Why Frankenstein?

Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself. If you have been following me for a while, you'll be aware of my new Classics in...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Aug 4, 2025

Excelling at English: Just Write More!

I quite often encounter students who are achieving low or simply average grades and have no idea how they should change their writing to...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Sep 25, 2024

Excelling in English: Read the Book!

I have a lot of English Literature A Level students this year which is always an absolute joy. It is an excuse to return to old...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Sep 13, 2024

Summer: Blink and You'll Miss It

I have just picked up my son from his last day as a Year Seven student and, as ever at this time of year, I am hit by a mix of emotions:...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Jul 19, 2024

How to Have a Conversation

Why are we so keen to debate all the time? It’s an aggressive term really isn’t it? An act of drawing your line in the sand and...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Feb 26, 2024

Cultural Capital and Critical Thinking

There is a story doing the rounds at the moment about a young woman who is studying for 24 A Levels. There's lots of discussion around...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Feb 14, 2024

The Freeze... And how to move past it

As exams get closer, I'm spending less time talking about subject content and more time talking about exam technique. For GCSE students...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Mar 9, 2023

Stating the Bleeding Obvious

This post is probably the most ironic I have ever written. I haven't written a post for some months, partly because time has run away...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Feb 24, 2023

Poetic Form and How to Identify It

If you are studying poetry you will have come across discussion of rhyme and metre: perhaps you have carefully noted down a rhyme scheme...

Nicola Burkinshaw

Sep 1, 2022

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