Mel Muldowney I’ve been meaning to post this since before Christmas as I know lots of you will be searching for help (as I was) in order to put something together for SMSC for your maths department. We’ve done a whole school audit and we went a stage further and put together our departmental statement/policy … call … Read more
So thoughts are turning to the new term and I am genuinely excited. Tomorrow evening I may feel differently!?!? We have a new member of staff joining the department who will be responsible for numeracy, which means together with myself, Seager, Will (who is also teaching his Science specialism) and two Assistant Heads we are … Read more
Here we go again … This type of headline scares me … you can’t see the entire article but you’ll get the gist. There is no denying … actually I’m going to edit myself … there is no denying that some reports would present findings that culminate (either matter of factly or go “around the houses”) … Read more
This will be the last post of 2014 and oh boy what a year is has been! I’ve done the #nurture thing for the last two years and reading back on the previous efforts makes me cringe. I can’t believe how much has changed but also how much of me “as a teacher” … warts … Read more
Every time I eat cheese and onion crisps (usually because they’re all that’s left!) I think “these really are nice and I quite like them”. I do the same with lots of things: going to my mother-in-laws, making bread, digging at my allotment, swimming etc etc. I bet you’re wondering if I’ve gone slightly mad or … Read more
The festivities are over, the turkey is (nearly!) gone and a massive dent has been made to the buckets of alcohol that were purchased. So it is, that thoughts turn to the return to work for a couple of days before I build up the energy for the “big night” out .. I do love … Read more
In the Times today were a couple of articles about the new Maths GCSE, both of which add more wariness (is that a word?) about the changes that we are facing as maths teachers. The first had the headline “Rival’s GCSE practice papers too easy, claim exam boards” and I’ll leave it to your imagination … Read more
Last week I wrote a post (-> Here) about the looming election which was borne out my frustration that if you read most of the edu-articles in the media that teachers are rubbish, schools are rubbish and we are all a bunch of negferrets who want to accept the status quo. Well it caused quite a curfuffle … Read more
On the first day of Christmas my teaching job gave to me: A stinking bout of man flu! On the second day of Christmas my teaching job gave to me: Two snotty nostrils and A stinking bout of man flu! On the third day of Christmas my teaching job gave to me: Three … Read more
Anyone would have thought that there was an election soon. Oh there is! Silly me! Driving into work this morning, having watched yet another bit of “teacher bashing” on breakfast news it occurred to me that I couldn’t imagine anyone doing a similar drive to their own workplace thinking “I know what I need to … Read more
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