KS3 Lead: English at @TrinityColch, part of the Alpha Trust 🍎 | Regional Lead: East for @LitdriveUK 🐝 #Litdrive (All views are my own)
Colchester, England
Joined February 2012
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Competition time
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Winner announced Sunday at 10pm.
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💬 "It's been game changing for me as a teacher who lacks confidence."
A Litdrive member, in their own words. Behind every download is a teacher finding their footing.
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📣 Litdrive membership for 2026/27 is open.
A year of subject-specific CPD, member-shared classroom materials, and a community of English teachers to think with.
Join or renew: buff.ly/cisH7cs
🐝 #Litdrive #EnglishTeaching
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I have a free copy of our Dr Jekyll Ready to Teach book. Something to help with planning this year.
Will post within the UK to anyone who shares this post.
Will pick a name out of the hat on Sunday 6th September.
Amy Staniforth Stuart Pryke Miriam Hussain Dr Haili Hughes
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Good luck to all students picking up their GCSE results and other qualifications today.
We are all so proud of the determination, hard work and resilience that you have shown.
A huge thank you also to all our school staff who have shown such incredible support throughout.
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Planning some lessons today, so I took a copy of one of the set texts home with me. Nothing quite beats the nonchalant bluntness of school graffiti
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And that's a wrap!
Thank you for all of your support in 2025/2026!
We're having a break too, but to find out first about our plans for 2026/2027, sign up to our Member Bulletin buff.ly/3qSOKfk
Laptops shut, lanyards off and sunglasses on, English teachers 🕶️ #Litdrive
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We would like to wish all our schools, staff, students, governors and communities a very happy and relaxing summer holidays.
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If there was ever a case for asking students to write out the full date, rather than an 01/01/01 shorthand, it’s tomorrow…
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We would like to wish all our schools, staff, pupils, parents and communities a very happy and restful half term holiday.
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3 down, 1 to go. 🐝
Good luck to every student sitting English Language today!
To the English teachers who taught them to read like writers and write like readers: you've done the work. Now it's their turn.
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#EnglishLanguage #GCSEEnglish #ExamSeason #TeamEnglish #Litdrive
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🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨
I have 2 copies of ‘Teacher Hacks: English’ to give away!
Give this a retweet and @HughesHaili and I will pick 2 winners at random on Friday.
@HLearningPD
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Good luck to every student sitting their English Literature exam today- and every teacher who got you there🐝
To every English teacher who has spent months and years building the knowledge, the confidence, and the love of literature!
#TeamEnglish #Litdrive
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Good luck to all English teachers this morning, from Litdrive, as students head into their GCSE English Literature exam! ✨
Thank you for the wisdom and expertise you bring to the subject. We are proud to support you! #Litdrive
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A massive good luck to everyone starting their GCSE exams this week.
We know how hard you have worked alongside the support and guidance of school staff and family members.
You deserve every success.
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We would like to say a big welcome back to all our schools, staff and students.
We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter break and we look forward to working with you all in the weeks and months ahead.
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Welcome back from us!
Exciting term ahead, including:
- our oracy webinar on 30th April
- supporting teachers with classroom planning and revision materials
- exciting things coming up for Primary
- AND our National Conference!
Head over to litdrive.org.uk #Litdrive
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We would like to wish all our schools, staff, students, families and communities a very happy and peaceful Easter Holidays.
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🧵Incredibly excited to share that RTT: AIC is published! @HughesHaili & I received our first copies today. Thank you @SPryke2 @teachals @HLearningPD Preordered copies will begin arriving from the 3rd April & copies will be available at our book launch @AstonUniversity on 2nd May
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🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK!
To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool…
Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles.
The download includes:
→ 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions)
→ 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions)
→ 10 planning templates (put principles into action )
→ Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction
Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle.
👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers!
⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!
