Heads down

2014-07-05T20:59:11+01:00July 4th, 2014|Blog|

Students today are bombarded with “stuff” that involve all their senses, and something I read today (which for the life of me I can’t find now!) has got me thinking about […]

Homework …

2014-07-02T08:53:29+01:00July 2nd, 2014|Blog|

Back in the Summer I was all “keeno” and determined that I wasn’t going to let homework get the better of me … oh how wrong was I? It hasn’t worked […]

Exam marking

2014-07-01T00:01:06+01:00July 1st, 2014|Blog|

Two things. One of which is a hint if you mark using Epen (if you don’t know what that is, you can assume that you aren’t using it!), and the second […]

A reminder ..

2014-06-30T22:41:55+01:00June 30th, 2014|Blog|

Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, will have a flavour of me, as a teacher and I rarely do downbeat or feel sorry for myself (don’t […]

Our day out ..

2014-06-22T11:41:06+01:00June 22nd, 2014|Blog|

Several months ago we were asked to be part of a Teachology conference, which we gleefully accepted. Seager does this kind of thing all the time but this was the first […]

Nitty Gritty

2014-08-11T18:15:31+01:00June 22nd, 2014|5 - Misc., Blog|

Just a quickie … I’ve been putting together another “nitty gritty” worksheet this morning and have decided to put them all in one post rather than hidden in other posts where […]

Ofqual survey …

2014-06-17T20:45:11+01:00June 17th, 2014|Blog|

Last week I posted about the Ofqual survey and this evening I’ve spent some time completing it. I was going to critique each of the questions, but I’ll let you have […]

Phew! and breathe!

2014-06-16T23:54:09+01:00June 16th, 2014|Blog|

Friday was the last “big” maths exam and I breathed a huge sigh of relief as it felt that as if the moment we’d (I mean me and my year 11’s) been […]

Faith restored

2014-06-07T21:29:24+01:00June 7th, 2014|Blog|

A bit of a “feel good” post for the weekend … and absolutely NOTHING to do with maths!!

Tomorrow is Fathers Day (EDIT – Actually just found […]

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