MrsM
@educiting.bsky.social
Secondary English Teacher (UK)
Deputy HOD, KS4 lead; Examiner; Reading/Oracy lead; MA Women and writing; CELTA, MA English in Education; BBC Bitesize writer and reviewer
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Deputy HOD, KS4 lead; Examiner; Reading/Oracy lead; MA Women and writing; CELTA, MA English in Education; BBC Bitesize writer and reviewer
#UKEd
#EduSky
#UKteaching
#EdUK
Summer reading:
Been on my TBR pile for a while. Really enjoyed it. Recommend.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Been on my TBR pile for a while. Really enjoyed it. Recommend.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Summer reading:
Been on my TBR pile for a while. Really enjoyed it. Recommend.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Been on my TBR pile for a while. Really enjoyed it. Recommend.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
A beautiful gem of a book - just 154 pages. Highly recommend.
July 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A beautiful gem of a book - just 154 pages. Highly recommend.
Enjoyable day at Voice 21’s Speaking Summit in London. Particularly good to hear from teachers enacting an oracy education.
March 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Enjoyable day at Voice 21’s Speaking Summit in London. Particularly good to hear from teachers enacting an oracy education.
Release by Isabel Galleymore
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Release by Isabel Galleymore
Flies by Alice Oswald in her collection: Falling Awake.
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Flies by Alice Oswald in her collection: Falling Awake.
Loving myself in a land that doesn’t love me by Roger Robinson and Johny Pitts from Home is not a place.
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Loving myself in a land that doesn’t love me by Roger Robinson and Johny Pitts from Home is not a place.
Enough by Suzanne Buffam (originally shared by John McCullough)
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Enough by Suzanne Buffam (originally shared by John McCullough)
Another 🔥 poem to add to teaching Unseen Poetry at #AlevelEnglishLit 🎓🍎
#TeamEnglish
For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.
#TeamEnglish
For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.
August 31, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Another 🔥 poem to add to teaching Unseen Poetry at #AlevelEnglishLit 🎓🍎
#TeamEnglish
For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.
#TeamEnglish
For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.
The other one I liked - and yes I will be using it to illustrate the theme of blood and hands in Macbeth #TeamEnglish - is this one:
Network of blood vessels in the human hand
Network of blood vessels in the human hand
August 27, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The other one I liked - and yes I will be using it to illustrate the theme of blood and hands in Macbeth #TeamEnglish - is this one:
Network of blood vessels in the human hand
Network of blood vessels in the human hand
Came across a set of fascinating research images from UCL 🍎🎓 1/2
This one is called: Accelerated Forgetting ‘This image shows responses to a memory test … participants copy a drawing, and then draw it again from memory three times’ at intervals.
www.ucl.ac.uk/gs/research-...
This one is called: Accelerated Forgetting ‘This image shows responses to a memory test … participants copy a drawing, and then draw it again from memory three times’ at intervals.
www.ucl.ac.uk/gs/research-...
August 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Came across a set of fascinating research images from UCL 🍎🎓 1/2
This one is called: Accelerated Forgetting ‘This image shows responses to a memory test … participants copy a drawing, and then draw it again from memory three times’ at intervals.
www.ucl.ac.uk/gs/research-...
This one is called: Accelerated Forgetting ‘This image shows responses to a memory test … participants copy a drawing, and then draw it again from memory three times’ at intervals.
www.ucl.ac.uk/gs/research-...
I use feeds to find them. These are mine but curate them to your interests. I also like the fact that you can search/ link by emoji 📌🍎🎓 are my current ones.
August 27, 2024 at 12:23 PM
I use feeds to find them. These are mine but curate them to your interests. I also like the fact that you can search/ link by emoji 📌🍎🎓 are my current ones.
Goodness I just tried this and it got worse! 🎓🍎
August 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Goodness I just tried this and it got worse! 🎓🍎
Eyemouth harbour (spot the seal)
Visiting family who live nearby
Yes!
Visiting family who live nearby
Yes!
August 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Eyemouth harbour (spot the seal)
Visiting family who live nearby
Yes!
Visiting family who live nearby
Yes!
Just to confirm: the seal this morning was clearly smiling at me, right?
Remind me again: why am I heading back down South for GCSE results when I could be beside the seaside a little longer?
#edusky
#summerholidays
Remind me again: why am I heading back down South for GCSE results when I could be beside the seaside a little longer?
#edusky
#summerholidays
August 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Just to confirm: the seal this morning was clearly smiling at me, right?
Remind me again: why am I heading back down South for GCSE results when I could be beside the seaside a little longer?
#edusky
#summerholidays
Remind me again: why am I heading back down South for GCSE results when I could be beside the seaside a little longer?
#edusky
#summerholidays
Last show we’re seeing at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Ari’ a Korean musical.
Hopefully can return next year - EdFringe is such a joyous event! 🏴 💕
Hopefully can return next year - EdFringe is such a joyous event! 🏴 💕
August 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Last show we’re seeing at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘Ari’ a Korean musical.
Hopefully can return next year - EdFringe is such a joyous event! 🏴 💕
Hopefully can return next year - EdFringe is such a joyous event! 🏴 💕
Day 2 of EdFringe
I think there are 4 of us in the audience for this one 😆
AND there is AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 😬 😱
‘We paint various pictures on stage using the traditional Korean hat called sangmo. You'll have a mysterious experience with us, and it will make you want to come back again.’
I think there are 4 of us in the audience for this one 😆
AND there is AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 😬 😱
‘We paint various pictures on stage using the traditional Korean hat called sangmo. You'll have a mysterious experience with us, and it will make you want to come back again.’
August 20, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Day 2 of EdFringe
I think there are 4 of us in the audience for this one 😆
AND there is AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 😬 😱
‘We paint various pictures on stage using the traditional Korean hat called sangmo. You'll have a mysterious experience with us, and it will make you want to come back again.’
I think there are 4 of us in the audience for this one 😆
AND there is AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 😬 😱
‘We paint various pictures on stage using the traditional Korean hat called sangmo. You'll have a mysterious experience with us, and it will make you want to come back again.’
Final show: Ha! Milton Jones comedy
August 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Final show: Ha! Milton Jones comedy
Second show: Afrique en Cirque
August 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Second show: Afrique en Cirque
August 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Still with me? 😆
15. Watermelon Man
Upbeat, gorgeous poem and with teacher hat on, fab for Unseen A level poetry comparison. For Edexcel, maybe with Please Hold/Furthest Distance/On Her Blindness compare the methods both poets use to explore human experiences or human interaction with the world.
15. Watermelon Man
Upbeat, gorgeous poem and with teacher hat on, fab for Unseen A level poetry comparison. For Edexcel, maybe with Please Hold/Furthest Distance/On Her Blindness compare the methods both poets use to explore human experiences or human interaction with the world.
August 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Still with me? 😆
15. Watermelon Man
Upbeat, gorgeous poem and with teacher hat on, fab for Unseen A level poetry comparison. For Edexcel, maybe with Please Hold/Furthest Distance/On Her Blindness compare the methods both poets use to explore human experiences or human interaction with the world.
15. Watermelon Man
Upbeat, gorgeous poem and with teacher hat on, fab for Unseen A level poetry comparison. For Edexcel, maybe with Please Hold/Furthest Distance/On Her Blindness compare the methods both poets use to explore human experiences or human interaction with the world.
12. Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith (2014) is 🔥
The art reference here is Hollywood movies, specifically Jurassic Park.
Again compare to Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn.
Also, I have a bit of an obsession with ekphrastic poems!
Again just the opening below:
The art reference here is Hollywood movies, specifically Jurassic Park.
Again compare to Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn.
Also, I have a bit of an obsession with ekphrastic poems!
Again just the opening below:
August 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
12. Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith (2014) is 🔥
The art reference here is Hollywood movies, specifically Jurassic Park.
Again compare to Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn.
Also, I have a bit of an obsession with ekphrastic poems!
Again just the opening below:
The art reference here is Hollywood movies, specifically Jurassic Park.
Again compare to Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn.
Also, I have a bit of an obsession with ekphrastic poems!
Again just the opening below:
11. Aubade with burning city by Ocean Vuong (2014)
The art reference is to the song: White Christmas
Ekphrastic poem to pair with Ode to a Grayson Perry urn.
This poem imo takes the idea of an ekphrastic poem to a completely new, intense level. 🤯
The poem opens:
The art reference is to the song: White Christmas
Ekphrastic poem to pair with Ode to a Grayson Perry urn.
This poem imo takes the idea of an ekphrastic poem to a completely new, intense level. 🤯
The poem opens:
August 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM
11. Aubade with burning city by Ocean Vuong (2014)
The art reference is to the song: White Christmas
Ekphrastic poem to pair with Ode to a Grayson Perry urn.
This poem imo takes the idea of an ekphrastic poem to a completely new, intense level. 🤯
The poem opens:
The art reference is to the song: White Christmas
Ekphrastic poem to pair with Ode to a Grayson Perry urn.
This poem imo takes the idea of an ekphrastic poem to a completely new, intense level. 🤯
The poem opens:
10. Eyewitness Travel or Self portrait in front of a small mirror by Will Harris (2017)
(Also, the poem Estruch references in the previous post Say by Will Harris is phenomenal.)
Possible comparison Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled - place/identity
(Also, the poem Estruch references in the previous post Say by Will Harris is phenomenal.)
Possible comparison Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled - place/identity
August 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
10. Eyewitness Travel or Self portrait in front of a small mirror by Will Harris (2017)
(Also, the poem Estruch references in the previous post Say by Will Harris is phenomenal.)
Possible comparison Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled - place/identity
(Also, the poem Estruch references in the previous post Say by Will Harris is phenomenal.)
Possible comparison Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled - place/identity
9. Say by Sarala Estruch
(2021) Father/daughter, memory. Also a ghazal: brilliant poetic couplet form.
Possible comparison (you may disagree) with Out of the Bag by Heaney
Also sharing another poem of hers ‘I research the origins of the modern rose & discover’ just because I love it ...
(2021) Father/daughter, memory. Also a ghazal: brilliant poetic couplet form.
Possible comparison (you may disagree) with Out of the Bag by Heaney
Also sharing another poem of hers ‘I research the origins of the modern rose & discover’ just because I love it ...
August 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
9. Say by Sarala Estruch
(2021) Father/daughter, memory. Also a ghazal: brilliant poetic couplet form.
Possible comparison (you may disagree) with Out of the Bag by Heaney
Also sharing another poem of hers ‘I research the origins of the modern rose & discover’ just because I love it ...
(2021) Father/daughter, memory. Also a ghazal: brilliant poetic couplet form.
Possible comparison (you may disagree) with Out of the Bag by Heaney
Also sharing another poem of hers ‘I research the origins of the modern rose & discover’ just because I love it ...