Author Archives: sallythorne

#TLT16: Final keynote

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Lindsay Skinner invites us to consider teacher presence in the classroom. Think about what moves a lesson from a cover lesson to a lesson: the teacher. Focus on the voice, the body, the person. What is it that makes one … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 3

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Toby French on “Marking and assessment are not the same”. Why do we think marking is so important? We care. Read what students are writing, but it isn’t always necessary to mark all of it. CCTV for senior leaders – … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 2

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Stephanie Keenan on wider reading: the 7 year plan. What do we want the ideal A-level student to look like? This needs to be built from year 7. We discuss what our ideal students would look like. Do we agree … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 1

Posted on October 15, 2016 by sallythorne

Kamil Trzebiatowski is talking about EAL students and using academic language. As competent language users, we don’t see the language: it is like a window through which we look at the content. For children who struggle with it, the glass … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Opening Keynote

Posted on October 15, 2016 by sallythorne

John Tomsett begins by recommending Better by Atul Gawande: …memories of teachers taking something and applying it without thought, out of desperation for a quick fix. There isn’t a quick fix. Dylan Wiliam clip: “Sharing good practice” is a bad … Continue reading →

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#SHP16: My workshop

Posted on July 12, 2016 by sallythorne

This year at SHP my workshop was titled Stickability and it was all about classroom practice that helps to embed knowledge across the two year GCSE course. I’ve been dipping into Make It Stick all year and most of what … Continue reading →

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Resources for revising Crime and Punishment

Posted on June 4, 2016 by sallythorne

Just reading back over my last blog post. “Less busy”, haha. Anyway, I have a couple of helpful things to share. The first is a set of Crime and Punishment flashcards I made for my Y11s. These are modelled on … Continue reading →

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2015: That was the year that was

Posted on January 9, 2016 by sallythorne

2015 was an exceptionally busy work year, even for me. At school, I completed my first calendar year as Head of History. I oversaw a rise in the number of students opting for History GCSE, nearly launched a new A-level … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Assessments: Life After Levels

Posted on August 30, 2015 by sallythorne

During the holiday, I came across Alex Ford’s advice to a new HoD whose school is introducing GCSE criteria to grade KS3 students. I think I have mentioned before that I am also in that boat; it was comforting to see … Continue reading →

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What’s still good about SOLO

Posted on July 18, 2015 by sallythorne

I recently read this blog by Toby French, in which he shares the tale of his adventures with SOLO in the classroom and how he came to decide, at the end of it, that it was all castles in the … Continue reading →

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