Subject Specific Professional Development by English teachers, for English teachers | CFSA Member | Reg. Charity #Litdrive
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📣 New strapline, live on our site today: Teacher-led. Subject-driven.
‘Better balance’ has served us well. This says what we are: built by English teachers, built around the subject.
litdrive.org.uk 🐝
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🗓️ Happy half term! You’ve earned a proper rest.
Put the marking down, pick up a book you’ve chosen yourself, and enjoy the break.
See you on the other side.
🐝 #Litdrive #EnglishTeaching #TeacherWellbeing
💡 Adapting a shared trust curriculum? Rikki Gould asks: what must stay consistent, what can change, and how do you know the change improves learning?
Read ‘Adapting a Trust-Wide Curriculum’ 👉 buff.ly/vMcWDqv
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🗓️ Primary English leads: 90 minutes to share what's working and work through live challenges together.
'Primary Subject Leaders' Community Forum' with Ollie Cakebread, Thu 29 Oct, 4.00-5.30pm. Free for members.
Book here 👉 buff.ly/1rnfwMX
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💬 Half term is nearly here. What’s worked well in your English classroom since September?
Share one lesson, text, or classroom material in the replies, or add it to our member-shared library: buff.ly/WdyPSpT
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📚 Year 9 conflict poetry: a 17-lesson scheme of work from Laura Cooke that builds technical terms first, then what, how, why essays. Member-shared and ready to teach.
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Be inspired by a Trust Director of English in W/Mids. Sharing their experience of using the Diverse Literature in School resources to resist the 'single story' when they #diversifythecurriculum #decolonisethecurriculum lnkd.in/p/gw6-WcxP @EnglishAssoc @NATEfeed @LitdriveUK
📖 A 2022 survey of secondary teachers in Wales found just six global majority authors taught, and none in Welsh-language texts.
Members can download @drsaraholive and Mary Davies’ National Conference 2026 slides: buff.ly/BNAZtHh
🐝 #EnglishTeachers #DiverseLiterature
🗓️ Leading English across a trust? This one's for you.
Join our 'Trust English Leads' Community Forum' with Noureddine Mlaouhi today, Thu 15 Oct, 4.00-5.30pm.
Free for members, £5 for non-members.
Book here: buff.ly/wXD8i04 🐝
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💡 Teaching a poem, or teaching a reader of poetry?
That distinction shapes a whole unit. It grows from deep subject knowledge.
Members can read our blog 'The Power of Subject Knowledge' now.
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📚 Looking for Black History Month reads for KS3 to KS5 this October?
Litdrive member JCA has shared seven book picks by Black writers, each matched to what students might already enjoy.
Explore the classroom materials: buff.ly/DdeScbJ
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📖 How much context is enough context?
'The Past is a Foreign Country: Teaching Context(s) in Literature' with Dr Rachel Roberts, in our online CPD library. 20-40 minutes, whenever suits you.
Watch here 👉 buff.ly/033gsAj
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📣 Our 2025/26 impact report is out now.
A year of member-shared classroom materials, CPD, and English teachers supporting each other.
Read it here 👉 buff.ly/EnMAxUh
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💬 Volunteering with Litdrive isn't just about classroom materials.
Deliver a subject knowledge session, write a guest blog, or join an advisory or leadership panel.
Get in touch: buff.ly/4uLORGR 🐝 #Litdrive #EnglishTeaching
🗓️ Leading English? Don't work it all out alone.
Join Chris Curtis and fellow subject leaders for 'Subject Leaders' Community Forum (Autumn)' today (Tue 6 Oct), 5.00pm to 6.30pm.
Free for members, £5 for non-members 👉 buff.ly/FJvvxmU
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💡 Could live feedback beat the purple pen?
Allison Chambers-Boreland explores how marking while students are still mid-thought might make feedback land sooner.
Read more 🐝 buff.ly/hkXRP8I
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📚 Thu 1 Oct is National Poetry Day, and this year's theme is Wonder.
We've gathered member-shared classroom materials to help you bring a little wonder into your poetry lessons.
Find them all at buff.ly/jV0mOEn 🐝
#Litdrive #EnglishTeaching #NationalPoetryDay
🗓️ October's Community Forums:
Tue 6 Oct: Subject Leaders, Chris Curtis
Wed 7 Oct: Early Career Teachers, Hayley Bissell
Thu 15 Oct: Trust English Leads, Noureddine Mlaouhi
Thu 29 Oct: Primary Subject Leaders, Ollie Cakebread
Book 👉 buff.ly/YL7qNl3 🐝 #Litdrive
All times UK time:
Tue 6 Oct, 5.00-6.30pm
Wed 7 Oct, 4.00-5.30pm
Thu 15 Oct, 4.00-5.30pm
Thu 29 Oct, 4.00-5.30pm
Every forum is led by practising English teachers, specialists, and academics. Book your place: buff.ly/YL7qNl3
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📖 Are your assessments helping students learn, or just measuring them?
@s_donarski shares how in-lesson checks and fewer, more purposeful larger assessments can spiral through KS3 and KS4.
Explore the slides: buff.ly/0yZ3SZq 🐝 #Litdrive #EnglishTeaching
📣 Subject-specific CPD for your whole English team, in one membership.
Every teacher gets full Litdrive membership: more than 1m curriculum downloads, CPD events, and a national voice.
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