OMG … what a night!
Friday saw ten of us from Alcester Academy which is where we work as our day jobs, (otherwise it’d be just […]
June 2016
Celebrate the Teaching of Maths Day
Both 28 and 6 are ‘perfect’ numbers so the 28th June is a ‘perfect’ day to celebrate the teaching of […]
Matchsticks
Yesterday I sparked up my hard drive with all my old resources on (I was looking for something and rediscovered a treasure trove of stuff I have made, used, stolen or […]
MMSA letter to Nicky Morgan
In case you haven’t seen it the MMSA (the Meeting of Mathematics Subject Associations)* have written an openly published letter to Nicky […]
Letter to Alcester Academy
Over the half term I wrote a blog post about how the school we work at appearing on a “list” on the […]
From the coalface III
I get sent ideas all the time about ideas from other people – usually as a result of me liking something on Twitter and then asking if I can steal magpie […]
Perusing the DFE website …
So … the other evening I was checking to see if there were any updates on the DFE site (doesn’t everyone […]
May 2016
A little bit every day – JUNE 2016
The below is the maths calendar for June 2016 – I’ll be sending out to all parents of years 10 and possibly year 9 next week when we’re back – along […]
Summer 2016 – Hit List
To be honest I think last night/this morning was the MOST NERVOUS I have EVER been before an exam – for reasons unknown to me!.
Overall I felt […]
Student talk
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to manage student talking when they are working – I suppose it’s a result […]
