What we know and what we don’t – THE FACTS!
EDIT 28th MARCH 2017 – Given the news today -> TES report here about the change to accountability measures this post is now outdated!! I will […]
I wish I could keep my gob shut – a “good” pass!
This evening has been one of the most frustrating I’ve had in a long time. I’ve been distracted and I can feel my blood pressure rising; today was MathsConf6 and from […]
Oqual Teacher Focus Groups
A contact sent this through to me to share with fellow teachers. In the body of the email forwarded to me it mentions that the aim is to “elicit […]
A suggestion for DFE …
It seems apt given both the financial situation schools are finding themselves in but also the recruitment issue to point out that we’re STILL doing our bit. At the start of […]
NRT’s
I mean National Reference Tests!
An update was published recently on the
A little bit every day …
Here in Warwickshire we’re in the shortest half term I have ever experienced – it’s a “4-weeker”. It hasn’t been helped by me being off sick today and yesterday for the […]
Resits …
My thoughts recently have been concerned with resits of one form or another, both at either end of the 11 -16 age spectrum. So not only are we dealing […]
MA/ATM CPD Session – Sat 12/03/2016
“Making Numbers” – Supporting children’s understanding and reasoning
The marvellous Rob Smith (call him Robert James .. he loves it!) sent me some information about a session that […]
Keep an eye out
Recently I’ve approached my teaching with a renewed focus – part of this stems from the fact that the teaching is the part of the job I really love. The main […]
Acronyms … wow… just wow!
So it’s “New (half) Terms Eve” … again … it feels like “Groundhog day”, in that every Sunday evening before we go back to school I feel the same – a […]
