… than you can shake a stick at! So another #mathsconf5 has been and gone and my twitter line is full of people buzzing from the weekend. As I brushed my teeth on Friday afternoon before leaving to catch my train I had a vision of a Star Trek convention and it felt all a … Read more
Busy, busy, busy … waiting, waiting, waiting … so much I want to blog about but so little time! If you haven’t noticed, this month saw a visit by a load of UK Maths teachers to Shanghai as part of the “UK-Shanghai Maths Exchange” (does what it says on the tin basically!). I’ll cut to … Read more
Well hello … good to see you again. It’s been a few days as I’ve been busy – mentally busy with: open week, open evening, year 7 baseline tests and marking, all topped off with a few meetings too. Anyway I thought I’d seen the peak of madness when I wrote my recent post about … Read more
If you’ve arrived here looking for a list of topics and their new GCSE grade next to them … you’ll be disappointed. Two things arrived today that got me going “grrrrrr” so before I start let me just get this off my chest: “There is no such thing as a grade B topic, or a … Read more
First things first. I have been feeling the love with the recent competition to win 3 school subscriptions to JustMaths Online and last night put the names into a “bucket” (there wasnt a hat in the house big enough!!) having sat and cut my printed spreadsheet up into slips (don’t ask!) and drew out three … Read more
Just a quick post … OK … I’m sat shaking my head as I know that it’s just not going to be the case … So this evening I thought I had better do some “actual” lesson planning and so I jumped onto the Edexcel emporium – there are other exam boards available and I … Read more
Usually when we get a peak in stats I get a text from Seager saying ” who have you upset this time?” but I am lost for words … the response to THIS POST and this tweet NEW POST: Countdown to the Big Fat 50. Giveaway!! See post : http://t.co/O4zghYVyrp RT to be in with … Read more
UPDATED POST: COMPETITION NOW CLOSED .. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ENTERING … FEELING THE LOVE! So the end is nigh … and wow what a summer! For some of you now is probably not the time to say that we don’t got back until the 7th but to be honest I’m ready to go … Read more
I’ve had an epiphany. It was painless. After the last episode of Chinese Teachers and it was very predictable (bear with me I promise I will get to the “epiphany”) … the crux of the programme is that the Chinese teaching style won. The most worrying comment within the whole programme was when, just before … Read more
… in a land far, far away. Actually it’s not that long ago, unless you consider 5 years a long time and it isn’t that far away either! For the last week or so many schools will have analysed their results and will be looking for reasons for any drop in key measures especially when … Read more
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