Teach Secondary -Issue 15.1

Threenewadditions to the Into Film+ that schools canviewthroughoutJanuary LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (2016, PG, 93 MINUTES) Sharp, comedic adaptation of the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan , in which the scheming, selfish and recentlywidowed Lady Susan finds herself in need of a new husband... Curriculumlinks: English literature, PSHE, history TISH (2023, 15, 90MINUTES) Documentary profiling the career of photographer Tish Murtha,who captured the lives of working-class communities in the North East of England during the 1980s. Curriculumlinks: Art and design, history OKJA (2017, 15, 121 MINUTES) Eco-thriller fromSouth Korean director Bong Joon-Ho, about a super pig bred over a decade as part of a corporate experiment, its teenage girl owner and the activists out to rescue it. Curriculumlinks: Filmstudies, science Head online to intofilm.org to streamthese films for free anddownload theirfilm guides,which includeTeacher’sNotes to facilitate classroomdiscussion and suggested excerpts for closer examination 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 #38 YOUR TYPE Look carefully at this word. Try to write your name in the same typeface. Are there clues to any letters that are in your name but not in the sample? Practice drawing the common elements of the letters. What do the curves look like? The line thicknesses?What gives the letters their unique character? Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social Integrating genAI into educationwill result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering & cultivating the coming generation – and this responsibilitycan’t be left to an industrythat has alignedwith authoritarian regimes,prioritises profit at anycost, and is powering fascism David Didau @DavidDidau Belonging isOfsted’s latest buzzword,but most of the noisemisses the point.Children do not experience school throughvibes or pastoral weather systems.Theyexperience it through language, themediumthat shapes every rule they interpret and every social cue theydecode. Ifwe treat belonging as emotional rather than aboutmeaning,wewill keep trying to solve thewrong problem. Follow us via @teachsecondary and @teachsecondary.bsky.social Get Into Film TEACHER TAL ES True stories fromthe education chalkface Up for interpretation Whilst supervising a group of around 40 students about to take an exam–many of whomwere fromoverseas – I spotted one student looking agitated. I approached and quietly asked if he understoodwhat was required of him. In a hushed tone, he replied“ I chockedmy pants. ”We both stared at each other for amoment.With heart inmouth, I asked himto repeat what he’d said. He did so, more urgently this time.Trying to discreetly sniff as I bent towards him, I mentally calculated howwe could leave the roomwith some dignity and get the poor lad some help. Whereupon he turned to the desk behind, picked up some writing implements andmade a show of dropping them.Then the penny dropped forme.“ Oh, you dropped your pens , ” I saidwith relief. I practically sprinted to the front of the roomto source some replacements for him, andwas rewardedwith a huge smile... Like and subscribe Who’s been saying what on the socials thismonth? If the shoe doesn’t fit... I once stopped a Y7 boywearing trainers at breaktime and asked himwhere his shoes were. He toldme that he’d had PE the previous day, last period, andwhen he got home, discovered that he was wearing two left shoes. He’d brought both shoes in, andwas now heading to the PE department to sort the issue out. Moments later, I stopped another boy, similarlywearing trainers, and also hobbling. When I enquiredwhat the problemwas, he described having had a PE lesson the previous day, and finding it unusually painful to walk that morning, only to find he was wearing two right shoes. I gently led himto the other boy I’d just seen, and left themwith the words, “You two need to talk...” Have amemorable true school tale or anecdote ofyour own? Share the details, andfindmore amusing stories, at schoolhumour.co.uk 09 teachwire.net/secondary N E WS | J A N / F E B