31 August 2026 | BlogLatest NewsTeaching
So it’s “new school year” eve and I can’t flipping sleep … this is now my … ummm … oh I don’t know … genuinely I can’t recall how many of these I’ve done but it doesn’t get any easier for me. Every year is the same so you would have thought that I’d know ... Read more
18 August 2026 | BlogResources
This is a “sticky” post (so will always appear at the top of the blog) and is intended to be used for us to signpost people to a “sort of” set of instructions on how to access and generate the R.A.G. paper functionality that we’ve developed – an overview is also available on the R.A.G. ... Read more
16 September 2025 | Blog
This is the post I wanted to write yesterday. When the GCSE was reformed back in 2017 me and Seager spent hours, weeks, even months thinking about what teaching “our kind” of students aiming to get them that magic grade 4 would look like. You may be new here and not be aware that we ... Read more
14 September 2025 | Uncategorized
We’ve done our first full week with year 11 and I’m buzzing! They have (in the main) been amazing. As I always say context is really important so I’d probably better give some background to my specific groups. We have 300+ kids in our current year 11, split into two bands which we set by ... Read more
20 August 2025 | Uncategorized
The summer is nearly over and I’ve been thinking through my plan about what I want to do with this blog this year and have come up with an idea … … I’m going to document “a year with year 11” and what I do with “those” groups .. So, I teach the crossover groups ... Read more
28 May 2025 | PersonalPGCEUncategorized
Hey you, It’s been a while … how’re you doing? Me? … THE SHORT ANSWER Yeah … I’m good. Me? … THE LONG ANSWER: Yeah … I’m good now. Life is hectic as always … it’s been pretty up and down over the last couple of years, what with changing school, moving house etc etc … maybe ... Read more
4 September 2024 | Bread & ButterEdexcelUncategorized
This is “take 2” in writing this post so lets crack on (part 1 can be found here!) … In the below I’ll show you what I usually do every year but it doesnt cover ALL the functionality thats available. Maybe I’ll come back as and when I use the other stuff but for now ... Read more
4 September 2024 | BlogEdexcelFrom the Coal FaceUncategorized
I’ve had to add this paragraph after writing the below post. I came on here to write about using Pearsons “resultsplus” data/webapge and how we’ve used it over the last few days … I’ve got screenshots and EVERYTHING (including some excel workbooks to share with you!!) to do an instructional blog … I then started ... Read more
20 November 2023 | Blog
So I’ve fallen out of the habit of posting my random thoughts on here … life is busier than it’s ever been but I’m feeling like I’m slowly getting into a routine with all the stuff that’s going on and it feels like as good a time as any to get back into this on ... Read more
20 July 2023 | Uncategorized
I tweeted the above yesterday having just walked out of school on my last day … and now, having reflected on it, I think it needs to be edited … the emotions involved in changing schools is very much never talked about. I remember my first move and the whole thing knocked me for six. ... Read more
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