Grab a coffee … this felt good to write and think about … it’s a little like some of my older ranty posts and that feels good … Ready to dive in? I had an agreeable disagreement this week in the supermarket (I won’t elaborate) and we’re also looking at our gender balance at A … Read more
I’ve had to add this paragraph after writing the below post. I came on here to write about using Pearsons “resultsplus” data/webapge and how we’ve used it over the last few days … I’ve got screenshots and EVERYTHING (including some excel workbooks to share with you!!) to do an instructional blog … I then started … Read more
Me again. Today the exam boards published the advance information for the November exam series. You can find them using the links below: AQA OCR Pearson / Edexcel (click on Nov 22 Support) I’ve also put together some student friendly versions which aren’t 20 + pages long. There are two versions: Can be printed on … Read more
Its been a while. I know! I know! I know! … I don’t know if you noticed but life has been a bit different recently but I won’t bore you with the details at the minute as I’d be here all night and this is meant to be just a quick post. Back in September … Read more
I’ve written before about “the final countdown” that we have in place in the lead up to the exams so I’m not going to go over old ground and will cut to the chase! I’m also not going to have a rant about people making so called “predicted papers” … It worries me that certain groups of … Read more
I’m going to say something that is probably going to be widely contentious. Learning maths is different to other subjects … ok … so I probably need to add some provisos and context. Generally, I don’t have the privilege of teaching high flying groups (out of choice mainly!) and so most of the groups I … Read more
Last month I shared in this post, the work done by Teresa Robinson, who is the Lead Mathematics Adviser for the Russell Education Trust in relation to the Maths that is now in the new Science GCSE and I can now share part 2 (and there is also more to come soon!). I love the … Read more
A little later than planned but it was my 25th wedding anniversary this weekend! Anyway … better late than never! Below you will find two versions of the monthly maths calendar : Februarys “normal” version: – > Monthly Maths – 26 – Feb 2019 – Crossover Februarys “number skills” version (shown below): – > Monthly Maths – … Read more
I’ve not blogged as much as I’d like recently. I suppose I’ve also got a little out of the habit because life gets in the way and I’m being kept busy with “stuff”. We’ve been mega busy on a (not so) Top Secret project that seems to have expanded beyond the original intentions with Matt … Read more
You will know that I am a great fan of the Edexcel Hub Meetings (You don’t have to be an Edexcel centre to attend them and you can find details of the first few meetings this term below and you can also book a place for any of the other meetings – here too) … Read more
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