MA/ATM CPD Session – Sat 12/03/2016
“Making Numbers” – Supporting children’s understanding and reasoning
The marvellous Rob Smith (call him Robert James .. he loves it!) sent me some information about a session that […]
February 2016
Keep an eye out
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 […]
Acronyms … wow… just wow!
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 […]
FROM THE COALFACE 1
To HOD or not to HOD – The poison chalice?
Occasionally, when I’m […]
Getting to zero
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 […]
Collaboration
I agreed to get involved with the GLOW hub GCSE working party, looking at the new GCSE with […]
We was robbed!
You couldn’t make it up!
So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was […]
Choosing an exam board …
Something must have pulled someones chain because this week this appeared on the Ofqual blog.
I have included […]
January 2016
Primary Maths Challenge
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 […]
Mr Bartons PodCast
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 […]
