.. how we’ve used early entry, Mr Gove. You would know that we haven’t used it to cheat your league tables (which, just-so-you-know show the school at which we work to be “most improved school in the country” in Jan 2013) … we’ve used it to give our students a better chance in the life they have … Read more
Been meaning to post about this since I did the exam marking in the summer, but have been seriously busy (haven’t we all?) and just as I’m about to revise T&I with some of my one to one students its prompted me to finish the post that was started so long ago. To some of … Read more
Been planning lessons this weekend and have put the attached together (and solution) which I am going to use with all my year groups over the next few weeks – either as a starter or the main activity – depending on the group. So my lower years/abilities will get it as the main course and my higher years/abilities … Read more
Its Friday night and most of you don’t want to even think about work … but I want to pick some brains about how other schools deal with the teaching at KS5. I have tried to explain what we do, twice now and even got myself confused so am going to refer to the four teachers as … Read more
Wow! Fize has been busy … apparently he’s had to do some “coding” to get the teachers resources folders looking the way I wanted them … and yes I am THAT particular… So … there are two levels of login: 1) for students. This gives them access to worksheets, worked solutions and Seagers’ tutorials. I’m saying it … Read more
I received an email today from Suzann Wells (from Samuel Whitbread Academy) about one of the June 2013 worksheets – the Box Plots one to be specific. Following this I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get my head around what defines context in terms of an exam answer, and how it is sometimes open … Read more
I‘m not even sure that “monkeying” is a real word, but Seager calls me the department’s “data monkey” and I am sure most departments will have one … if you haven’t got one … you need too. In some schools the person that handles the data will be the Head of Department, but in ours … Read more
I posted a blog a few weeks ago in which I collated a load of homework ideas from Twitterworld – here’s the post – (thank you to all the amazing tweeters, who made suggestions) one of the ideas from @sarahestocker, that I said I was going to try was getting students to design worksheets for other students … Read more
I called into Seager’s classroom today when he was doing a one -to-one session with some students today (I know I said one-to-one and “students” is plural – we do mainly small groups but its still called 1:1 .. don’t ask!) and I saw the way he uses the ResultsPlus template. Each student had their … Read more
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