A year ago, year 11s and 13s thought they knew basically how their year would pan out: school, mocks, prom, exams, long summer and then...

18 months ago I set up Word Academy and a year ago today I was getting ready for my first week as a full time tutor. I had given up my...

At some point in your child's schooling you are bound to come across this statement. When I was younger, it was my maths teacher: she was ol

Welcome to my little newsletter. I thought I'd write this as a sum up of all of the bits and pieces that are going on at Word Academy and...

I bloody hate these exams. GCSEs and SATs have ripped the soul out of the education system over the past few years. Many of the things...

When people do these lists they tend to spend lots of time trying to look clever because that makes them sound like an expert and that's...

7 months since I opened, 10 months since I had the first thought of becoming an entrepreneur (Is that what I am??), here are my top 5...

This Comic Relief, one of my primary classes put together a persuasive video about their choice of topic, homelessness. They've learned...

It’s probably worth mentioning that time is something I have very little patience for. My natural approach to life is to jump into any...

I've been listening to a few podcasts recently and found Professor John Dunlosky's information that he recently shared with TES magazine...

It's February half term and let's admit it, the GCSEs are swimming nauseatingly near. For parents as well as teenagers, it's a...

Firstly, I will get my wavers in: I am not a perfect parent. My children are wild; they fight incessantly with each other; I let them get...

A few weeks into full-time and I'm settling in to my new speed of life. Days whizz by, evenings whizz by. I feel like I never stop...

Whether you are 8 or 88, we could all do with more vocabulary. Where would we be without the beauty of the words chatoyant (like a cat's...

This November in recognition of the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War One, Word Academy English Key Stage 4 classes are on the...

Last year, I was teaching my year 10 class and had asked them to write a gothic story in 200 words and in 20 minutes... The look on their...