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So … Results Day 2016

JustMathsMel2016-08-25T14:12:42+01:00August 25th, 2016|Blog, From the Coal Face, Teaching|

I started writing this late last night but never posted it so I’ve come back to it this afternoon having been into school and seen the students open their results (and […]

New name for re-marks

JustMathsMel2016-08-24T23:38:52+01:00August 24th, 2016|Blog, Edexcel, OCR, Ofqual|

Before I start I must give my thanks to the OCR Maths team for pointing me in the direction of some useful information about the changes to what you and I […]

Just Saying

JustMathsMel2016-08-24T08:04:40+01:00August 24th, 2016|Blog, Edexcel|

Now that the Maths team at Edexcel are on Twitter ( @EmporiumMaths ) you can almost guarantee they’ll be […]

Another year …

JustMathsMel2016-08-23T01:31:34+01:00August 23rd, 2016|Personal|

I can’t sleep.

I had all these grand ideas about being able to do a blog post a day but I have slipped easily into “normal” life […]

Thought I’d share

JustMathsMel2016-07-31T11:31:43+01:00July 31st, 2016|Blog, Personal|

So it’s Sunday morning and I’ve had a lie in but it appears that my god-kids have been up doing some maths this morning. My god-son Vinnie was up at 8 […]

Blogging and Twitter

JustMathsMel2016-07-24T01:06:37+01:00July 24th, 2016|Blog, Personal|

In October 2014 I wrote a post about why I blog and tweet (I still don’t know what makes a good or […]

Well I never!

JustMathsMel2016-07-23T23:57:41+01:00July 23rd, 2016|DFE, Ofqual|

I have to take my hat off to Ofqual for their recent response to an freedom of information request I made to them .. I’m quite impressed because someone has thought […]

A reminder

JustMathsMel2016-07-23T23:58:23+01:00July 23rd, 2016|Blog, Personal, Teaching|

Today has been the first time in a few years where we haven’t been saying goodbye to someone in the team or saying our own farewells on the last day of […]