also that remarks are limited by schools' finances. A major social justice issue. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English
Some high-achieving pupils in England received lower than expected grades that rose after being re-marked
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2024 at 2:15 PM
So glad to see this piece. It's a national scandal that results in English GCSE are so unreliable that grades can go up by 2 or even 3 grades (as reported by some HoDs). Also that remarks are limited by schools' finances. A major social justice issue. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨
'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
"No assessment is perfect – and the KS2 SATs reading certainly isn’t. So, we should replace it with something better, right?"
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
"No assessment is perfect – and the KS2 SATs reading certainly isn’t. So, we should replace it with something better, right?"
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
Streaked tenrecs and improving reading
Have you ever seen a ‘streaky tenrec’? Probably not. For pupils sitting the key stage 2 SATs reading assessment, they likely met the tenrec and the wildlife of Madagascar for the first time.
The fir...
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September 14, 2024 at 8:41 AM
🚨 NEW POST 🚨
'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
"No assessment is perfect – and the KS2 SATs reading certainly isn’t. So, we should replace it with something better, right?"
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading'
"No assessment is perfect – and the KS2 SATs reading certainly isn’t. So, we should replace it with something better, right?"
alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
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New post
Humans first, professionals second
As we think about how we treat one another at the start of the new year
open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
Humans first, professionals second
As we think about how we treat one another at the start of the new year
open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
Humans first, professionals second
Well hello there, and welcome to update #089!
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August 24, 2024 at 9:02 AM
New post
Humans first, professionals second
As we think about how we treat one another at the start of the new year
open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
Humans first, professionals second
As we think about how we treat one another at the start of the new year
open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
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*NEW* AQA Lang & Lit mock exam trackers using June 24 boundaries. RAG rated cell formatting and formula columns locked to prevent accidental data corruption, like so 👇 Help yourselves and RT for a wider audience. #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2cx4a...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2cx4a...
August 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM
*NEW* AQA Lang & Lit mock exam trackers using June 24 boundaries. RAG rated cell formatting and formula columns locked to prevent accidental data corruption, like so 👇 Help yourselves and RT for a wider audience. #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2cx4a...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2cx4a...
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I haven’t seen this analysed much, but the post-Covid English performance needs exploring further.
Meanwhile, results from the National Reference Test raise some concern about post-COVID performance.
Although, perhaps surprisingly, these are in English, rather than where we've become used to seeing them — in Maths — in primary schools (and more immediate post-pandemic analysis of the NRT).
Although, perhaps surprisingly, these are in English, rather than where we've become used to seeing them — in Maths — in primary schools (and more immediate post-pandemic analysis of the NRT).
August 22, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I haven’t seen this analysed much, but the post-Covid English performance needs exploring further.
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#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...
(Paper 2 to follow shortly)
(Paper 2 to follow shortly)
August 22, 2024 at 5:44 AM
#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...
(Paper 2 to follow shortly)
(Paper 2 to follow shortly)
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Following the Paper 1 exam report shared earlier, please find a synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 2 Examiners' Report for June 2024 here: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...
August 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Following the Paper 1 exam report shared earlier, please find a synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 2 Examiners' Report for June 2024 here: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...