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ADOLESCENCE (2025, 15, 4 EPISODES, 228 MINS TOTAL) CURRICULUM LINKS: PSHE Into Filmhas partneredwith Netflix to make viewings of the acclaimed drama mini-series Adolescence free to all schools via the Into Film+ streaming service. Co-written byJackThorne and Stephen Graham, the story centres on the arrest of a 13-year-old boy (played byOwen Cooper, in his TV acting debut) for themurder of a female student attending the same school. All four episodes are available to view in their entirety,with the option for teachers to save and view specific scenes when discussing key topics and themes in class. Schools can also download a guide for teachers containing advice on how to present the drama in age-appropriate way to their students. According to Into FilmCEO, Fiona Evans, “ We are sure that schools will choose to use this incredible drama in a variety ofways that will encourage teachers, students and parents to continue the important conversations that the drama has already prompted in homes across the UK. ” For furtherdetails on howto access the Into Film+ service, and to download the accompanying guide for teachers,visit intofilm.org/adolescence Creative exercises to get students generating new ideas A F E W M I N U T E S O F D E S I G N #36 EXTENDED FAMI LY Look at this family of symbols. How have pictures been simplified to make symbols? Are they made of solid shapes or lines?What visual features does each one use?What makes them a family? Draw your own symbols to continue the series, keeping the same visual ‘language’ of simplification, line, shape and style as the original members. Now draw a symbol that doesn’t belong to the family. Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social A 15-year-old once suggested tome you should do exams twice - once in an exam hall, and then get an additional paper to do however you wish,which would show their skills in the real world (including ability to seek help fromothers).There’s obvious issues, but there’s something compelling in it. mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social I can totally see a worldwhere teachers use AI to create assignments, students useAI to complete assignments, teachers useAI to grade assignments, and no one learned a damned thing. Follow us via @teachsecondary (X) and @teachsecondary.bsky.social Get Into Film TEACHER TAL ES True stories fromthe education chalkface In the dark After a refit, the light switches for our new sports hall were relocated to the corridor outside.One day, a teacher wanting to use the hall came to the PE office, asking how to turn the lights on.Always ‘game for a laugh’, I told himthe lights were nowvoice-activated, and offered to give him a demonstration.A fellowPE colleague in the office realisedwhat I was up to, and followed us to the darkened sports hall. I enteredwith the teacher, and shouted towards the top left corner,“ Lights on! ”.As I did so,my colleague in the corridor duly threw the light switch, and the teacher was amazed. I told himhe’d better see if it recognised his voice too, so he attempted a series of ‘successful’verbal on and offs andwas very impressed by the ‘technology’.We then left himto it. Some days later, the PE office voicemail captured an irate, expletive-laced voice message fromthe teacher, informing us that he’d spent fiveminutes in a gloomy sports hall unsuccessfully shouting for the lights to come on, before eventually being shown where the physical switches were by the school caretaker… Good proofredding Froma teacher’s subject report : “[the student] ismaking very god progress in Religious Studies” Have amemorable true school tale or anecdote ofyour own? Share the details, andfindmore amusing stories, at schoolhumour.co.uk Like and subscribe Who’s been saying what on the socials of late? Image courtesy of Netflix 09 teachwire.net/secondary N E WS | M AY/ J U N