Review – This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

What is it about? With an intended audience of younger people, this book seamlessly combines easy to access information relating to anti-racism with useful journalling ideas, to help readers actively engage with the topic. Not only does it explain difficult to grasp issues clearly, it is also an incredibly beautiful book – the illustrations, by

Working from Home – Reflection

Since Covid came and disrupted life as we knew it, I have found myself in a position where I have needed to teach my students online on multiple occasions. I have just got a temporary Secondary English teaching position for Term 4 and I will, once again, be teaching online. So, this, to me, felt

Review: How to Teach English Literature: Overcoming Cultural Poverty

In pretty much every area of my life, I have someone I look up to and Jennifer Webb has been a complete inspiration to me ever since I saw her speak at a conference in 2019. Out of everyone attending that day, I will never forget how she spoke with vibrance and passion about inclusion

Reflection: Protest and Equality SOW

As part of my CPD in gained time during lockdown last summer term (UK), I restructured our year 8 non-fiction unit to both decolonise and make it more specifically relevant to Bristol, the city I was teaching in. I originally wrote two blog posts exploring my decisions around crafting the ‘Protests and Equality’ scheme of

Re-introduction

I’ll be the first one to admit it – I started this blog last year, during lockdown, with the best of intentions. But it fizzled off due to many factors, but mostly because I was juggling work as well as travel exemption and visa applications, leaving little time for me to write as often as

Resource: KS3 Non-Fiction Scheme of Work (part one)

As part of our existing curriculum, the school I am at have year 8s starting on a non-fiction unit from September – December. The initial scheme included the following topics: Peterloo, The Industrial Revolution, India’s Clothing Workers, Slave Trade, Freedom Riders, Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Hillsborough and Grammar schools. Whilst I loved teaching this unit, it

Review – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Buy it here What is it about? I am a little late to the game with this book – well a lot late really! I’ve been meaning to read it for a while and ended up reading something else instead, until finally I decided to give it a go. I am a little gutted I

Review – Me & White Supremacy by Layla Saad

What is it about? Me & White Supremacy is an incredible book, designed to get you critically thinking about your own antiracist work. I have learned more about myself and our society over the 28 days I worked through that book than any other time in my life combined. Saad ingeniously and unapologetically defines different