Louise Murphy
@lkm-eng.bsky.social
Head of English; literacy lead; big fan of napping, travel and libraries
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NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes:
✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird
Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird
Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes:
✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird
Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird
Help yourself 😊
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
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Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure.
(Keep reading for the BUT...)👇
Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure.
(Keep reading for the BUT...)👇
August 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure.
(Keep reading for the BUT...)👇
Scaffolds in learning are not optional. Cognitive science shows novices benefit from modelling, retrieval, worked examples & clear structure. Without them, knowledge slips away before it’s secure.
(Keep reading for the BUT...)👇
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🚨 GCSE resits aren’t the problem. Not holding GCSEs is.
There’s a lot of concern in the news about GCSE resits today. What’s missing is concern for the young people who don’t secure passes in English and maths, and what that means for their futures.
Here’s the reality 🧵
There’s a lot of concern in the news about GCSE resits today. What’s missing is concern for the young people who don’t secure passes in English and maths, and what that means for their futures.
Here’s the reality 🧵
Yesterday, BBC Midlands Today joined us at South & City College Birmingham to speak to some students from our tuition programme about their GCSE results. Here are some highlights from the day, and insights into why programmes like this are so important, particularly in the West Midlands 👇
August 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🚨 GCSE resits aren’t the problem. Not holding GCSEs is.
There’s a lot of concern in the news about GCSE resits today. What’s missing is concern for the young people who don’t secure passes in English and maths, and what that means for their futures.
Here’s the reality 🧵
There’s a lot of concern in the news about GCSE resits today. What’s missing is concern for the young people who don’t secure passes in English and maths, and what that means for their futures.
Here’s the reality 🧵
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Managing behaviour can be a source of huge anxiety for teachers, but Mark Roberts has 5 tips you can rely on to create successful learning environments
Behaviour: 5 ways to tackle common classroom issues
Behaviour management can be complex, but subtle communication changes in common classroom scenarios can take away anxiety and create successful learning environments, argues Mark Roberts
www.tes.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Managing behaviour can be a source of huge anxiety for teachers, but Mark Roberts has 5 tips you can rely on to create successful learning environments
@mrsspalding.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @engteacherabro2.bsky.social please could you share this? Am keen to connect with schools already using reciprocal reader 😊 thanks!
Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy
August 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
@mrsspalding.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @engteacherabro2.bsky.social please could you share this? Am keen to connect with schools already using reciprocal reader 😊 thanks!
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Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy
August 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy
Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy
August 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Do you use #reciprocalreader in your school? We are implementing it next academic year and would love to connect with some more schools who already use it! #literacy
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Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
May 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
@contesi.bsky.social hello! I hope you don’t mind me contacting you directly but I am really interested in reading your thesis but can’t find a copy online. Would you mind sharing a copy with me please?
May 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@contesi.bsky.social hello! I hope you don’t mind me contacting you directly but I am really interested in reading your thesis but can’t find a copy online. Would you mind sharing a copy with me please?
We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately -
please sign & share!
media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260
please sign & share!
media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260
Petition: Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be private
We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately, shielded from the public and the...
petition.parliament.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We want the government to change law in relation to the death of a child by suicide. We think that all inquests involving these children should be conducted privately -
please sign & share!
media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260
please sign & share!
media.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714260
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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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‘Why making reading easier may be a bad choice’ - my piece via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
“It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.”
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
“It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.”
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Why making reading easier may be a bad choice
There are myriad ways to simplify reading, from AI summaries to shortened sentences, but we may be making life hard for pupils in the long run, writes Alex Quigley
www.tes.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘Why making reading easier may be a bad choice’ - my piece via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
“It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.”
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
“It is helpful to consider the Goldilocks principle when it comes to reading in class. If it is too easy, it is just as likely to bore pupils as it is to make them more engaged.”
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Ohhh Charlotte #traitors
a woman sitting on a couch with the words karma is real on the bottom
ALT: a woman sitting on a couch with the words karma is real on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ohhh Charlotte #traitors
English teachers!
What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social
What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
English teachers!
What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social
What advice would you give your former self before teaching a Shakespeare play for the first time?
@englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social
We are reviewing our provision for our weakest readers in school.
What programmes / approaches do you currently use?
Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
#literacy
What programmes / approaches do you currently use?
Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
#literacy
January 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We are reviewing our provision for our weakest readers in school.
What programmes / approaches do you currently use?
Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
#literacy
What programmes / approaches do you currently use?
Please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
#literacy
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READING RECOMMENDATIONS TERM 2: This term's version of reading recommendations. Follow the link and click to download. Includes:
@kmlarwood
@kwamealexander
Katya Balen
@MrEagletonIan
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...
@kmlarwood
@kwamealexander
Katya Balen
@MrEagletonIan
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...
January 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
READING RECOMMENDATIONS TERM 2: This term's version of reading recommendations. Follow the link and click to download. Includes:
@kmlarwood
@kwamealexander
Katya Balen
@MrEagletonIan
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...
@kmlarwood
@kwamealexander
Katya Balen
@MrEagletonIan
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...
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Not sure why, but tonight I looked back at a piece I wrote some 20 or more years ago - a tribute to English teachers. It's all a bit 'Dead Poets Society', I suppose, but also, perhaps, a reminder of why English as a subject matters. And why its teachers do. www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/englis...
December 6, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Not sure why, but tonight I looked back at a piece I wrote some 20 or more years ago - a tribute to English teachers. It's all a bit 'Dead Poets Society', I suppose, but also, perhaps, a reminder of why English as a subject matters. And why its teachers do. www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/englis...
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November 25, 2024 at 9:04 PM
English HODs - do you offer Step up to English or Functional Skills? If so, please can I pick your brains on how it runs alongside GCSE lit & Lang?
@litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
@litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
October 13, 2024 at 9:07 PM
English HODs - do you offer Step up to English or Functional Skills? If so, please can I pick your brains on how it runs alongside GCSE lit & Lang?
@litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
@litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social please RT for a wider audience. Thanks in advance!
The revolution starts now
Shortbread selection boxes sound exciting but it’s a con that they are the same thing in different shapes.
They should be one half covered in chocolate, one plain, one with cinnamon dusting, etc etc.
In the meantime they should be renamed just “shortbread”.
They should be one half covered in chocolate, one plain, one with cinnamon dusting, etc etc.
In the meantime they should be renamed just “shortbread”.
October 6, 2024 at 5:54 PM
The revolution starts now
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'Big Listen' respondents' searing 🔥 criticism of Ofsted begs the questions: how did things harm so many, get so bad, for so long, with no self-awareness and such entrenched hubris?
Further findings here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Further findings here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
September 3, 2024 at 8:39 AM
'Big Listen' respondents' searing 🔥 criticism of Ofsted begs the questions: how did things harm so many, get so bad, for so long, with no self-awareness and such entrenched hubris?
Further findings here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Further findings here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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This @tes timeline for OFSTED changes is really helpful.
September 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM
This @tes timeline for OFSTED changes is really helpful.
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@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Becky Francis: what the curriculum and assessment review will and won't do
Writing exclusively for Tes, Professor Becky Francis explains how she will approach leading the curriculum and assessment review
www.tes.com
August 30, 2024 at 9:14 AM
@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
We have a new department office! Our last one was tiny….
Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!!
Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!!
August 30, 2024 at 6:10 PM
We have a new department office! Our last one was tiny….
Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!!
Any tips or suggestions to utilise the space? Want it to be a space to work and collaborate. Any / all ideas very much welcomed!!
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Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...
27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore - Oxford Education Podcast
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August 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...