Mel Muldowney Gobsmacked. That is the only word I can use to describe the announcement today that Justine Greening made via a letter to the Education Select Committee. (BTW If any of the committee are reading this I suggest you clear the diary in Autumn because I suspect you will be opening an enquiry into this Summers GCSE … Read more
Ramblings of a mad woman probably but I’m trying to get my head around ways to work with our current and future cohorts to overcome issues whereby some students do this: Read the question Decide they aren’t going to be able to FINISH the question Don’t even start having a go … arggggghhhhhhh!!! I’m going to … Read more
COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED … THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT ENTERED I’ve only gone and convinced Mel it’s about time to dig out her hat again and offer some free tickets to the JustMaths Conference in June. Back in the Summer term when we were about to launch the ‘Super 60’ we wanted to celebrate the … Read more
So it’s late … I know! VERY late but I can’t sleep. This is nothing new to me so don’t be thinking I’m losing it … but it does seem worse at the minute. Too many unknowns and we are marking mocks at the minute so maybe that has something to do with it … who knows? My two most … Read more
The file for the March maths calendar and also solutions for the February one can be found below. I’m not really here … don’t be silly … its flipping half term for some of us so I’m hopefully half way up a mountain! March 2017 -> Monthly Maths – March 2017 Solutions for February -> Monthly Maths … Read more
Just a quickie to let you know about the forthcoming dates for the collaborative network meetings that Pearson Edexcel run. If you haven’t been to one you need to get yourself involved – the emphasis in these meetings is meant to be on teaching and learning, rather than exam focus but inevitably given that this … Read more
I’ve written before about the pressure of making the right/wrong tiering decision -> here but an email I received this week (more about that below) coincided with something I found in the board meeting papers from Ofqual last week that made me go … hmmmmmmmmmmmm then grrrrrrrrrr. The specific piece is shown below and is … Read more
Short and sweet … Calender for Feb can be found here -> Monthly Maths – February 2017 NOTE: I’ll update this post with the solutions for January up tomorrow as I’m a world away from home at the minute – somewhere up north!! Update: Jan Solutions can be found here -> Monthly Maths – January … Read more
If you don’t know what I mean by “three rings” then you are waaaaaaayyyyy too young! Do I have to explain this? In the “olden” days we used to use an old-fashioned phone (I know!) to ring our mates/mum and let it ring just 3 times to let them know that we were home and … Read more
I’m just gonna say it … I think I need to get a life! I’ve been doing some work following the letter I’ve had from Ofqual in response to my own letter to them where I raised the matter of how comparability across tiers was being ensured. You can see from the below extract Ofqual … Read more
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