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mrptse.bsky.social
Assistant Principal (SENCO) and English Teacher at Ark Soane Academy. TF Ambassador 2016. Blog: mrtseenglish.wordpress.com
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Half term reading 📚

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

3 and a half years ago, a small group of 11 teachers set up Ark Soane Academy. We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school. Where has the time gone?! 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Really excited to be visiting Dixons Trinity today and to hear more about their approach to SEND!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One of my Y10s enthusiastically shared this joke with me yesterday: Why did Mrs Birling wear a jacket? She was 'rather cold'

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

#Soane25 is live! Come and join us on Saturday 8th February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers. Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!) Don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Really excited to share that I'll be stepping up to Assistant Principal - SENCO from January! Would love any suggestions of great SENCOs/people working in SEND to follow.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote this some months ago and have avoided posting it for some time. Here's why I think we spend too much time worrying about pedagogy: inthenameofrigour.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/c...

submitted 94 days ago • 14 comments

I've been trying to teach myself Chinese since the start of September and it's been a humbling reminder that learning is bloomin' difficult.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level. Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame? I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend. More here.

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments

We have an English Teacher role at the wonderful @ArkSoaneAcademy (Jan start or earlier) 🎓Free school up to Y10 now. First GCSEs next year! ☑️Disruption-free learning with strong centralised behaviour system 🤝Excellent culture of staff development www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJM...

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

PRIZE DRAW: to celebrate the #researchED guide to Primary Literacy, we have a few copies to give away. Simply RT this to enter! Draw ends in 24 hours. Come along to the accompanying primary conference in November. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...

submitted 143 days ago • 3 comments

Huge thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for organising another excellent ResearchEd yesterday. Thanks also for giving me the chance to present on the English curriculum. Had such a lovely day! #rED24 📸 @priteshraichura.bsky.social

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited and nervous to be speaking at ResearchEd for the first time next week. My presentation features John Keats, the English curriculum and family trees! #rED24

submitted 178 days ago • 5 comments

Very excited and nervous to be speaking at ResearchEd for the first time next week. My presentation features John Keats, the English curriculum and family trees! #rED24

submitted 178 days ago • 5 comments

If we put honour and prestige on the hard work we are also being inclusive. And it is where the honour really is. Andy Murray is as great for his latter career heroics against the dying of the light than his titles because we understand the heroism in giving your all when you don't "win".

submitted 193 days ago • 3 comments

Fashionably late to the party! Welcome to @michaeldoron.bsky.social and @mjburnage.bsky.social 👋

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks again for sharing @alexjquigley.bsky.social. Great read! Would recommend this article exploring why enrolment onto English majors is falling in US. It's quite a long read so quick summary of main reasons:

submitted 195 days ago • 1 comment

Really heartening to hear take up of A-Level English is picking up!! A-Level English is what inspired me to study English at uni!

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

To add to the edu-blogs being shared, here's one I wrote last year. Some thoughts on knowledge and designing an English curriculum! mrtseenglish.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/c...

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like priteshraichura.bsky.social has made the jump across! Definitely worth a follow #edusky

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment