Mel Muldowney Tonight, I’m going to treat you (Well I say “treat” but I’ll let you judge for yourselves!) to two posts. The first is by way of an update and the second post is to pay tribute to some very special students. This is the first of those two posts … brace yourself … this is tough … Read more
I’ve updated my usual end of year “pub quiz” that I will be doing with my very last lesson with my groups. I’m a real grouch and generally try to keep them going as long as I can until I relent and do something “fun” … Anyway, i thought I’d share … there are 5 rounds … Read more
It’s Wednesday!! So …. today saw me heading up the M6 again to Eden Boys School in Bolton – before I forget … BEST CAKES EVER!!! (Were I to grade my visits to schools based on the cakes this one is 10/10!! … I don’t do that though!! No … seriously I don’t) The trip … Read more
This is gonna be quick … I promise! But thought I’d share … I see part of my job in year 7 is to get students comfortable just playing around with numbers. Yes, I want there to be no fear about making mistakes but I also want students to be numerate and as I say … Read more
This is the second post looking at the percentage of questions that were on both tiers in the first live sitting of the exam – part 1 included the stats from Pearson/Edexcels papers and this one is for OCR. As previously, I should remind you that “at least 20%” on both tiers must be from … Read more
I speak/email/DM and meet lots of teachers … all the time! Many of these teachers are in FE and I have to take my hat off to them as I’m not sure I could work in that sector especially given the policy of enforced resits. It must be draining on all levels to be relentlessly … Read more
Here you go … Monthly Maths – July 2017 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for June 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for June 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – June 2017 – SOLUTIONS
I can’t let this pass without comment … the DFE need to sort this out … it’s a fecking mess !! Let me remind you that in March Justine Greening wrote to the Education Select Committee (letter -> here ) and in this she states “Where employers, FE providers and universities currently accept a grade C we … Read more
This one is better than falling asleep last week on the train because it all happened in public … I swear I am a complete and utter knob at times! This morning I was at one of the Pearson collaborative network meetings and thought: “ooh I like that NAVY LINEN dress” that one of the women … Read more
Back in January I wrote (in this post-> here ) about how comparability across tiers was going to be ensured by the exam boards and Ofqual. I included some analysis about the percentage of marks available on the “crossover” topics for Edexcel, AQA and OCR; I also went off on a tangent about the why … Read more
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