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 slight panic that maybe I could have done more work (not possible I’m afraid!). It doesn’t help that in my quest to empty my … Read more
To HOD or not to HOD – The poison chalice? Occasionally, when I’m not being over-protective about this being “my blog” I hand over the reigns to a guest author and this evening is one of those times -having put a “shout out” for guest posts it looks like I’m going to have a series … Read more
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 group fighting against a quarry in my village which for the last 3 weeks has generated about 20-25 emails (Don’t ask!) a DAY!! Anyway … Read more
I agreed to get involved with the GLOW hub GCSE working party, looking at the new GCSE with other teachers (you may have seen the exam questions by topic I put together as part of this?); on Friday we had our second meeting and a few things came out of it: We were looking at … Read more
You couldn’t make it up! So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was “Ofsted’ed” back in Autumn – I’ve written about it here -> part 1, part 2 and part 3. To cut a long story short at the end of the inspection our leadership team were told that the “overall effectiveness” … Read more
Something must have pulled someones chain because this week this appeared on the Ofqual blog. I have included the text as it appears today (some of these government bodies update their pages after comments are made on a public forum … so just in case!) and also added my own comments to it just for … Read more
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 primary maths challenge which is aimed at students in years 5 and 6. It is held every November with bonus rounds usually in the … Read more
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 of the exam boards and listening to them has been brilliant – it’s nice to hear people talking about Maths education. No! It really is … Read more
So I’ve shared the fact that we had “the call” (Part 1) and was observed (Part 2). Now time for the feedback session. You may remember (I know it sounds odd) that myself and Seager met with the lead inspector to get feedback on our lessons together. As we walked in it felt OK (we … Read more
oh come on … of course it’s not a genius idea. Right … brace yourself. For the record this is not a primary v secondary school debate – we’re all in this together and the fact is primary teaching is becoming ever more accountable, if that is even possible. The idea of resits in year … Read more
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