PISA tests .. grrr!
Yesterday Dr Vanessa Pittard (Assistant Director, Curriculum and Standards) gave a DFE update as the opening speech at a maths conference – a section of this was devoted to showing our position in […]
September 2014
a quickie post
Yesterday’s maths conference organised by La Salle Education was amazing … so much so that I am exhausted from the adrenaline rush of the excitement, and haven’t even started to catch up with […]
4 weeks down
4 weeks down and it has been a roller coaster ride.
Actually let me add to that: it has been a roller coaster ride with an upward trajectory!
For those of […]
Naughty Naughty!
Very naughty!
This morning my timeline was flooded with tweets from various newspapers screaming the headlines […]
Spend more time in the classroom
This week our new Education Secretary wrote an open letter to the unions (OPEN LETTER TO UNIONS) and the key line is “teachers join the profession to teach and we […]
A couple of dates:
Over the next few weeks I will be at a couple of things where there will be more maths teachers than you can shake a stick at, so …. what do you call a […]
Mid-week Post
I got in a couple of hours ago from a parish meeting and having open evening last night which was a late one means […]
Oh my! Open Week!
During the month of September most schools have “open evening” … it turns out that at Alcester Academy its “open week” […]
OCR support
In my day job we’ve always used Edexcels maths GCSE (we did have a dabble in the early days with the OCR Graduated Assessment modular thingy) but as “JustMaths” I’m quite open to […]
Ringing the changes
Saddo that I am, I am sat comparing the previous versions of OCR’s Sample Assessment Materials with those that have just been released by them as part of their specification – they were the first to announce […]
