The below is the maths calendar for June 2016 – I’ll be sending out to all parents of years 10 and possibly year 9 next week when we’re back – along with the solutions for May 2016 Monthly Maths – June Previous months can be found on the links below: May 2016 and the solutions … Read more
Below you will find out “Best guess” papers for the higher and foundation tiers for the LINEAR Edexcel Mathematics GCSE paper 2 after half term. Just to reiterate what I’ve put on the front page of the paper, specifically the Higher tier – the paper is made up of topics that we believe are … Read more
To be honest I think last night/this morning was the MOST NERVOUS I have EVER been before an exam – for reasons unknown to me!. Overall I felt that paper 1 was fair – our “super group” in the main felt that they we well prepared and it gave them a great deal of confidence … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to manage student talking when they are working – I suppose it’s a result of my quite laid back attitude that I have to work hard at bringing students back on task with a certain group. Most of the time this group are talking about the work … Read more
.. the disappearing entry on the DFE timelines. This evening I got a tweet from Miss Mews (@MissMews1) asking what was happening with the year 7 resits as they had disappeared from the DFE website … so off I went … oh hang on … lets take a step back for some of you. Nicky … Read more
Just a quickie that I thought I would share. I’ve been thinking about ways to motivate my “boy-heavy” year 10 group and for them to see the point of homework. I have an issue, in that I haven’t yet found something that engages them enough to “want” to do the work involved. I don’t want … Read more
Occasionally I let Seager write a blog post … ok I’ll be honest I think I’ve let him write one post in the last 4 years and this is why I’m happy to let him double his blog post count this evening with the below contribution. I don’t want to steal his thunder so I’ll … Read more
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