How to survive and succeed for year 11s and 13s
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Jan 5, 2020
- 3 min
One year as a full time tutor
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Sep 16, 2019
- 5 min
"I'm not learning from my teacher!"
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
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Michelle Mapstone
- Jun 8, 2019
- 3 min
Word Academy Newsletter
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Apr 30, 2019
- 4 min
Exam technique: a moral dilemma
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Apr 11, 2019
- 6 min
An extremely subjective top 10 list of compelling kids books
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
Five Favourite Moments
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Mar 20, 2019
- 1 min
Comic Relief 2019
This Comic Relief, one of my primary classes put together a persuasive video about their choice of topic, homelessness. They've learned...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Mar 18, 2019
- 4 min
Time: a teacher's gift
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Mar 5, 2019
- 5 min
What to do (and what not to do) to get your revision to STICK!
I've been listening to a few podcasts recently and found Professor John Dunlosky's information that he recently shared with TES magazine...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Feb 18, 2019
- 5 min
A very practical guide to what your child should be revising for English
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Jan 27, 2019
- 6 min
A parent-teacher's guide to inspiring your child to LOVE reading
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Jan 25, 2019
- 5 min
A week in the life of a full-time tutor
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Nov 22, 2018
- 3 min
3 simple ways to boost your vocabulary
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Nov 6, 2018
- 3 min
Word Academy Month of Remembrance
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Oct 30, 2018
- 4 min
How to write a gothic short story in 20 minutes.
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...
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Michelle Mapstone
- Oct 25, 2018
- 0 min
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Michelle Mapstone
- Oct 14, 2018
- 1 min
Fate in Romeo and Juliet
If you need some GCSE tuition and live in the Bradford/ Keighley , have a look around my site. We would love to see you in one of our...
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