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Helen Bowman
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✏️ Trust Lead for English & Literacy (Primary - Secondary - AP)
✏️ Evidence Lead in Education
✏️ FCCT
✏️ Assessing & facilitating NPQLL
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Yes, agreed. My only experience of administering it is within English.
January 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
No, it certainly wouldn’t and it has major limitations.

It’s a massive amount of work that English teachers are already doing, however, with the additional frustration that the spoken language NEA is compulsory but does not count towards the candidate’s overall grade!
January 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Administration and monitoring would require careful thought but it would potentially be an AI-proof alternative.
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I wonder if we might see a return to oral responses in some form. They were permitted for the crossover Lang / Lit cwk essay in the English GCSEs in the 2000s, & the spoken language NEA is still a feature of the Lang GCSE as a separately endorsed component.
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m fascinated by this area, Claire. I feel strongly that engagement with good-quality research should be part of our professional identity. I’m setting up a journal club within my trust to build confidence & critical thinking when engaging with research. Have you looked at this model at all?
November 28, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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August 17, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I didn’t know there was one! I will track it down.
August 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM
One of my favourite museums!
August 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM
We're all surviving so far! Hope you are having a lovely summer too and will be able to get a break 😊
August 16, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I think it’s a perfect storm of v successful STEM promotion (esp for girls), greater awareness of perceived employability as a criterion for parents & students, & perhaps a slightly drier offer at KS4.

I also think the increased popularity of Lang and joint Lit / Lang A Level has divided numbers.
August 16, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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August 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM
I never thought English would become a shortage subject but here we are. It’s a worry.
August 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
If you enjoy it then I also highly recommend her debut, We All Want Impossible Things 😊
August 14, 2024 at 6:56 PM