A little every day – JUNE 2017

4 June 2017 | From the Coal FaceResources

Here you go … Monthly Maths – June 2017 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for May 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for May 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – MAY 2017 – SOLUTIONS

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Edexcel Legacy Practice Questions

26 May 2017 | BlogEdexcel

The marvellous Emma Bell has put together some practice questions for the final Edexcel 1MA0 paper EVER! ** sniffs back a tear** and she has agreed that it was ok to share here for those of you looking for some extra practice questions for students to do over the next 13 days …  HIGHER TIER ... Read more

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Best Guess Papers .. yeah right!

26 May 2017 | Blog

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 PAPERS – CHECK THIS POST -> HERE  EDIT: F YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME PRACTICE PAPERS BETWEN PAPER 2 AND PAPER 3 …YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK OUT THIS POST I bet that blog title got your attention … you may well be disappointed! We aren’t ... Read more

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Just Saying Part 1: 2017

21 May 2017 | BlogUncategorized

Over the last couple of years I’ve written a couple of blog posts that I end up referring people to when faced with queries just to save myself repeating myself and this is one of them .. to be honest this one has been in my draft folder and I’m trying to edit and then publish it after ... Read more

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GCSE 9-1 New content – Venn Diagrams

20 May 2017 | Blog

For those of you that have been around a bit … (I mean teaching for a while and I’m not insinuating anything else 😉 !!) you will have taught these before. They’re a bit of a hokey-cokey topic – one minute they’re in the formal programme of study as dictated by the DFE then they’re out ... Read more

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Recruitment & retention

16 May 2017 | Blog

We don’t have a recruitment problem (ok we may have a recruitment problem!) but I know lots of new teachers who came into the profession having spoken to a teacher who was able to enthuse them enough for them to make the decision and go into teaching! I have spoken to lots of career changers ... Read more

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Mathematical fiddle “things”

13 May 2017 | 3 - ShapeBlogFrom the Coal FaceNEW GCSE 9-1Resources

Ever since I watched the above clip from Vi Hart I’ve been fascinated with flexagons and so one night this week I made my very own trihexaflexagon. It was after I’d marked a test for one of my classes and even though we’ve spent lessons and lessons on circles there were still some students that ... Read more

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GCSE Maths: Preparing for your exam

10 May 2017 | AQABlogEdexcel

For the last couple of years Graham (Cumming .. of course!) has been sending out some additional reminders for both students and teachers a few weeks before the exams. This year has been no different and he has kindly given me permission to share on here too (to which I’ve added a little extra that you ... Read more

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A little every day – MAY 2017

1 May 2017 | BlogResources

Here you go … Monthly Maths – MAY 2017  calendar. The original post containing the sheet for April 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for April 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths – APRIL 2017 – SOLUTIONS

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Countdown “T minus 25”

30 April 2017 | AQAEdexcelFrom the Coal FaceNEW GCSE 9-1OCRPersonal

I’ve joked from the very introduction of the new GCSE that I wanted to sit the exam with the year 11 group that would be sitting it for the very first time … well .. I’ve only gone and flipping entered! The idea is not to prove that I can get a 9 (but shouldn’t ... Read more

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