Dear Colleagues
As this is the last update before the start of the June 2025 exams, I would like to wish you, your students and their families the very best for the exam period. I hope your communal hard work pays off with a great exam experience for everyone.
As always, do get in touch if you need support on delivering our English qualifications.
Best wishes
Clare Haviland
Key dates and reminders
15 May 2025: by this date all NEA marks, grades and samples must be submitted for the June 2025 exam series.
One-stop shop for all exam period reminders for our English qualifications
-How to make submissions.
-Authentication sheets with AI and what to do if you have used an outdated one.
-Word counts and what to do with work that is over or under length.
-SLE recordings: over or under length.
-SLE recordings: missing video recordings (to make up the sample of 10 pass, 10 merit and 10 distinctions).
-Prescribed editions of set texts
Final exam timetables for June 2026
The provisional exam timetables for June 2026 have now been finalised.
Access the timetables.
Our Let's Talk English campaign has started with some really interesting conversations centred around the questions: 'What is English? What is it for?'
We’re capturing the outcomes of our conversations in a series of short videos:
-Preparing students for the future with real world tasks and activities
-Incorporating old and new texts in the classroom
-Making reading more enjoyable
-Making English real and relatable
-Ensuring diversity is not a buzz word
Get details of some great new courses and networks on offer this term.
New high-level exemplars for GCSE English Language 2.0
Language component 3 guide
Take a look at our new guide to help you deliver 9EN0 03 along
with some useful tips on how to approach revision.
Don’t miss out on a great free event for KS4 English teachers from the British Library.
25 June, 16.00 – 17.15 BST
Join Professor Emma Smith, and teacher and author Michael Donkor for fresh perspectives, tips and resources. We’ll explore ideas of agency and blame, looking at Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the supernatural.
Find out more and book.
Join an amazing panel of speakers at the British Library for UCL’s annual delve into English grammar. With the current focus on what GCSEs in English should be about, this is a highly relevant moment to look at the role of English grammar teaching in schools today.
Find out more and book.
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