Tick tock, tick tock
It is that time of year when I become a bit blinkered and focus on one thing … the maths GCSE for year 11! I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing and […]
May 2015
Election Eve
It is the day of the general election and all of the major parties are using the “we’re here at the behest of the voters” (or words to the effect) to try to win […]
So what makes it statisically significant?
I’ve been thinking.
Following a comment on my last post about statistical significance I’m putting my hands up and saying I don’t know enough about the maths behind “significance”… there are much […]
April 2015
Miss, I did do it … I promise!
The long awaited day has arrived and I’ve been doing my own version of an impatient child checking the DFE site and clicking refresh to see if the promised findings had been published […]
Golden Ticket
Study leave or not? that is the question! There is always some debate at this time of year about how different schools structure their study leave and lots of schools now run a […]
Midweek Update
OK so it’s not mid-week yet but I have my last ever parish council meeting tomorrow (it’s the annual general meeting so not an “actual” meeting) and I will officially no longer be Councillor Muldowney having […]
I’ve been thinking
Just a quickie … busy, busy, busy …
We’re on the home run with year 11, but we’ve already started reflecting on what went well and what we need to refine from […]
OCR Check in Tests
Occasionally (ok quite a lot of the time!) I see resources and think “ooh that’s a great idea” and last week I was shown OCRs “check in” tests .. […]
National Reference Tests for all?
Back in March 2015 Ofqual announced that NFER had been awarded the contract to provide National Reference Tests ( OFQUAL ANNOUNCEMENT )
The idea is that Ofqual is introducing the […]
The Mathematical Association Conference Part 1
I’m just home having spent the last 3 days of the Easter Holiday at Keele University for the annual conference of the Mathematical Association and I’ve come away with loads to think about […]
