You may have, like me, received the following email with a load of blurb about Mathspeak 2013 … all you really need to know is that one of the speakers is Seager!!! The inaugural Mathspeak 2013 conference being held this November at the IndigO2 arena. This conference offers the ideal opportunity after the November GCSE examinations … Read more
We’re having a focus on assessment for learning at the minute, which means we been relooking at what we do in terms of policies and practice (snore, snore, snore!). As a result I’ve been looking at ways to try to make the marking of students work both manageable and meaningful for the students … its a … Read more
is a bit like marmite … you either love it or hate it. Especially at secondary schools, when the students already have a firm idea on where they stand on the subject and the usual response is “I ‘ate fractions!!” It’s a topic that I usually can’t get too excited about, but it’s one in … Read more
.. how we’ve used early entry, Mr Gove. You would know that we haven’t used it to cheat your league tables (which, just-so-you-know show the school at which we work to be “most improved school in the country” in Jan 2013) … we’ve used it to give our students a better chance in the life they have … Read more
Been meaning to post about this since I did the exam marking in the summer, but have been seriously busy (haven’t we all?) and just as I’m about to revise T&I with some of my one to one students its prompted me to finish the post that was started so long ago. To some of … Read more
Been planning lessons this weekend and have put the attached together (and solution) which I am going to use with all my year groups over the next few weeks – either as a starter or the main activity – depending on the group. So my lower years/abilities will get it as the main course and my higher years/abilities … Read more
Its Friday night and most of you don’t want to even think about work … but I want to pick some brains about how other schools deal with the teaching at KS5. I have tried to explain what we do, twice now and even got myself confused so am going to refer to the four teachers as … Read more
I received an email today from Suzann Wells (from Samuel Whitbread Academy) about one of the June 2013 worksheets – the Box Plots one to be specific. Following this I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get my head around what defines context in terms of an exam answer, and how it is sometimes open … Read more
I‘m not even sure that “monkeying” is a real word, but Seager calls me the department’s “data monkey” and I am sure most departments will have one … if you haven’t got one … you need too. In some schools the person that handles the data will be the Head of Department, but in ours … Read more
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