Miss Estruch Teach & Tell

What if you could make a self-marking quiz in about 10 minutes, without writing any code? Watch the walkthrough version on YouTube here https://youtu.be/DMJWoS7pElM In this follow-along episode of Miss Estruch Teach & Tell, I share my screen and build an interactive A-Level Biology revision quiz website with Claude, from the first prompt to a finished quiz students can use tomorrow. It has multiple choice and true/false questions that mark themselves, a countdown timer, an on-screen calculator, instant feedback with an explanation for every answer, and a final score screen with a retry button. It took about three minutes to build. Then I show you how to test it like a student, how to tweak it in plain English, how to reuse it for every topic, and how to get it to your students as a single HTML file. 📋 The exact prompt I used is in the show notes below. Copy it and swap in your own subject and topic. **The prompt** > Using the AQA biological molecules topic 1 specification and example questions online, build a single, self-contained HTML file for an interactive A-Level Biology quiz with 15 questions: 10 multiple choice and 5 true or false. Include a countdown timer that I can set at the top, an on-screen calculator that students can open and close, instant marking when each question is answered, a short explanation after each answer showing why it's right or wrong, and a final score screen with a percentage and a button to retry. Make it clean, readable and mobile-friendly, and provide the HTML to me to send to my students.

Stop spending hours fiddling with fonts, aligning text boxes, and redesigning the same materials from scratch.

In this tutorial, we cover the teacher's guide to Canva: how to build engaging, professional GCSE and A-Level worksheets and revision resources from start to finish.

Set up your reusable templates once and reclaim your planning time!  

In this video, you'll learn:  

Looking back on the last academic year, there were several habits, planning routines, and classroom systems that drained my energy without actually benefiting my students.  And now having seen the 2026 papers and the examiner reports, there are three big changes I am going to make this year!

In this episode, I'm sharing the teaching mistakes I made and the exact systems I'm using to fix them this school year.

Whether you're a new teacher navigating workload or an experienced educator looking to streamline your classroom management and planning, these practical changes will help you protect your time and teach more effectively.

What if the thing eating into your evenings isn't the marking itself, but the typing?

In this episode of Miss Estruch Teach & Tell, former Head of Biology Katie Estruch explores Wispr Flow, a game-changer in edtech that is helping teachers reclaim their personal time.

Wispr Flow isn't about generating artificial lesson plans or replacing teacher expertise.

Instead, it tackles the two most time-consuming admin bottlenecks in any educator's week: emails and written student feedback.

By capturing natural speech and automatically formatting it into polished, structured prose, it cuts drafting time in half without sounding robotic.

What does the 2026 Schools White Paper actually mean if you teach pupils with ADHD?

In this episode of Miss Estruch Teach & Tell, former Head of Biology Katie Estruch breaks down the House of Commons Library briefing on the government's SEND reforms ("Every Child Achieving and Thriving").

While the white paper doesn't explicitly mention ADHD, major structural changes are coming to how neurodivergent support is categorised, tiered, and documented in UK schools.

Here is everything classroom teachers, SENCOs, and school leaders need to know now, before proposals become policy.

🔗 Mentioned Resources & References House of Commons Library Research Briefing (CBP-10550): https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-10550/CBP-10550.pdf UK Government Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving

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Two students can have the same ADHD diagnosis and end up with very different levels of legal protection. Many teachers sit through 504 and IEP meetings without anyone explaining which plan is which, or why that matters in the classroom.

In this episode, former Head of Biology Katie Estruch explains how the two US frameworks work for teachers, and how it differs to the provisions in the UK:

Whether you teach in the US or the UK, you'll come away with a clearer picture of the systems and practical strategies that work with or without the paperwork.

If this was useful, share it with a colleague who's about to sit in their first 504 or IEP meeting.

What if a student got an exam question wrong not because they didn't know the content, but because of an ambiguous word buried in the sentence?

In this episode of Miss Estruch Teach & Tell, former Head of Biology Katie Estruch breaks down insights straight from the AQA Summer Conference 2026 keynote by Tor Thompson (AQA Assessment Design Manager). Discover how exam boards screen for "Construct Irrelevant Variance" (CIV) to ensure assessments measure true subject knowledge rather than reading stamina or decoding speed.

📌 What We Cover: 

• What is Construct Irrelevant Variance (CIV)?

• Language screening: Eliminating ambiguous phrasing, dense clauses, and rare vocabulary

• Formatting & Layout: Reducing cognitive load and designing for dyslexia

• Visuals: Clean diagrams and designing for colour vision deficiency

• Context: Streamlining wordy scenarios into clear numbered steps

• The Classroom Checklist: 5 quick wins for writing your own worksheets and assessments

What if you could personalise thirty certificates, revision posters, or exam countdown cards, each with a different student's name, target grade, or exam date, without spending ages manually copy and pasting and editing names?  

In this episode, I walks you through Canva's Bulk Create feature step by step, showing you how to turn one design into a whole class set in minutes.

This episode is one you would really benefit from watching, to see the screen recording of each step.  Here is the YouTube video version https://youtu.be/943c5h5OSPc

In this episode:

Key takeaway: The time cost is building the template once and tidying the spreadsheet. After that, personalising thirty documents takes minutes, not an evening.

GCSE and A-level reform properly started moving this summer.

In this episode, I'm giving you the download from the AQA Science Conference 2026.

What's confirmed, what's still proposed, and what actually lands in your classroom- and when.

Consider this Part 1: there's more to come as the details firm up.

You'll learn:

Nobody warns you how much your first year of teaching is going to ask of you.

In this episode, I'm talking about surviving year one as an ECT.  The challenges nobody prepares you for, exactly who you should be turning to when things get hard, and the practical habits that will save you hours every single week.

I still remember my own NQT year like it was yesterday.  The exhaustion, the imposter syndrome, the feeling that everyone else had somehow been given a manual I'd never seen. If you're starting your ECT year, or you're already in it wondering why nobody warned you it would feel like this, this one's for you.

I talk about the things the training year doesn't prepare you for, why the challenges you're hitting are completely normal, and who to actually go to for each type of problem, because year one goes far more smoothly once you know that, rather than trying to solve everything yourself.

I also share the habits that genuinely protect your time: batching admin, guarding your non-contact time, setting a boundary and holding it, and swapping detailed individual marking for whole-class feedback.

Speaking of which, one of the biggest time-savers I mention in this episode is ditching individual comment marking for whole-class feedback sheets. I've put together a free whole-class feedback document to help you start saving hours from this week. Grab it here: https://www.missestruch.co.uk/offers/fNUar5qP/checkout

You don't have to do year one perfectly. I certainly didn't. You just have to keep asking for help, learn from your mistakes, and protect your time where you can.