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What are you doing to keep engaged and stretched in your English Literature texts at the end of term? 🤔

Parents and students are looking forward to the end of another school year, but for those in between examination courses, keeping momentum and focus can be tricky.

In my Year 10 group today it was joyous to stretch my students with a wider look at themes and motifs in An Inspector Calls, and the mind- bending influence of TIME on the playwright in this clever play. 🕰️

A good tutor needs a wide range of knowledge about all of the texts they teach to be able to keep students engaged, but also challenged beyond the stress of just knowing ‘quotes’. 🧠

I’ve taught most of the texts in GCSE English Literature in some form for nearly 20 years now 👵🏼 and love enlightening students in new ways to give them a deeper understanding of the texts they study.

Get in touch if you would like to be challenged, engaged and motivated to improve in English Literature next academic year. 💪🏼

There are limited spaces in my GCSE group classes and my day time 1:1 availability is almost full!

Will you be able to find the TIME to predict success in your future? 🕰️

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Would you like access to an #elite pool of #tutors who all have decades of experience and are #alevel and #gcse specialists? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well, the ONLINE TUTOR COLLECTIVE offers just that!

⭐️’’We are a group of high calibre tutors who are all highly qualified A-level teachers with many years of subject and online teaching/tutoring expertise.

All of us are part of the Online Tutor Collective and whilst we each have our own independent tutoring businesses we agree to a set of common quality standards.

We recommend each other. I choose to promote my fellow tutors in other subjects as it provides both my clients and potential clients with options to consider that might better meet their needs.’’ ⭐️

The tuition landscape is vast and increasingly crowded. I am proud to collaborate with a super range of tutors who all offer the highest level of expertise, safeguarding assurances and robust Ts&Cs to protect and serve your child with care.

As an introduction to the collective, we are offering 🆓 A level taster sessions in a range of academic subjects on WEDNESDAY 9TH JULY from 11am-1pm and then again at 6.30 - 8pm (BST).

If you’re interested in attending this FREE session the just DM 🤩 Free Alevel Tuition 🤩below and I’ll send you the Google link! 👇🏼

Places are filling fast so if you’re in Y10 or Y11 and still uncertain of which A levels might be for you, come along and get a taste of quality tuition for FREE!

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“Lost in his experiments, he was labelled by teachers as ‘too stupid to learn anything’ and failed over 10,000 times to create an economical lightbulb”

This man was Thomas Edison.

Everyone reading this right now has experienced failure at some point in their lives. And we all know what that feels like: crushing disappointment. The word used to describe ourselves at that point? Perhaps, ‘Loser’ 😢

Success appears elusive and then ‘overnight’ if you believe the Insta-world of ‘influencers’; yet, as parents and teachers, we all know that a walk through hell is almost a hand-held companion to success.

So, why is our education system set up only to reward success? And by that, I mean high-stakes, artificial, examinations success.

If you measure learning by performance only then surely this is setting up young people to fail in life from a very early age. Life is about problem solving and failure as much as it is about success. In fact, the first two dominate life more than the latter.

So, with high-stakes performance measured at age 11, 16, 18 and many stop-off points in between - what is education actually preparing our children for? It is a stressful, repetitive, rote-learning experience for many, with performance as the end game, not valuable learning. Surely, this is counter-intuitive to what education and learning represents?

Applying a range of tools, and thinking your way out of a problem using trial, error and reflection is not rewarded by our current education system. Yet, the fast moving world our children will move into demands it.

Perhaps we would all be sitting in the dark right now, unable to navigate the world as we know it, if Thomas Edison had been schooled to believe that performance was the only pathway to success.

Let’s make failure a central part of how we educate our children.

How have your failures shaped you?

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Scaffolding student responses in English is what self-raising flour is to baking 🎂 : include the right amount and a student’s writing will rise in front of you; forget to include it and - like the cake you’re trying to bake - student writing can fall flat.

As part of my end of year tutor reflections, I have noticed improvements in both the clarity and confidence of scaffolds in my teaching. This has been down to two main approaches:

⭐️Widening my knowledge of different scaffolding approaches through professional development reading.

⭐️Revisiting writing full examination responses myself and reverse planning how I ‘got there’; then simplifying my answers into a coherent scaffold for students.

In my experience of training teachers and tutors over the years, I am always surprised by how many educators lack confidence in writing examination responses, yet are in the business of helping students improve exam performance!

My tuition is littered with model answers, live writing and scaffolds. This is the kind of learning material students are hungry for, and the clarity that comes from seeing their tutor actively attempt and then break down a response lessens cognitive load and is proven to lead to success.

Whether a tutor has a teaching qualification or not - what they should possess is a desire to improve their own knowledge and skill in understanding how students learn and the evidence-based methods that bring the greatest chances of success in examinations.

English is a notoriously ‘heavy’ subject in terms of how much skill and knowledge is required in an exam response; so - to help students progress - tutors must weigh their ingredients carefully, through small guided steps: student writing will then rise in the same way a yummy cake should.

🔗 Get in touch if you would like evidence-based, high -quality teaching and learning approaches to support your child with exam success.

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Q How can you offer individual support in a small group setting?

A I adapt!

My Year 10 class is halfway through a unit on unseen poetry this half term. Students are enjoying unpicking a variety of different poems each week and it’s a refreshing way to end a long academic year yet still covers much needed analytical skills for the GCSE Literature exam.

However, many Year 10 students have end of year exams once the Year 11s have finished and so this week one student said:

🔴’I have my A Christmas Carol exam on Monday, can you help me prepare for it?’ whilst another said:

🔵’ I’ve got English Language Paper 1 on Friday, can I do something on that please?’

The need to adapt quickly to teach and monitor three different topics is crucial here so no time is wasted and each student receives the support they need.

I am grateful when 20 years of experience and well-planned resources are only a click away.

🤹‍♀️ Tonight, I successfully taught one student about the contrasting themes in A Christmas Carol and helped him to find quotations to support his understanding of the themes.

🤹‍♀️Another student was guided through a pre-planned scaffold on how to approach Question 4 in English Language paper 1.

🤹‍♀️ And my other students practised writing concise introductions for an essay about an unseen poem.

Quite the juggler!! 🤯

Once students were directed to each of their resources, I could move seamlessly between them online, guide and track their responses to the activities I gave them.

The result at the end of the session?

The two students preparing for exams were left with a range of resources to use for revision and an activity booklet.

My other students successfully planned an essay about an unseen poem.

And I still managed to drink my cuppa! ☕️ 🥳

🔴Do you want targeted and expert support for your child in just one click?

🔵Join the waitlist for my Y9, Y10 or Y11 group classes for September.

From just £27 per session, there’s never more than 6 students in a group and whatever your child needs, this juggler has it covered! 🤹‍♀️

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As well as tutoring and teaching, I have spent a lot of my career mentoring educators themselves.

I love the connection, commitment to betterment and enthusiasm that comes from sharing expertise and asking the right questions to unlock improvement.🔓

From ECTs and tutors, to career teachers and curriculum leaders in school, I love being given the opportunity to support development in education.

Early in my teaching career I had some wonderful mentors and I honestly don’t think I would be the educator I am today without that invaluable guidance.

It’s truly a privilege to support other educators on the their journey and to have ringing endorsements like this one is makes it all worthwhile.

Together with the WhatsApp group for tutors and the English Tutors’ Hive, 1:1 coaching support creates a holy trinity of super development I can offer tutors.

Get in touch if you’d like some bespoke coaching or join the English Tutors’ Hive and Pedagogical WhatsApp group below.👇🏼

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Parents, did you know…

…writing essays as a way of analysing texts only became the norm in the early 20th century? 🤯

Before that students would critically examine and show their understanding of a text through the following:

✏️ Re-writing a text either from verse to prose - what we now might call a ‘recreative’ task.
✏️ Restructuring and rewriting a short portion of a text in different ways, many times
✏️ Imitation: copying the style of an author - what we today call ‘stylistics’
✏️ Writing ideas from a text in another style: e.g. ode, dialogue, haiku, short rhymes - playful writing.

In brief, you demonstrated your understanding of literature not so much by writing about it, as by actually writing it. And in doing so, you also developed as a writer. Critical appreciation of a novel or poem came through writing imaginatively.

By exploring the form and language of texts creatively and repetitively, students become aware of the craft of writing. It doesn’t happen by accident - it is a deeply iterative and structured as well as imaginative endeavour. To understand that every detail, every line and shift in tone has been placed for a reason is to unlock analytical appreciation on a scale beyond the superficial taught in schools. 💡

And guess what? This type of ‘creative reading’ is far more fun than simply writing an essay.

With the performative and oppressed wasteland of social media, it is no wonder that the light of imaginative writing as a focused and tenacious process becomes alien to young people. A pen and paper was never a safer and more needed place to express oneself and explore the emotions lurking at the heart of a young person than it is now. 📵

Essays are not a one-size fits all method for assessment in English (despite the pressure to write close to 5 of them in the GCSE English Literature examinations!) Tuition can bring more balance into student understanding of literature through creative reading and writing as well as essays.

I - for one- will start the new academic year with a more varied and enjoyable barrel of learning activities for my students.

Who wants to join me? 🙋🏼‍♀️

🙋🏼‍♀️ How can tutoring benefit my child? And why choose Hope Tuition Clinic?

I could answer these questions by listing my experience or student grade improvements, yet nothing reveals how valuable a service is like a successful student story. ❤️

So…meet Ellie. 👧🏼 Ellie’s mum came to me with her friend to start 1:2 tuition at the beginning of Year 10 last year.

Ellie and Olivia both had busy netball schedules, playing at an elite level. Sessions had to fit in between them catching and throwing balls on a court several times a week!

Year 10 saw Ellie’s confidence and knowledge of English texts slowly improve but her grades at school were still not moving and Year 11 mocks revealed a blow to Ellie’s perceived progress.

So, we shifted gears and I offered extra 1:1 for Ellie to catch up on curriculum content the school was struggling to cover in depth.

I could sense Ellie was improving in confidence and focus. So when Easter of Year 11 arrived, I invited Ellie for more 1:1 sessions and focused just on essay planning, writing and analytical writing scaffolds. We practised and repeated this exam-ready strategy over the holiday period. Ellie showed up and committed by writing essays following the planning structure taught and I awarded two Grade 6 results for her timed responses. This was 2 grades higher than Ellie’s mocks in December: we both sensed a breakthrough!

The reason?

Focused and repetitive essay planning, scaffolded learning and repeated writing - all built on a foundation of over a year of tuition.

My guidance saw Ellie confident and ready for her exams. She was armed with my essay planning and writing scaffolds that had been learnt to automaticity. For Ellie to move from a Grade 4 to comfortably writing Grade 6 essays is testament to her tenacity. And regardless of her results in August, to see Ellie grow from an overwhelmed and unconfident English student to one who actively enjoys and listens to my teaching each session makes a successful student story in my book.🫡

Get in touch if you’d like to become my next success story! Tuition really does change more than just academic outcomes.

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Do you want to see expert teaching in action online?

The pace doesn’t slow down for my Y9 Group class. Only 6 weeks away from Y10 and with writing skills often under taught at schools due to squeezed curriculum time, as a ‘teacher tutor’ I have the knowledge and skill to anticipate gaps in knowledge and build sessions around much needed granular writing skills. ✍🏼

All sessions with me include:

✅ Clear learning goals that are part of a longer sequence of learning.

✅ Expert subject knowledge based on 20 years teaching experience.

✅ Modelled writing that showcase the skills students need to use.

✅ Real examination extracts used to keep student learning tightly linked to the exam.

✅ Granular focus on all English skills to avoid cognitive overload and assure learning sticks.

Do you want to get ahead and book one for my few remaining spots for September?

Get in touch for a trial session or to join one of my successful group classes for September.

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I’m using this supportive ‘no opt out’ approach immediately in my sessions next week. 💪🏼

‘I don’t know’ is the gateway to even better #learning. And I am actually pleased my students feel comfortable enough to be #vulnerable with me about the limits of their knowledge.

There’s still ‘no opt out’ in my learning though. Doug Lemov encourages #highexpectations of student #engagement through his no opt out’ approach and, as educators, we should guide students to build paths through uncertainty to understanding, not make it easy for them.

How do you promote ‘no opt out’ with your students in a #supportive and none-threatening way?

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Small group tuition classes have more benefits for student learning than you think. 🤔

With one of my group classes already full for September - and others with only a couple of spots left - many students and parents are seeing the financial and academic benefits of attending one of my private group classes.

Only 6 get in. Will your child secure a place? 🙋🏼‍♀️

💬 Get in touch for more information or to be added to the waitlist for KS3/ GCSE for September.

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I’m not crying, you are! 🥹

I must admit, I was a little overwhelmed by this review. ❤️

As home educated, I have taught this student three times a week and so fully responsibility for her understanding, skill and exam readiness for GCSE English Literature and Language.

She is an actor and performer, so it was not difficult to enthuse a love for Blood Brothers and Macbeth, however it is always up to the student to build the time in between sessions when home educated, to find the motivation and drive to work on skills and knowledge taught in lessons.

This student did that in spades.

Each week she showed up, worked hard, committed to mock exams I set and enjoyed learning about themes, character and structure of texts from a variety of interpretations.

Mum always maintained that grades were secondary to enjoyment and we are now discussing ways to continue with Lit at A level!

Tuition can improve far more than grades and this is a lovely endorsement of my efforts and expertise as well as the enthusing of a love of literature for years to come.

Get in touch if you want sessions with the ‘Queen of English’ 😜

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20 years of teaching and learning GCSE English have gone into tonight’s final revision session.

40 minutes of exam strategy, essay planning guidance and support are available before the longest written exam of the GCSE season!

There’s still a couple of spaces so DM ‘Lit Paper 2 Help’ for an access link before 7.30pm.

You’ve got this! 💪🏼

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⭐️ NEW SCHEDULE JUST RELEASED⭐️

✅ Do you want your child to get ahead for September?

✅ Have Year 10 or Year 12 mock results not been as encouraging as you’d hoped?

✅ Could your child benefit from early support at in Y8 or Y9 to prepare them for the heavy content of GCSE?

Then joining one of my 1:1 or small group classes may be just the support and accountability your child needs.

With 5* reviews on Facebook and Instagram and 20 years of teaching, examination and curriculum leadership experience, myself and my small team of super tutors can help your child achieve the result they need: whether that be confidence, exam results or a better understanding of their subject.

✨Hope Tuition delivers it all.

📣 Get in touch to secure an early bird spot for September. For the past 3 years I have been full by the end of September so early booking is advised.

Let’s have a 🆓 15 minute discovery chat about your child’s needs and go from there.

It’s sad waving goodbye to super students, but always exciting to welcome new ones to the Hope family! Will your review be on my advert for next year?

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Are you ready for tomorrow?

The first 10 minutes are crucial in an exam. Join my 45 minute guide for exam success for tomorrow’s English Literature exam.

You’ve got this. 💪🏼

It’s the business end of the school year!

Exams are almost here and many students are busy revising. ✍🏼

However, revision of content only gets students so far.

They need expert guidance on how to structure exam responses. This is where experienced tutors and teachers can really make a difference in these final weeks.

Here is a successful lesson I prepared for a Year 13 A level English Language student who needed clarity on how to prepare an exam answer for a thorny comparison question.

✅ I offered example responses of different grade levels.

✅ I broke down what a good response looks like using a scaffold.

✅ I then helped craft a response with a student and feedback immediately.

✅ I demystified the mark scheme and assessment objectives so the student knew exactly what skills are needed.

This is neither easy nor simple to do. I have 20 years of teaching, examination and curriculum leadership experience that help students successfully cross the line every year.

Get in touch if you would like some last minute support with your examination prep. I have just a couple of spaces left in my GCSE revision workshops over the Easter break.

You’re nearly there!! 💪🏼

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My second release of #GCSE #englishliterature #revision sessions are now available to book.

Previously hugely successful, grab some accountability and guidance during the Easter break with your final push towards exams.

Remember: English Lit P1 is on 12th May. It’s early this year!

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Common view: Group tuition can’t offer the same personalised focus as 1:1 tuition.

Me: I had a super lesson last night with my Y9 ‘Get GCSE Ready’ group that tailored all of the lesson content to the skills and texts each student is currently studying at school.

✅ Each student was giving an extract from the text they are studying at school and then asked to annotate it based on a wider question.

✅ Next, students had to either write a paragraph analysing meaning from the extract or complete a grid of evidence and skills - based on their confidence and experience with writing analytically.

⭐️ Both the extracts and writing task were tailored to where each of my students is in terms of their literature writing skills.

✅ Then we shared what had been completed so students could read and learn from each other’s writing.

Learning from each other and applying it to their own knowledge and skill level is a fundamental part of my group tuition. It works wonders as students can feel proud of their writing following feedback from others.

💰 And students receive all of this for only a fraction of the price of 1:1 sessions, in groups no larger than six students.

🗣️ Get in touch if you would like to join my Monday after school Y9 group class or my Y10 class from as little as £25 per hour.

🗣️ Dates for intensive GCSE group sessions during the Easter holidays will be released soon. Get in touch to secure your place! 🐣

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Revision! Year 11 students feel like they are wading through it…😩

…and it’s only going to get more intense as exams creep up.

Students are more informed than ever before in how to revise: with techniques like ‘flashcards’, ‘sketchnoting’, and ‘spaced retrieval of knowledge’ etc, all increasingly baked into school based revision. However, HOW to approach and organise the content that needs revising is often the trickiest part for students and this confusion is the main reason I receive panicked voice notes from students wondering if they are revising the right things. 🫨

⭐️ My solution? Start them early. ⭐️

1. In my Year 10 GCSE group class this evening, students were demonstrating their understanding of themes in Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.

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2. Then they were asked to identify where they saw the same theme evident in another text they have studied and explain how similarly or differently the theme is explored.

The result?

👏🏻 Retrieval of texts previously studied from long term memory awakens knowledge and embeds it further.

👏🏻A deeper understanding of abstract concepts like guilt, greed and love encourage a more sophisticated interpretation across multiple texts.

⭐️Our brains learn best when we are connecting information, not separating it! ⭐️

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If you want high quality, experienced and research-informed tuition across English, Maths and Science, get in touch. I have one space in the Year 10 class I teach on Wednesdays and a growing team of experienced teacher tutors who offer superb support across a range of subjects.

📲 Follow us for ‘exam ready’ revision sessions coming soon!

This is the face of ‘active relaxation’ - the best way I can describe a skiing holiday! ⛷️

Mindful, yet active, with the outdoors as indoors for most of the week, the sole focus of getting down a mountain safely and enjoying forced retreat on chairlifts with the roof of the world as your view does nothing but good for the body and soul. 💙

As a solo business owner and single mum, the hours are long and the mind often crowded; this week, I had time to leave the list of jobs at home and enjoyed seeing my children zoom down mountains and feel thoroughly grateful for their experience.

I have returned refreshed (if a little bruised!) and reminded of how important breaks in scenery and mind are for us to remain productive and inspired.

Lots of poetry and writing prompts about the mountains are coming in my sessions over the next couple of weeks to keep the snow-drenched dream alive. 🏔️

How have you switched off from a screen and the world during half term?

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3️⃣ of my favourite and most effective teaching approaches at A level (and any level!)…

1. What are the ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES for an exam question? (A level examinations are very much led by the AO skills in their mark schemes)

2. How can that knowledge be SCAFFOLDED into an exam response? (Quite the leap to make!)

3. What does a MODEL response look like? (Provides real-life clarity from the scaffold)

These teaching strategies are proven to reduce COGNITIVE LOAD (overwhelm) in students and help them gain clarity and confidence for exam performance.

Get in touch if you would like to benefit from high-quality and research-based teaching in English, Maths and Science!

I’m waiting for an update on how my student in this lesson does in their A level mocks this week! 🤞🏼

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‘I’m so glad I got in touch! You’ve made me feel much better!’

Not a student this time, but a parent. 🥰

Tutors are in the world of improving confidence and outcomes for your people.

However, in reality, we really have two clients: students AND parents.

Making parents feel at ease and listened to is as important as supporting their children.

The lovely end of conversation comment above came following an enquiry from a parent of a home educated student.

Many parents who home educate are fantastic educators for their children when they are younger but the demands of GCSE study means they need honest and professional support from qualified subject experts. The sudden change from being the source of a child’s education to needing outside support can cause some anxiety so I try to offer the following during my first communication with parents:

✅ Advice on the best routes for home educated students for exams- demystifying the range of qualifications and options available and making sure students pick the best option for them.

✅ Flexible times and assessment options as part of my tuition packages.

✅ Support with advice for other subjects, whether that be through own my own team of super English, Maths and Science tutors or my wider professional network of educators.

✅ Bespoke resources and self-published work books to help students progress independently outside of sessions with me.

On this occasion, I found my knowledge of English Language options for home educated students and my willingness to investigate support for other subjects helped the parent I was talking to so much that I could hear the relief in her voice when I told her the support I could find for her.

Home education parents are absolute warriors, treading a path with their children that can be relentless but also rewarding. An informed, experienced and professional ear can be just the support they need as their children move towards external examinations.

👩🏼‍💻Get in touch if you would like a 🆓 20 minute discovery call about the range of expert tuition Hope Tuition Clinic can offer your child in English, Maths and Science.

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🎵 Don’t write words. Write music 🎵

This is a well known template that I use with students when teaching them about the power and impact of sentence variety.

I’m a fan of the highlighter 🖍️as a way of tracking sentence types used in writing. This template serves as an extreme example of why we vary sentences and - more importantly - how AWARE students need to be as writers of their sentence structure and its effects.

Often students are too concerned with over stuffing too-long sentences with inaccurate multi-clause descriptions that are founded on clumsy adjectives and imagery.

Get the basics right. True writing is not Dickensian in scope these days, but controlled and with spots of flair.

Try it. How aware are you of the sentences you write?

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🗣️ Parents

💡How often does your teen struggle with #writing quality analytical paragraphs in #English?

💡How often do they see models prepared by #teachers and/or #tutors and dissect them so they can improve their own #exam responses?

💡How often does your teen hear their teacher or tutor live-write models for them and talk them through their thought processes?

Both #modelling and thinking aloud are important tools in making #skills visible for #students, and when it comes to a skill as cognitively challenging as #essay writing, giving students access to #models and expert thinking demystifies essay writing and lessens the cognitive load associated with writing.

The example in this post is a slide taken from a lesson I led for two students pushing for a Grade 9 (hopefully) this summer. Thinking of the questions posed at the top of the article, I decided:

💡To show a typical English Language and English Literature paragraph side-by-side to address misconceptions many students (and teachers!) make regarding analytical writing in these two strands of English study.

💡I deliberately wrote a non-language focused literature response to guide students away from the Language Paper ‘word-level’ analysis that students erroneously apply throughout Literature exam responses.

Instead, we unpicked the differences between the two paragraphs and what made the literature response successful.

💡The activity was illuminating as I could talk through my own thought process as well, and guide my students on how to critically engage with an essay question and its range of interpretations.

Practice makes Perfect: and my students came away from our session with clarity about how to move away from Language-style responses and to elevate their own interpretations and engagement with the range of writers’ methods used in texts studied in English Literature.

👩🏼‍💻 Get in touch if you would like bespoke, #expert examination preparation for #GCSE success in English, #Maths and #Science. All our tutors are #experienced #qualified classroom practitioners with #examiner experience. We bring the best of our #knowledge to improve student #confidence and attainment.

🗡️ What does it mean to be a good leader?🗡️

This is a timely question circling many minds amid the vapour trail of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

As always, Shakespeare’s wisdom reaches us across the centuries on this subject, and no more so than in the timeless #GCSE play, ‘Macbeth’.

Many of us know the story about a ‘tyrant whose name blisters our tongues’, but it was only when I was #teaching a scene in the middle of the play - where the characters of Malcolm and Macduff discuss the ‘stanchless avarice’ that often accompanies being a king - that I found uncomfortable echoes of this week’s oligarchic circus in Washington.

Linking texts studied to the wider world is an important teaching approach to secure #engagement and #comprehension among #students. My home-educated tutee was left rooted in a scene often overlooked in teaching because of its lack of obvious action compared to others.

In the play, descriptions of Scotland suffering ‘new sorrows’ that ‘yelled out like a syllable of dolor’ seemed to encapsulate what many are feeling in America (and spoken by the brave Bishop of Washington during her sermon to Trump.)

As my tutee and I read Act 4 Scene 3 and found evidence of the ‘tyrant’ king being described, the parallels with Trump were both frightening and illuminating:

‘Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name’. 😳

Despite the discomfort of potential parallels between medieval Scotland and the USA in 2025, the relevance of English Literature to engage, educate and speak of the human condition shone through for my student.

#Education is a tool and a universal right. #Educators can view their role now with more urgency and importance than ever before. We cannot ignore or protect our children from the world unravelling before us. Instead, we can do what we are good at: educating young people - through the subjects we teach - to understand the world around them and make better choices.

Get in touch if you would like intelligent and thought-provoking approaches to #englishliterature #learning. It is a subject way more important than just an exam to pass.

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Sausage rolls + Maths + Literacy = improved learning!

What a combo!

Today I crossed the tutoring subject divide and spoke to a selection of Maths tutors in @osmondeducation ‘s Maths Hub about how they can improve their own literacy understanding and teaching strategies to boost student understanding in Maths.

Many students (me included back in the day!) struggle with the layers of instructions and ‘scenarios’ placed with Maths questions that can obscure the real Maths behind the questions.

I offered practical strategies for unpicking the language behind Maths through approaches such as:

🧮 STORYTELLING to introduce scenarios and get students engaged in the subject
🧮 PRE-TEACHING Tier 3 and Tier 2 vocabulary through synonyms, etymology and summarising.
🧮 WORD LEVEL conjunction use to explore causality and sequencing in answering questions.

As usual, I over delivered and in the words of one participant: ‘my mind is blown’ 🤯

Get in touch if you would like support with disciplinary literacy as a tutor or teacher. It really is a game changer to improve learning in non-literacy based subjects.

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📣 Parents: mock results are in! 📣

How have your children fared?

Mocks come with a mixture of disappointment for some and affirmation of hard work and improving performance for others.

However, they are just that: a mock. They are not a result; they often only examine half of the exam specification. This can be humbling and hopeful for all concerned.

Whatever the results, your children have a choice: to be galvanised and push forward with concrete feedback and areas for improvement, or be resigned with poor performance, dogged with doubt and disengagement.

Tuition can help to scoop up and support students to avoid disengagement. As part of my tuition service as an experienced teacher and ex-examiner, I offer my students a mock ‘post mortem’: a personalised review of mock papers with bespoke targets for improvement and sessions tailored to focus on results in areas needed the most.

What inevitably comes out of such evaluations is the need for more planning, structure and disciplined approaches to managing time and ideas in exams.

So much of my time in tuition this term will be teaching the above repeatedly to students.

If your child needs support for that final push towards exams this year, get in touch. We can offer bespoke English 📕 Maths 🧮 and Science 🧪 tuition to support student responses with more clarity and direction.

With over 80 years of combined teaching experience in my growing team, let’s make sure your child is galvanised for the run up to Easter and have a clear strategy for improvement. 💪🏼

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January’s English Tutors’ Hive is here. 🐝

In this month’s session we will be discussing how to teach #STRUCTURE in GCSE English examination responses.

#Planning and structuring responses is often the least taught, yet the most impactful #strategy #students can use to support disciplined #writing in #examination conditions.

School #curricula are so packed that skills and content are prioritised whilst scaffolds for structural approaches to exam questions are often under taught.

This is where YOU 🫵🏼 as a #tutor can make a difference: by filling the gaps often not taught in schools.

In all my years of teaching, tutoring and examining, I’ve learnt that precise and focused planning within a robust and easy to learn structure leads to improved #performance in #exams.

Join us and share your new year English development priorities, share ideas that work in teaching structure and learn how to formulate a structure of your own to improve student #attainment in examinations.

Join (with FREE recording and teaching resources) for just £10 via the link below 👇🏼

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🐝 See you on Wednesday 22nd January at 12.30pm GMT 🐝

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The English GCSE Curriculum is dominated by WASPS 🐝!!

By that I mean White Anglo Saxon Protestant Males. 👨🏼👨🏼👨🏼👨🏼👨🏼

Y9 is a great opportunity to teach GCSE skills with more relevant texts that speak to young people and my multi-ethnic Y9 group.

A sound knowledge of school curricula and the GCSE syllabus is essential to dovetail learning in a way that enhances knowledge but, at the same time, increases student enjoyment and engagement with such a wonderful subject as English!

Get in touch if you’d like to join my small groups for pre GCSE and GCSE support.

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A modern parable about motivation...⏩

Sir Christopher Wren went walkabout during the construction of his famous cathedral in London and encountered three different workmen contributing to the build of his ‘grand design’. ⛪️

When Sir Christopher asked the first workman what he was doing, he replied ‘I am cutting stone’.

The second replied ‘I’m building a wall’.

The third replied proudly, ‘I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build a grand cathedral!’.

What this little triad of interviews tells us is that we all need a healthy balance of attention to small details in our work (cutting bricks) as well as how our work contributes to a wider vision (a cathedral).

For those among us working towards mock exams after Christmas, where the ‘cutting stone’ tasks seem harder to commit to than ever, remember the cathedral you’re building for your future.

Any building or vision is nothing without strong foundations.

Have a lovely break everyone and keep laying those bricks!

Andrea 👷‍♀️🎉

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🔔 It’s Masterclass season at Hope Learning! 🔔

I’ve been busy ( and full of flu!) over the last couple of weeks. But there’s nothing like the pressure of presenting to 200 + students that makes one reach for the lemsip and crack on! 🤧

#Mocks are on the horizon again after Christmas and I’ve spent two evenings with Rachel Stuart’s cohort of committed students following her @themindsetlabs ACE #study skills course, advising them on how to improve their #essay #writing and approaches to English Language exams.

I was also invited into @wardle_academy to stretch #GCSE students and KS3 #students with their knowledge and skills in #creativewriting and A Christmas Carol.

I’m always impressed and uplifted at the this time of year by the resilience and focus of students with their learning, especially when we hear too much in the press about student disengagement.

I’ve enjoyed seeing students focused and engaged with the texts and writing they have produced!

It’s been just the tonic I’ve needed to help me get through my boxes of tissues! 🤧

Get in touch if you’d like access to my #masterclass #content or video recordings. Great for #revision!

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🐝 Thursday 12th December 1pm. 🐝

Save the date!

December’s English Tutors’ Hive is here. 🐝

In this week’s session we will be discussing how to teach #STRUCTURE in GCSE English examination responses.

#Planning and structuring responses is often the least taught, yet the most impactful strategy #students can use to support disciplined #writing in #examination conditions.

School curriculum content is so packed that skills and content are prioritised whilst scaffolds for structural approaches to exam questions are often lacking.

This is where YOU 🫵🏼 as a #tutor can make a difference by plugging the gaps often not taught in schools.

In all my years of teaching, tutoring and examining I’ve learnt that precise and focused planning within a confident structure leads to improved #performance.

Come and join us and reflect on your term’s successes and pinch points, share ideas that work in teaching structure and learn how to formulate a structure of your own to improve student #attainment in examinations.

Join for just £10 via the link below 👇🏼

Click on the link below to pay now - https://pay.tide.co/e4aecba6-d48f-4a89-b322-0d5255b22665

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Essay planning 🤯

This is often one of the most troublesome aspects of students’ revision and directly affects successful performance in exams.

🤔 Many students know their Literature texts well at GCSE but their ability to apply their knowledge can often see marks depressed beyond what they are capable of.

👩🏼‍🏫 Teachers are busy teaching curriculum content and micro skills such as paragraph writing and language analysis, so the bigger picture of how to craft an argument to an exam question is sometimes explicitly not taught as much as it could be.

✍🏼 Now we are deep in mock season, and most Y11 students are opening an advent calendar of different exams (rather than chocolates) each day, tried and tested frameworks to support essay planning are where tutors can bridge the gap between lessons and exams.

My template here works a treat and can be transferred to any literature essay once individual elements of the framework have been taught.

How do the teenagers you interact with plan their responses? An essay that has been routinely planned always scores higher than one that hasn’t in the exam. 🏆

📣 Get in touch if you would like more information on how to plan and write stellar English Literature responses at GCSE and A level.

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💫This is a myth busting post about learning that many students are unaware of.

Educators now know that retrieval and spaced revisiting of previously learned information halts the forgetting curve for students and helps students remember more of what they’ve learnt 🧠

However, many schools still do not build frequent retrieval of previous learned material into its curricula.

This is where an experienced tutor can help. 🦸🏼‍♀️

Frequent planning and teaching of previously learnt material can aid retention, improve confidence and working memory in students.

However, not all tutors are schooled in cognitive science practice and it is essential tutors are aware of the best way that the brain learns in order to have the crucial impact they can in a student’s learning. 📈

You can always practise retrieval yourself as a student or with your child as a parent. Plan for regular revisiting of previously learnt material as part of homework - it’s a great way of you getting to know the subjects your child is studying and helping them retain and revisit content.

The brain can remember a wonderfully large amount of knowledge and skill - if we give it the right key 🔑

Follow me for more pedagogical and teaching content.

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It’s coursework season for A level students. ✍🏼

And I love supporting young people with this wonderful feature of the A level Literature and A level language courses.

This week was joyous as I helped a Year 13 student organise and prioritise their ideas in response to a coursework question.

👩🏼‍🎓 The beauty of A level is that it offers students a self-directed written task that is a great taste of undergraduate study.

This task is often double edged in that students can really immerse themselves in an area of literature they love and craft their own question around it, but also they can have, what one student called: ‘a fizzy head’ 🫨 with lots of ideas circulating but not knowing how to pin them down.

That’s where I come in.

With guided questions and visual support, I find students both calmed and inspired by a ‘guided tether’ for their ideas.

This Year 13 student left refreshed and eager to get started on her plan following my #miro board organisation of her ideas. 🚀

📧 Get in touch if you would like more information about A level English Literature or English Language. As a current coursework exam centre moderator, I can offer supported planning and drafting of A level coursework in line with assessment guidance.

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How is your child feeling about Mock Exams?

My tutees swing from feeling focussed and planning ahead 🧘, to ostriches 😖 ignoring the tick-tock countdown to next month’s ‘yardstick’ exams. This is what I tell my students:

✅ Mocks are way more intense than real GCSEs
✅ Exams are spread over a tighter time span than final GCSE exams.
✅ There is much less time for revision and practice before Mock Exams than in the Summer.
✅ Full exam content is unlikely to be tested as some elements of the course may not be completed yet.

Despite these differences, Mock Exams are just that - practice at experiencing the real thing. A test of a test to see how students fare in the world of high-stakes exam performance, rather than just learning in the classroom, and they remain a useful yardstick for teachers to measure progress.

With all of this in mind, how can you support your teenager in these last intense few weeks before Mock Exams?

⭐️ Source bite-sized revision material that will give your teen a structured approach to their revision. There are a plethora of YouTube and revision books for GCSE students. However, many seem overwhelming and expensive; your school or a trusted tutor can advise where to turn for the best support.

⭐️ Look for intensive online or in-school booster revision sessions. In-person or online tuition can boost a students progress by up to four months if sourced and delivered properly.

⭐️ Many tutors and teachers offer recorded online revision content that can guide and support students with a revision framework in their own time.

⭐️ With many teachers hard to reach at school and not available over the Half Term break, many experienced tutors will offer guidance and advice for worried parents, who want to know how to support their children with ongoing revision.

🫵🏼 What do you think your child would prefer to help them with revision? Let’s get their head out of the sand and make the most of the next few weeks before mocks creep up and lead to stress that can be avoided.

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⭐️This isn’t sexy but it’s important. ⭐️

I am staggered by the amount of students I tutor who have not been taught to read short extracts properly - and by properly I mean actively - for the GCSE English Language exams. 😳

I say to all of my students that success in this race of an exam can be determined by how well students actively read and prepare the sources they are given.

Last night, with Y10 students, I spent a whole hour on ‘how to read’ the sources. Sounds laborious but it is necessary.

Students often blindly highlight and misread passively before answering the questions in the exams and it undoes them. 😲

My main strategy is:

1. Read the questions first so you know what to keep in mind when you read the source. (make sure you know which lines are needed for each question!)

2. Read and just make sure you understand what’s going on. Ask yourself WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? These simple questions will make sure you do not miss something or someone important in the text when your head can be swimming in an exam.

3. Annotate carefully. I teach annotation skills visually using concentric circles of skills as seen on my slide. We practice this intensively as it is a vital skill for Literature as well.

3. Identify the BIG IDEAS coming through the text. Is it one of happiness? Sadness? Suffering? Jealousy? These will help you conceptually when answering the questions.

I do offer more precise reading strategies for the thorny Q3 structure question (on the AQA) exam as well but knowledge about how to actively read and prepare a text before using it to answer questions is vital to do well in English Language - as well as other subjects where referring to texts or diagrams is part of the assessment.

📣 Parents: check. Does your child have a strategy to read and prepare the text?

📣 Tutors: check. Has your student been taught any strategies. If so, can you work with them? If they haven’t, make it part of your focus to teach them.

Tuition really does plug the knowledge and skills gap for many students. Let’s rise to this opportunity.

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Want to know what teaching A level English Language requires?

Students just can’t get enough of:

✅ Assessment Objectives: these key descriptors RULE at A level and knowing how to write to them and include them in responses is crucial for success.

✅ Linguistic terminology: the ability to look at short texts and identify linguistic devices and how they contribute to meaning is a major skill needed. And there is A LOT of linguistic terminology to learn at A level. 🤯

✅ Context links: How does the purpose, audience, genre and creator of the text influence the language used?

🪜 Scaffold and model until confidence and mastery is achieved.

Rinse and repeat!

⭐️ English Language A level has very little in common with its drier namesake at GCSE. It is an introduction to a variety of areas of linguistics and what drives meaning in our wonderful language. ⭐️

If you’re in Y11 and considering Sixth Form applications for next year, get in touch for a taster lesson in A level English Language or Literature. You won’t be disappointed!

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Did you know I also offer examination marking? ✍🏼 👩🏼‍🏫

With 20 years teaching experience, including GCSE and A level English Literature examining, I offer a comprehensive marking service*.

This includes:

✅ Detailed annotations of exam responses
✅Mark scheme breakdowns
✅Summative comments including strengths and targets for improvement
✅Verbal feedback via voice note

The only way to really improve, ready for exams, is to practise running the race! 🏃🏼‍♀️

📧 Get in touch if you would like to submit an examination response to improve your chances of exam success.

*This service is included for all existing Hope students.

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🍂 Autumn has arrived with a bang. 🍂

Now the back-to-school routine is in place (we hope!) and September is whizzing by, I thought I’d stop and look at my goals for this term. 🎯

It’s a useful task to take stock of where I am in my teaching, writing and training, and where I want to be by Christmas and beyond. I found breaking my goals into months with end of month deadlines, helped me to position what I need to do .

But then came the ‘how’ I am going to achieve these goals. 😳

Whilst I was pleased with the focus and organisation from making sense of my goals, when I thought about the ‘how’ I was going to achieve them, I began to feel overwhelmed by what lay ahead.

I think this feeling is similar for my students.

Often they know the grade they desire or are predicted, but less sure about how to reach their goal.

How can we reduce the rudderless overwhelm that can cause such anxiety in young people?

Reaching the end of GCSEs is a little like crossing a crevasse - it cannot be achieved in one jump. Instead, it must be approached with care, taking slow and careful steps along the rungs of a ladder. 🪜

Rather than focusing on reaching the other side, mountaineers manage their careful progress, one rung at a time.

I call this my ‘+1’: what is the ‘one thing’ I can do to help my reach my goal?

And so, with that bite-size approach, my first ‘+1’ came to me. I forgot about the ‘crevasse of failure’ from not reaching the other side; I decided to just edge forward, one rung at a time.

Maybe young people should focus more on reaching a rung of the ladder rather than the end of their goal. Before they know it, they will find themselves on the other side and far more prepared for their next ‘climb’.

What do you think your child’s ‘+1’ could be now to help them on their journey to GCSE success? 🪜 🏆

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If ever there was a reason to re-read those GCSE and A level Literature texts, it’s here!! ☝🏼☝🏼

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Hands up if your child has sometimes viewed creative writing at GCSE as an artificial and joyless process? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Stripped of spontaneity and imagination, students can dread and underperform in the writing section of their exams: a section that offers them 50% of their overall marks.

So, I’m putting the joy, imagination and creativity back into ‘creative’ writing by asking students to develop their very own fictional character, one they can ‘drop in’ to any creative writing scene they may be asked to write about. 😍

This week, students in Years 9, 10 and 11 have all been creating and developing characters of their own - from tear-jerking backstories to the way they walk and whether they have a traumatic past - it has been an imaginative and immersive task: one students have loved.

The level of engagement and detail students have brought to their writing has been impressive and we will continue to clothe, develop and immerse our characters in a variety of scenes so that, by the time examinations or assessments roll around, each student will have a fictional hand to hold as they write and breathe life into their own imaginations. 🤝

🫵🏼 Would you like a template of my character building task for your students or children at home? The best tasks are those that can work with students from 10-17 so DM me for the link and I will include you on my character quest. 🔗

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Saturday inspiration with the Hope Hound, some sunshine and a podcast!

What are you doing to relax this weekend?

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#mondaymotivation for students and parents!

Be reliable. It’s not as common as we think…

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At GCSE, creative writing is often taught in short blocks at school and often sacrificed on the altar of heavy literature content.

However, writing is a joy, an expressive release and worth 50% of the overall mark in English Language GCSE. It needs to be practised regularly just like any skill, in order to become better.

This is my aim this year. More writing, more examples, more experimenting and more joy. I can’t wait to share my ongoing writing focus with my students this year.

Get in touch if you would like regular writing support for your child.

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Reduce anxiety and overwhelm at the start of this new school year with a TO START list rather than a TO DO list. 📋

✅ Break down tasks into smaller actionable steps.

✅ Focus on the most important starting point rather than anything big you need to do.

✅ At the end of the week review your TO START list and adjust based on priorities or how achievable your steps were. (This a great conversation a parent can have with their child to improve reflective thinking)

Remember: the hardest part about change is NOT making the same decisions as the day before.

One step at a time! 🪜

You’ve got this. Good luck for the term and year ahead! 💪🏼

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