Helene Galdin-O’Shea
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Helene Galdin-O’Shea
@hgaldinoshea.bsky.social
Ex-English/Media teacher, HoD, CPD Lead

Now Consultant Trainer.
It’s a moral mission: every student can and must leave school reading well.

researchED1 national co-ordinator https://www.researched.org.uk
An excellent piece, Ben. I’ve passed it on several times already over the last couple of weeks.
March 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Happy New Year to you and Howard! Sure hope we can catch up this year. X
December 31, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
And then the pressure from leaders to ‘support’ kids to ‘draft’ the piece … That was real.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 AM
All of those.
And you brought back the spectre of controlled assessment! I remember that some were basically reading a couple of scenes from R+J then watching the film (that’s what happened when my son was doing his GCSE course). When at school, he never read a whole Shakespeare play.
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM