Jane Bilham

As a wonderful mentor sagely advised – there’s nothing new in teaching, just a cycle of approaches that become more and less fashionable over time. I blame her for my hoarding tendencies as she also gave this as a reason to ‘never throw anything away’ – something I quite literally […]

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Top of my hitlist this week (and possibly my whole teaching career) has been sentence starters. My aim? To banish ‘The’ and ‘I’ from the openings of our imaginative writing responses and enlighten students on the vast array of alternatives that are available to them. Applying some thought So often, […]

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