22 February 2016 | BlogTeaching
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 driver though is a quest to understand common misconceptions as I’ve been thinking about where they fit in my chain of thought when it ... Read more
21 February 2016 | Blog
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 slight panic that maybe I could have done more work (not possible I’m afraid!). It doesn’t help that in my quest to empty my ... Read more
20 February 2016 | Blog
To HOD or not to HOD – The poison chalice? Occasionally, when I’m not being over-protective about this being “my blog” I hand over the reigns to a guest author and this evening is one of those times -having put a “shout out” for guest posts it looks like I’m going to have a series ... Read more
17 February 2016 | BlogTeaching
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 group fighting against a quarry in my village which for the last 3 weeks has generated about 20-25 emails (Don’t ask!) a DAY!! Anyway ... Read more
15 February 2016 | Blog
I agreed to get involved with the GLOW hub GCSE working party, looking at the new GCSE with other teachers (you may have seen the exam questions by topic I put together as part of this?); on Friday we had our second meeting and a few things came out of it: We were looking at ... Read more
9 February 2016 | Blog
You couldn’t make it up! So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was “Ofsted’ed” back in Autumn – I’ve written about it here -> part 1, part 2 and part 3. To cut a long story short at the end of the inspection our leadership team were told that the “overall effectiveness” ... Read more
1 February 2016 | BlogNEW GCSE 9-1
Something must have pulled someones chain because this week this appeared on the Ofqual blog. I have included the text as it appears today (some of these government bodies update their pages after comments are made on a public forum … so just in case!) and also added my own comments to it just for ... Read more
31 January 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 primary maths challenge which is aimed at students in years 5 and 6. It is held every November with bonus rounds usually in the ... Read more
31 January 2016 | BlogInterventionTeachingTES
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 of the exam boards and listening to them has been brilliant – it’s nice to hear people talking about Maths education. No! It really is ... Read more
19 January 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 remember (I know it sounds odd) that myself and Seager met with the lead inspector to get feedback on our lessons together. As we walked in it felt OK (we ... Read more
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