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JustMathsMel2016-02-20T21:20:26+00:00February 20th, 2016|Blog|

To HOD or not to HOD – The poison chalice?

Occasionally, when I’m […]

Getting to zero

JustMathsMel2016-02-20T22:44:04+00:00February 17th, 2016|Blog, Teaching|

My aim this week is to get my inbox to nil and so I’m working through the contents slowly but surely – it hasn’t been helped by getting involved in a […]

Collaboration

JustMathsMel2016-02-15T13:07:46+00:00February 15th, 2016|Blog|

I agreed to get involved with the GLOW hub GCSE working party, looking at the new GCSE with […]

We was robbed!

JustMathsMel2016-02-09T22:48:24+00:00February 9th, 2016|Blog|

You couldn’t make it up!

So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was […]

Choosing an exam board …

JustMathsMel2016-02-02T11:47:06+00:00February 1st, 2016|Blog, NEW GCSE 9-1|

Something must have pulled someones chain because this week this appeared on the Ofqual blog.

I have included […]

Primary Maths Challenge

JustMathsMel2016-01-31T12:26:13+00:00January 31st, 2016|Blog|

As the saying goes: “every day is a school day” and last weekend at a meeting of the Teaching Committee of the Mathematical Association (the MA!) I found out about the […]

Mr Bartons PodCast

JustMathsMel2016-01-31T12:00:18+00:00January 31st, 2016|Blog, Intervention, Teaching, TES|

If you don’t know about this you should do – Mr Barton has been doing some podcasts and they are brilliant. He has spoken to the “big names” from 3 […]

The big “O” – part 3

JustMathsMel2016-01-19T22:29:37+00:00January 19th, 2016|Blog|

So I’ve shared the fact that we had “the call” (Part 1) and was observed (Part 2). Now time for the feedback session.

You may […]

Edexcel GCSE Results Plus – NOV 2015

JustMathsMel2016-01-12T11:42:52+00:00January 12th, 2016|Edexcel|

I have been inundated with requests for the “usual” ResultsPlus analysis sheets for the November 2015 paper – we didn’t have any students entered for the Foundation tier (we did have […]