Hey you! … yep, I’m back as promised. This time I’ve cracked open the Edexcel Foundation Paper 2 examiner’s report. As you know (well, I’m assuming you know but why else would you read this shiz??) … it’s a calculator paper and it would seems that the theme this year is “having a calculator is … Read more
Hey you … how’s it going? Do you ever get the Sunday night jitters? I used to, now not to so much though … I suppose I’m lucky in that I like my job … well … I spend more time enjoying it than not enjoying it … and that’s got be a win … … Read more
So it’s “new school year” eve and I can’t flipping sleep … this is now my … ummm … oh I don’t know … genuinely I can’t recall how many of these I’ve done but it doesn’t get any easier for me. Every year is the same so you would have thought that I’d know … Read more
This is a “sticky” post (so will always appear at the top of the blog) and is intended to be used for us to signpost people to a “sort of” set of instructions on how to access and generate the R.A.G. paper functionality that we’ve developed – an overview is also available on the R.A.G. … Read more
This is the post I wanted to write yesterday. When the GCSE was reformed back in 2017 me and Seager spent hours, weeks, even months thinking about what teaching “our kind” of students aiming to get them that magic grade 4 would look like. You may be new here and not be aware that we … Read more
I’ve had to add this paragraph after writing the below post. I came on here to write about using Pearsons “resultsplus” data/webapge and how we’ve used it over the last few days … I’ve got screenshots and EVERYTHING (including some excel workbooks to share with you!!) to do an instructional blog … I then started … Read more
So I’ve fallen out of the habit of posting my random thoughts on here … life is busier than it’s ever been but I’m feeling like I’m slowly getting into a routine with all the stuff that’s going on and it feels like as good a time as any to get back into this on … Read more
It’s not as drastic as the title suggests … in fact for many it’s not even something that warrants a blog post but for me it’s a biggie. But first a little tangent explaining my relative absence to the world of blogging. I started writing this blog nearly eleven years ago as a way to … Read more
EDIT: I’ve come back to this and want to apologise for this brain dump … I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about when it started. It just happened. Blogging Tourettes … Tonight I can’t sleep. It’s the night before GCSE results day and for the last two years we’ve gone into results … Read more
Me again. Today the exam boards published the advance information for the November exam series. You can find them using the links below: AQA OCR Pearson / Edexcel (click on Nov 22 Support) I’ve also put together some student friendly versions which aren’t 20 + pages long. There are two versions: Can be printed on … Read more
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