December 2014

An election?

2014-12-11T00:28:58+00:00December 10th, 2014|Blog|

Anyone would have thought that there was an election soon. Oh there is! Silly me!

Driving into work this morning, having watched yet another bit of “teacher bashing” on breakfast news it […]

Ofqual teachers’ update

2014-12-07T15:00:40+00:00December 7th, 2014|Blog|

I have been sent the Ofqual teachers’ update no. 10 as I wasn’t aware that it existed, but there is an interesting comment hinting that there will be further revisions to the guidance issued […]

November 2014

Lesson Objectives

2014-12-01T22:23:11+00:00November 25th, 2014|Blog|

I’m just putting this out there … I really struggle with objectives, outcomes and success criteria in maths. Don’t even try to explain the differences to me … others have tried and it […]

Dirty Maths

2014-11-22T02:57:09+00:00November 22nd, 2014|Blog|

Dirty MathsI thought that title would get your attention!

Fool that I am, I brought home all my books for years 7, 8, 9 […]

Midweek Post

2014-11-20T00:47:30+00:00November 20th, 2014|Blog, Uncategorized|

… and so it ends. Today I received a letter that has left me in tatters … it was from the executor of my dads will following the sale of the family home […]

Making mocks “real”

2014-11-15T12:37:47+00:00November 15th, 2014|Blog|

I love other teachers! there! I’ve said it …

This week the amazing Simon Gibbs contacted me about whether I had done a best guess paper for a previous paper (I have something that will […]

A few thank you’s

2014-11-15T01:48:35+00:00November 15th, 2014|Blog|

Back in September my thoughts were on all the exciting stuff like getting the classroom and corridor sorted and today I sat back and reflected on how much it’s changed. In the “after” […]

“Geekexcitement”

2014-11-09T18:05:49+00:00November 9th, 2014|Blog|

So the first week after half term is done and dusted and it was a great week … well let’s just say that no-one has been injured (even after Seager invaded my blog!) […]

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