“did I sign up for this?”

A couple of weeks ago “we” got an email asking if “we” could step in and do a slot at next weeks maths collaborative meeting (think the old HOD meetings, but much, much, much better!), and “we” agreed that “we’d” do something about the new GCSE, and our plans as a school to start teaching our … Read more

Teacher guilt midweek post

I’ve just spent a very satisfying two hours digging at my lottie – now don’t get me started as I can be an “allotment bore”. I’d forgotten how nice it was to get out in the fresh air, but despite that, I felt guilty not doing any work (obviously not that guilty, or I’d be working and not blogging!). I’m not … Read more

Maths Network Meeting

If you are within about 20 or 30 miles of the school at which we work, you should have received an invite to the next Edexcel Maths Collaborative Network meeting (not to be confused with the stuff we’ve been doing on the Scheme of Work .. I can see this getting very confusing!!) – basically … Read more

Not new ..

I tweeted a photo of a lego worksheet I made and some bugger avid reader pointed out a grammatical error. I can’t believe its taken over 15 months for anyone to notice that I’d written “bought” instead of “brought” .. I’ve been waiting for someone to notice (ahem!) all this time. Anyway I’ve updated the w/sheet … Read more

5 Year Wall

Before I go on, let me say this post isn’t bad news and probably not what you’re assuming from the title  … gosh that sounds almost like “I think you need to sit down”. I should also say: I am not posting this “for effect” (that’s not my style), or  looking for sympathy (I don’t!) nor is it because I’ve … Read more

Collaborative SOW Update

In the spirit of sharing and making this truly a collaborative project I promised I’d post an update so here it is: We went through the KS3 and KS4 programmes of study and produced a sort of running order. If you’re interested I’ve attached the spread sheet (here) and there is a tab called “Version for comments” … Read more

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