Amy Bates

Amy has been writing and reviewing content for French, German and Spanish at Save My Exams since 2025. She is a former MFL teacher and leader with over a decade of classroom experience as a teacher, head of department and head of faculty.

She holds a BA in European languages and an MA in translation, and is CELTA-qualified. She is particularly interested in applying evidence-informed research to subject-specific pedagogy and has also held roles as a teacher educator, an ITT tutor, and an assessor for NPQs in leading teaching and leading teacher development.

Published work

Amy has authored a number of teacher guides, textbooks and revision resources for various publishers, including:

• Connecte 1 & 2 KS3 French Teacher Handbook, OUP (2025, 2026)

• Cambridge IGCSE Spanish Student's Book, Collins (2025)

• AQA GCSE Spanish Complete Revision and Practice, Harper Collins (2024)

• AQA GCSE German Teacher Handbook, OUP (2024)

• Vif 1 KS3 French Teacher Handbook, OUP (2023)

• Echt 1 & 2 KS3 German Teacher Handbook, OUP (2020, 2021)

• Cambridge IGCSE German Student Book, Hodder (2019)

• AQA GCSE 9-1 German Complete Revision and Practice, Collins (2018)

Education

• BA (First Class Honours) in European Languages (French, German and Spanish) from the University of Salford

• PGCE in Secondary MFL from the University of Chester

• MA (Merit) in Translation from the University of Bristol

Expertise

As well as writing and editing language resources and online packages, Amy has worked with a number of organisations as an MFL educational consultant and advisor, and with exam boards to develop the new MFL GCSE qualifications. She recently designed the new MFL curriculum for a national ITT provider.

Top revision quote

Little and often is the key to revising a language – the more you revisit something, the easier it will be to remember.