I know my recent posts have been a bit more “waffly” * is that even a word?* than when I first started this whole blogging palaver … I don’t have a clue how that happened but can assure you (probably!) that normal service will resume when we get back to school next week … my … Read more
This year will be the third year that the school at which we work, will be hosting PGCE students within the maths department. Believe it or not, a few years ago, we had to contact the local university several times in order to be considered … despite the fact that myself and Seager both did … Read more
I know I should let this lie, but I can’t … maybe it’s because I’m tired having been up since 4am having agreed in a moment of insanity, along with loads of other teachers (we’re like that!) to go into school to help prepare for results day as we had ITV Daybreak doing the whole “envelope opening” … Read more
Here it is … if you use Edexcel 1MA0 this will make using the ResultsPlus service so much more user friendly. We will give a copy to every student who sat the exam and it will help them identify areas where they lost those “kick yourself” marks. Its really easy to use a- I’ve put … Read more
It’s that time of year when inevitably, the media is in a feeding frenzy with stories about grade boundaries being inflated or deflated, how education is on the decline, or how education is now so much better depending on which paper you choose to read, but for teachers working at the coal face life goes … Read more
Last year the school introduced a whole-school homework timetable – this meant that as a core subject we have to set homework every week. I’m not saying we didn’t set it regularly as that’s not the case – but I’m not convinced that setting homework for “homework’s sake” is the right way to go about … Read more
I’ve mentioned before here how I used internal analysis from a previous exam paper to get the students to work independently on topics identified for them personally. We will be doing the same for some of our target students who will be retaking their exam in November – this time we will be using our … Read more
Just like every teacher I start each new year with some personal objectives; this year I am determined to be more organised, be more rigid with homework and to make my feedback and marking more effective (still not sure what that actually means though!). How long it lasts is yet to be seen! Some years … Read more
I was reading a post today by the fab Colleen Young about learning names (here) and it got me thinking about the difference in the effort I made in learning students names last year compared to when I first joined the school. In my first year it wasn’t just the names of the new intake that … Read more
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