September 2026 teaching English update

We're inviting English teachers, Heads of Department and school leaders to join our English research community.

By joining, you'll have opportunities to take part in surveys, workshops, discussion panels and research projects exploring the future of the subject, with the flexibility to choose the activities that work for you.

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Updated NEA authentication sheets for all English qualifications & all set events

All awarding organisations have updated the information about the use of AI for non-examination assessment on their authentication sheets to ensure that the rules are clear to both students and teachers.

From 1 September, you must download and use the new authentication sheets for GCSE English Language, ELC, Int GCSE and A level.

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Need to ask a question?

Attend the ‘all set’ events for GCSE, Int GCSE and A level if you want to ask any questions on this change or anything else about delivery in 2026-2027.

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Get support for post-results queries for GCSE, Int GCSE and A level

Deadline for reviews of marking:

GCSE, Int GCSE and A level: 24 September 2026

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Exam insights and other training

Attending exam insights training can help clarify whether you need to make any adjustments to your delivery this academic year.

Exam insights
-Look at candidate performance from the summer 2026 exam series
-Review key observations and trends identified in the examiner reports
-Explore these key observations in more detail using annotated exemplars
-Discover teaching and learning strategies to address challenges identified.

Coursework marking training for each of our English A levels

How to apply the mark scheme training for GCSE.

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Updated question summaries

The question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports from the June 2026 exam series can be accessed on our website with your Edexcel Online login.
After each exam series I update the question summaries for every English qualification (GCSE, Int GCSE and A level). These help you to:

· Check which parts of questions are fixed and which vary across exam series
· Check which texts from our anthologies ‘came up’ in each series
· Check which unseen poems were used
· Check which unseen texts were used
· Check which themes/characters/narrative devices were assessed on set texts
· Pick questions from various past papers to create a new assessment for students for mocks or other internal assessments
· Check how command words are used in questions.

Access question summaries

New training playlist locations on Youtube
Over the summer we have been migrating our Youtube training recordings to new playlists.

Access the new playlists:
GCSE English Language 
GCSE English Language 2.0
GCSE English Literature 
A Level English Literature 
A Level English Language
A Level English Language and Literature 
Int GCSE and IAL

Resit rules for GCSE
Access the guidance.

November 2026 exam series
The next opportunity to sit or resit GCSE English Language 1EN0 and 1EN2 is in November 2026.

Students entering must have been aged 16 on 31 August 2026.

November 2026 exam timetable.

Entry deadline for November 2026: 4 October 2026.
Coursework and SLE submission deadline: 5 November 2026.
Results: 14 January 2027.

Exam dates (based on UK time zones)

1EN0 01 and 1EN2 01: 3.11.26
1EN0 02 and 1EN2 02: 5.11.26

Access full exam timetables for UK and international centres.

Resit rules for Int GCSE
Access the guidance.

November 2026 exam series
The next opportunity to sit or resit Int GCSE English Language or Literature is in
November 2026.

Access the November 2026 exam timetable.

Entry deadline for November 2026: 12 September 2026.
Coursework and SLE submission deadline: 5 November 2026.
Results: 22.1.27

Exam dates (based on UK time zones)

4EA1 01, 4WEA1 01, 4EB1: 3.11.26
4EA1 02, 4WEA1 02: 5.11.26
4ET1 01 and 4WET1 01: 4.11.26
4ET1 02 and 4WET1 02: 16.11.26

Access full exam timetables for UK and international centres.

If you have time and the opportunity, some of the organisations we love working with have great offers for the autumn term:

The English and Media Centre
Great training for A level teaching, universally recognised as being ‘instantly implementable’ and of excellent quality. Don't forget to subscribe to the excellent A level emagazines.

Browse courses and subscirbe to emagazines

The British Library
There are a huge range of free events including CPD for teachers and workshops for students.

-I will be heading to South Asians in Britain on 17 September (see image below).
-Back due to popular demand, the amazing Study Dat: Oscar Wilde, great for students studying Wilde texts on our A level English Literature.

Browse and book all British Library events

Forward Arts Foundation
‘Poems of the Decade’ is one of the most loved texts on our A level literature specification. Keep in touch with the best of contemporary poetry, by attending the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry Ceremony on 24 October at the Southbank Centre or attend virtually.

Book now

Faber and Faber
Look at new editions of some of our GCSE set texts with associated resources which may make them more appealing to some students.

-‘Lord of the Flies’: The Graphic Novel
-Animal Farm: The Illustrated Edition

If you and your students have been infected by the Kazuo Ishiguro bug after studying ‘Klara and the Sun’ or ‘Never Let Me Go’, get ready for the release of Ishiguro’s next novel ‘Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger’.
 

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The Festival of Functionality in September and October gives you access to key training for delivering FS English at all levels as well as how to support post-16 students with additional needs

-Book onto key training from September.
-Sign up for a drop in.

Join the FS teacher Facebook group
Get timely advice to your FS questions and support from Pearson and other experienced practitioners.

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