Happy Wednesday!

If you are in Year 10 and Year 11, you’ve probably headed back to school this week or you’re gearing up to return next week – either way, I want to make the transition back to school, back to class and back to mocks as EASY as possible for you!

As you know, AQA changed its exam fo...

English GCSE Masterclass:

Year 11 October Mocks & Resits

Can you believe it's GCSE Results Day?! Every year, I'm always so excited to hear from my former students.. how did you do? 😊

I also know there were many of you in Year 10 and others who are Parents of Year 10s (going into Year 11) who join...

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HAPPY FRIDAY! If this was your first week back in school – how was it? Exhausting? Tiring? Fun? Well done for surviving! 😊

I’m feeling generous this week and I’m back with another freebie – the PERFECT GCSE MODEL ANSWER for Language Paper 1, Question 2.

This is the “Language” question –...

Phew.. what a week it’s been! We had GCSE Results Day.. it’s almost the end of summer – where has the time gone?!

If you’re heading into Year 10 or Year 11, or you’re the parent of a child that’s heading into the critical “GCSE years” in school – now’s a good time to slowly ease back in.

It can be...

Dear Me (the slightly stressed, slightly clueless, slightly hopeful version),

You’re about to step into Year 11—and whether you realise it or not, this is going to be your year. Not because everything will be perfect (spoiler: it won’t), but because this is the year you’ll discover just how capable...

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It's close to a week since GCSE Results Day and interestingly GCSE pass rates went down. Close to 40% of Students FAILED English & Maths and AQA announced that grade boundaries went up to 'Pre-COVID' grades - meaning passing is now HARDER!

Yet on the same day (and every day since Results...

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I hope you’re having an amazing Sunday! This is just a reminder that TODAY I’ll be hosting my first GCSE English Masterclass of the year.. yaaay! 🎉

Join in, ask me as many questions as you want. We have MOCK EXAMS next month - so my aim is for EVERYONE in this class to go up by at least ...

Happy Monday! 😃

Yesterday I resumed my 5pm GCSE English Masterclass and what an AMAZING first lesson! It was so wonderful to have so, so many Year 9s, Year 10s and Year 11s joining in, super active and engaged – asking me questions, having practiced in advance of the class.

This is exactly why I r...

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Happy Friday! And as the week is winding down, I’m gearing up for my GCSE English Masterclass this Sunday at 5pm. 😃

We will cover the new 2026 Exam Paper format and go over AQA’s major changes to the exam format, how to boost your marks ahead of your OCTOBER MOCK EXAMS, plus how to impro...