I’ve started thinking about lesson planning. I know! (don’t hate me! I’m not saying it to make you feel guilty) but I have news that means I have to get ahead of the game and be super organised this year. First the news … from September, myself and Seager are being seconded from our “day … Read more
I always joke that I took Engineering at uni because I was told by a careers advisor: “Don’t be silly … women can’t be engineers!” and I am not that old that we are talking about the 1800’s here people, but if I’m honest I had a genuine love of Physics and a curiosity as … Read more
I started writing this late last night but never posted it so I’ve come back to it this afternoon having been into school and seen the students open their results (and no I didn’t cry this year!) so please forgive the way my tenses change throughout the post. Once again, I’m unable to sleep but … Read more
Before I start I must give my thanks to the OCR Maths team for pointing me in the direction of some useful information about the changes to what you and I will know as “re-marks”. They also have a really useful post which you can find here -> OCR Blog. You know how I think … Read more
Now that the Maths team at Edexcel are on Twitter ( @EmporiumMaths ) you can almost guarantee they’ll be the first to tweet out grade boundaries etc which they have done this morning. So before the barrage of tweets (they’ve already started) and blogs about grade boundaries, grade inflation, higher versus foundation, which exam board … Read more
So it’s Sunday morning and I’ve had a lie in but it appears that my god-kids have been up doing some maths this morning. My god-son Vinnie was up at 8 am and his sister Madison ploughed in after breakfast and there was some much-needed golden silence in their household – I know because I’ve … Read more
In October 2014 I wrote a post about why I blog and tweet (I still don’t know what makes a good or a bad blog post by the way!) and then in Feb 2015 I wrote my “idiots guide to Twitter“. I suppose the point of this post is to say that if you’ve ever … Read more
Today has been the first time in a few years where we haven’t been saying goodbye to someone in the team or saying our own farewells on the last day of term – the department is stable and we have no one leaving either. I know this isn’t the case for lots of departments out … Read more
I saw a pic this week of an adaptation of the “maths” periodic table and so me, being me I asked if Claire would be happy for me to share …. yay!! She was!! … and has even done a little intro … so Ladies & Gents … from Claire Mazurkiewicz (on Twitter as @MrsMazzy) … Read more
So the year 7 catch-up funding has been confirmed again for 2016/17. It’s not something that concerned me greatly until the year 7 resits reared their ugly head and confirmation of how the funding works for this year is just another reason why the resit idea stinks. The fact is, and there is no way … Read more
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