Active English
Welcome to Active English
Active English is an energised approach to teaching using creative, physical and independent methods. Active English brings excitement to the most challenging of texts for your students, seamlessly scaffolding towards insightful written analysis.
Active English can provide practical and proven activities to engage even the most challenging students from all abilities and backgrounds.
Whether your department desire an active approach to KS3, KS4 or KS5 English, or you seek an objective and supportive review of your English provision, Active English can help you achieve your goals. Together, we can revitalise your teaching and improve engagement and results for your students.
What can Active English offer your school?
Active English Approaches
Using active learning approaches, I can deliver a two/ three hour or full day workshop to provide English departments with additional tools to reinvigorate their teaching styles in response to the new GCSE. I support teachers to work imaginatively with Shakespeare, texts from the literary canon, poetry and non-fiction texts and relates these activities to the new grading system.
These techniques have successfully supported extended writing and exam techniques allowing teachers to find the fun in the new curriculum.
Teachers can expect to learn: how to create a whoosh; how to explore punctuation in poetry through physical work; using Shakespeare to support preparation for creative writing, and more. Through fun, confidence and ownership, I seek to give teachers the tools to create memorable lessons for every ability of student.
Dynamic English Provision
Through close collaboration with the Head of Department, observation of the team, evaluations of schemes of learning and analysis of results, I can help your school identify areas to improve either through active approaches or employing alternative strategies. Using data, developing ways of tackling behaviour, reducing marking load; I have a wealth of experience to enable your team to excel and your students to thrive.
This service can include: meetings with the HOD and /or team; observation and feedback of teaching; data meeting; student interviews; questionnaire with analysis; feedback and recommendation report; practical approaches and resources; follow up evaluation meeting.
What has Active English achieved?
I was hoping to find ideas for delivering material to mid ability boys. I achieved my goal. The workshop had good delivery and methods. Really lovely activities applicable to all texts.
Tim Buebird, Head of English, UTC Swindon
Victoria Remmington
I have been a successful Head of Department, an Assistant Head and the Lead Teacher in Bucks for the RSC but at heart, I am an English teacher dedicated to delivering challenging, exciting and accessible lessons to students and teachers, transforming English into an active experience.
In collaboration with Royal Shakespeare Company as the Learning and Performance Network coordinator for Bucks for over 5 years, I produced festivals and workshops, and have since trained primary and secondary school staff.
Through years of experience and successful results, I can help your department unite the expectations of a core subject with the passion for delivering dynamic English to engaged students.
NPQSL, PGCert in Teaching Shakespeare, currently Assistant Head with responsibility for Teaching and Learning, former Assistant Head in charge of Sixth Form, former Head of English Department.
2009-2014: Lead teacher in Buckinghamshire for RSC Learning and Performance Network
