Drafting Your Personal Statement - Step 1: Origin Story
In 15 minutes each week, this series of steps will help you build a solid first draft of your personal statement.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Norman Maclean
In a verbal tribute to the primacy of nature, as the foundation of all existence, Maclean describes the world at the beginning and end of time
Read MoreNature in Action
The liveliness of my Y7s transformed into calm effort, and exploded again with energy - that was their nature in action.
Read MoreSelf-Dieting
This notion of mental vigilance is empowering, as it encourages a holistic awareness of what information and ideas we allow ourselves to consume.
Read More‘Get Busy Living’
When I see this tree from my train, it recalls these cinematic trees, and the narratives of loss and life bound up in their symbolism.
Read More‘Thank You’
I have my GCSE and A Level students to thank for this practice being on my mind.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Casablanca
Casablanca’s sentimental script boasts some of the most memorable and repeated lines in popular culture.
Read MoreGreat Lines: John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s style is uncomplicated and unadorned, but in these ways uncommonly clear and incisive.
Read MoreA Very Fine Thing
There is something particularly refined about a marriage that has lasted half a century.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth imagines the absolute truth of life and existence in the world around him, and within himself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Zora Neale Hurston
This blog series is devoted to great lines that strike - in literature, speech, music and film.
Read MoreThis Little Light
Teacher wellbeing is as vital as the role teachers perform.
Read MoreThe Love of Language - Part 1: Sound Effects
These ‘sound tools’ makes analysis infinitely more enjoyable, as they give students a license to describe the effects of language in fun and satisfying ways.
Read MoreGood Stuff
English teaching, done right, imparts a love of working language.
Read More'All the bright precious things'
I’ve often wondered at Lurhmann’s line and at this sweeping moment in his version of Gatsby.
Read MoreHow Do We Know? - Part 2: Bias
In our consumption of information, we like what we like, we follow what we like, and we believe what we like.
Read MoreHow Do We Know? - Part 1: Ways of Knowing
How do we know what we know? A blog series exploring knowledge in the digital age.
Read More'No One’s Coming'
The path of self-reliance is the only truly reliable one.
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