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Donal Hale
@HaleDonal
Director of Literacy and Learning @TrinityAcademyL 💜🌟 | Speaker | Author: Leading Secondary English | Literacy Specialist with DfE-funded @JCEnglishHub
York, England
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    Donal Hale
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    Jun 14, 2025
    🧵 This is a bit of a "pinch me" moment. Seeing your name, your book on Waterstones, Foyles, Amazon... If you pre-order Leading Secondary English from the @BloomsburyEd now, you benefit from their 30% off sale! @Team_English1, @LitdriveUK. Link in thread below. 👇👇👇
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    Donal Hale
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    May 12, 2022
    🧵*TOP TIP* English Language Paper 1 This has been revelatory for my students! Help 'prime' students for reading the extract, ask them to READ Q4 FIRST, VERY CAREFULLY, as it allow them to understand the heart of the text. /1
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    Donal Hale
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    Aug 17, 2024
    At @TrinityAcademyL, we have developed four toolkits to support teachers in their pedagogy. High-quality CPD is delivered to all staff in these areas, and Curriculum Leaders work with their teams to ensure these strategies are best utilised within their subject area. #CPD
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    Donal Hale
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    Feb 2, 2024
    I'm delighted to share some news: I have accepted a senior leadership position @TrinityAcademyL. I am soon to become Associate Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning: Literacy and SEND). 💜⭐️ It's a very exciting time for us, and I can't wait to start this new journey!
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    Donal Hale
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    May 26, 2022
    My Year 13s @HuntingtonYork just bought me such a clever, nerdy, literary leaving gift! 🥰 @Team_English1 - can you name the text they are alluding to?
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    Donal Hale
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    Mar 11, 2022
    I'm going to end the week by sharing some exciting news... 🥳🥳🥳 from September, I am going to be Curriculum Leader for English @TrinityAcademyL 💜🌟 It is a truly special school and so grateful to be there at the beginning (almost!) of its incredible journey! 🤩
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    Donal Hale
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    Mar 29, 2024
    📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Earlier this week, I officially signed a contract with @BloomsburyEd to publish my first BOOK! 📖📒📚 Leading Secondary English: The Habits and Culture of an Expert English Department Early days, but I'm very excited to have been asked to do it! 😊
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    Donal Hale
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    Feb 26, 2021
    So, after all the love yesterday for @KateJones_teach's Retrieval Practice pyramid's, and to add to @Mathew_Lynch44's work, here are three more, covering the rest of the Birling family! All will be uploaded to be downloaded for free on @LitdriveUK as well @Team_English1 folks.
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    Donal Hale
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    Mar 10, 2024
    🧵 Supporting struggling readers in secondary school 🧵 At @TrinityAcademyL c.42% of our students arrive with a reading age well below chronological age. So, how do we ensure they are able to access a word rich bookletised curriculum? Our interventions focus on 2 areas: ⬇️
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    Donal Hale
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    Oct 17, 2024
    🧵 Writing Stamina 🧵 Our KS3 curriculum spiral curriculum model means we have taught writing structures from word --> sentence --> paragraph level. We focused on mastery, rather than throwing students into extended essay writing too soon. Some of the concerns others had was /1
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    Donal Hale
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    May 14, 2023
    I don't have KS5 this year, but I know many will be thinking of the imminent A Level Literature exams, so I'm sharing this again. I genuinely believe this revolutionised our last set of A Level Exam results: ALPS 1.12 (2) @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK
    HINGE WORDS: An approach to ‘to what extent do you agree?’ questions in A Level English Literature
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    Donal Hale
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    Jun 24, 2022
    Possibly THE nicest email I have ever received from a parent @HuntingtonYork. I cried. A LOT. 'You will be a teacher he mentions to his children as someone he looked up to'. 'Thank you for following your true vocation'. 😭😭😭 #bestjobintheworld
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    Donal Hale
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    Jul 15, 2024
    I've had a lot of visitors - and many reach out online - asking what our department do for our weekly Reading Lesson in English @TrinityAcademyL. We have a co-curricular reading programme, with a booklet each term that complements the concepts we teach in our main units. /1
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    Donal Hale
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    Jun 27, 2023
    LOVE the feeling of a completed booklet! 🤩 Ready to go for September 2023. Year 7: The Gothic Year 8: The Spoken Word I cannot wait to use these with our 💜🌟s @TrinityAcademyL next academic year. Intrigued? Find out more on 8th July, @LitdriveUK conference. #LitdriveCPD23
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