Why the world will always need superheroes

Year 7 just finished their non-fiction Media unit, which is always my favourite way to end the academic year. The main purpose of the unit is to teach students about the way non-fiction media texts persuade an audience, whether it's to entertain, inform, or manipulate. We explore and analyse films, advertisements (representation of women in advertisements …

Year 9- what a year!

As far as how my school structures the curriculum, the year 9 syllabus has to be my favourite to teach. We introduce GCSE skills at this early stage, but the year is broken up into three modules: Term 1: Crime and Punishment (thematic and genre study comprised of fiction and non-fiction texts) Term 2: Power …

Write 4 Rights- Year 9

Teenagers are awesome! After the feminism conference a few weeks ago, I've been thinking about ways to encourage my students to take a more active role in their world. For a lot of my students, who live in a relatively orthodox community, their lack of knowledge about social justice issues in the world might seem …

Quick Teaching Ideas

Just two quick ideas that I've been implementing lately that you might find useful not only for your students, but also for maximising your time as a teacher! Tearable Essay Questions Avoid missing homework excuses, encourage independence, and stretch students' individual study by creating a revision board of essay writing questions and creative writing stimuli. …

Feminism in Schools- Conference

Yesterday my teacher friend Emily and I attended the Feminism in Schools conference at Deptford School, in the south of London. The day was geared at teachers and students, who want to see active change in the attitudes, policies and leadership around activism in education. In a word, it was AWESOME, and I could bang …