Late to the party 🥳 But this is a brilliant read full of research and practical ideas! A great book to get my brain working ahead of my first KIT day on Friday. Smashed it @MrsBallAP and @lamb_heart_tea 👏👏👏

It’s been nearly a year since I posted on this app, but I’ve been very busy having our second baby Florence 💕 It’s been chaotic with a toddler and baby! I’m back to work January 2027 but starting to feel ready to dip my toes into the teaching world with some recommendations 🙌

Got an upgraded visualiser this week so I’ve obviously used it every lesson today 🙌😅🔍

Year 8 debating the Benin Bronzes was the highlight of my Thursday 🙌 Passionate arguments, excellent points reflecting on art, culture and history. I definitely need to plan more into the Year 8 lessons.

Introduced Year 7 and Year 8 to one of my favourite recall starters- find and fix! A mixture of literacy and historical errors. A resource shared on Twitter a few years ago (apologies I cannot remember the original tweeter) that is one of my go tos 🙌🙌🙌

Trialling some new low stakes retrieval with Year 11- a piece of knowledge from each 4 topics so far and students tell me a fact. Hoping it helps with basic recall but also stretches the top end students to independently recall specific facts/dates 🧠

Three lessons with Year 11, three different types of retrieval ✍️ An independent task recalling Year 10 knowledge as we start mid-way through a unit, quick owner recall on the current topic and time period sorting for a Year 10 topic they struggled with in the last Y10 assessment

A sign that you’re returning to work and determined not to eat toast everyday for lunch 😂🍴 Batch Cook afternoon > actual lesson prep!

Breaking up on a random Tuesday is not the one, but breaking up for summer is excellent 👌 Ready for a rest and to feel refreshed for September 🙌 Thank you to anyone who has shared blogs or resources on here, I’ve always found the teaching community so supportive here.

Pushing Year 9 to focus on dates not just chronology as they move towards KS4 ✍️

Got the classic Cold War thermometer out this week to show changing tensions during the Cold War. Also tried to push Year 9s with comparison of events to stretch explanation ✍️🌡️

Focus on adverbials today with Year 7 to try and develop their explanation and improve their academic writing ✍️

Forever grateful to this platform for the guided reading template allowing students engage with Historical writing ✍️🙌 Plus Ai to make it accessible for those with lower reading ages to create adapted versions that answer the same questions.

Trying to get Year 7 to see that explanation isn’t statements or listing facts or veering off the question with some examples from their daily lives. Students verbally discussed these before considering the answers below. It really helped their written responses later on ✍️