The final countdown .. 2018

In less than a week paper one will be done. I’m going to look into my crystal ball **coming all over “Mystic Meg”** and say there will be a twitter storm about either a certain question or a mistake on the paper or about how they were too hard/too easy and then teachers will start going … Read more

Something to think about – Squares / Cubes

We have learning walks at work where everyone (I think!) is encouraged (it’s probably ”expected” but I haven’t done it!) to pop into other people’s lessons on a regular basis – to be honest it sounds worse than it actually is and ever since my NQT year when I hated people coming in I don’t … Read more

Dividing fractions 1

At BCME over the Easter break, just before the open meeting of the Teaching Committee (TC) of the MA (oh yeah …  exciting/scary news -> as of April I’m now the chair of the TC and am a little scared about following in Rachael Horsmans shadow! She’s done such fab job!!) … anyway, back to … Read more

Dividing fractions 2

Further to my other post about teaching fractions I thought I’d share something that may be of use for revision “fractions” as a complete topic. Whilst writing the previous post I came across something that I used with a previous teaching group (I’ve tidied it up from its previous incarnation when it was just for … Read more

Seagers taking over … shhhh … don’t tell Mel! ENTRY NOW CLOSED

It’s that time again – where I (Seager) takes over Mel’s blog for a limited-edition guest appearance, and guess what … I’ve gone and convinced Mel to dig out her hat yet again! (well … I say convinced … I mean she will have no choice after I press publish!!)  On Monday 25th June, we … Read more

No holibob homework!!

I didn’t get around to sharing the holibob homework this time … busy, busy, busy!!! So to make up for this I’ve changed them into some worksheets that you may find useful for any revision session that you’re doing over the holiday period. I’m not going to get into the rights or wrongs of whether … Read more

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