Lesson 01 of 03
Why PEE stops working
The paragraph structure most pupils are taught, and why it caps them at a mid-band answer.
Video 1 — Why PEE stops working
Once you can see what PEE quietly discourages, you can start building something better.
Writing · Medium course · £49 · Coming soon
WritingAnalytical
From PEE to precision.
A course on teaching pupils to write about texts — properly. Beyond PEE, past 'the writer uses X to make the reader feel Y', into the analytical moves that actually earn top-band marks.
6 modules · self-paced
Lesson 02 of 03
The three analytical moves
The three things any top-band paragraph does — regardless of exam board, text or task.
Video 2 — The three analytical moves
This is the toolkit pupils reach for automatically once they've internalised it. Even in unseen questions.
Lesson 03 of 03
Scaffolds you can throw away
How to build analytical scaffolds pupils outgrow — instead of sentence-starters they lean on forever.
Video 3 — Scaffolds you can throw away
Independence is the goal. Scaffolds are how we get there — as long as we take them down.
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