3 July 2017 | DFENEW GCSE 9-1OCROfqual
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
1 July 2017 | From the Coal Face
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
1 July 2017 | BlogFrom the Coal FaceInterventionNEW GCSE 9-1Resources
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
28 June 2017 | DFEOfqual
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
28 June 2017 | BlogPersonal
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
26 June 2017 | BlogEdexcelNEW GCSE 9-1Ofqual
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
22 June 2017 | BlogPersonal
At about 8:30 this evening my conversation on the phone with my hubbie went a little like this: Me: Hiya. I’m on the last leg of my train journey – should get in to Brum just after 9. Good day? Him: Yep. You? (he’s not a phone person!) Me: Yeah. Good. Not sure about this ... Read more
14 June 2017 | AQADFEOCROfqualWJEC
So paper 3 is done and dusted. ‘Tis done. ‘Tis finished. At just after 10:30 am this morning I could almost feel maths teachers everywhere breathing a massive sigh of relief. (I promise I will write up my experience of sitting the exam as an external candidate but time … you know! .. time … ... Read more
10 June 2017 | 3 - ShapeResourcesTeaching
Looking for something for that last minute revision lesson? Yeah .. me too! Having emailed out the bumper papers to parents, I put the mark-schemes on our VLE and then as a catch-all for the students that me and Seager teach, I ran around like a mad-woman during period 5 giving them printed copies too! And today ... Read more
8 June 2017 | Resources
PLEASE NOTE THESE WERE FOR SUMMER 2017 … I WILL POST THE “BETWEEN PAPERS” PRACTICE PAPERS FOR 2018 AFTER PAPER 1 AND ALSO AFTER PAPER 2. Now that paper 2 has been and gone, we’ve already moved onto thinking about paper 3 and like the previous practice papers we produced .. these are not “best ... Read more
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