Grahams Marvellous Drawers

I’ve written about the delights you’ll find in the cabinets on Edexcel’s emporium before and recently Graham (weird how I only need to mention “Graham” and everyone knows who I mean!!)  emailed out some new booklets that have been made for “DIY type” questions and also one which I know our students have struggled to … Read more

A little bit every day – APRIL 2016

The “page to a sheet” of questions that I put together for March in this post, seems to have been very well received … let’s just say I have been “feeling the love”. Furthermore (ooh get me!) I have attached the sheet for April for you to use or ignore -> Monthly Maths – APRIL. … Read more

A little bit every day …

Here in Warwickshire we’re in the shortest half term I have ever experienced – it’s a “4-weeker”. It hasn’t been helped by me being off sick today and yesterday for the first time in forever! My husband had enough on Sunday evening and forced the point with me, in no uncertain terms! He’s right (as … Read more

STICKY! 9-1 Exam questions by topic – BOTH TIERS

The below are all the questions collated by topic that appear on BOTH TIERS from the below samples and specimens: AQA – Sample Assessment Material, Practice set 1 and 2 OCR – Sample Assessment Material and Practice set 1 Pearson Edexcel – Sample Assessment Material, Specimen set 1 and set 2. WJEC Eduqas – Sample Assessment … Read more

Bread and Butter 9-1

With our year 9 and 10 this year we are following the Edexcel 2 and 3 year schemes work (it seemed as good a place as any and I know the work that has gone into checking/double checking & triple checking it by the maths team – the format is also something we are used … Read more

Frequency Trees .. post ?/n!

Before you say anything … I have not broken my blogging break – I’m not really here! I had a blogging binge before I left …. Anyway, I have written about frequency trees more than I care to admit but thought I’d share a homework (here -> Frequency Trees – LEARN Homework ) I’ve made for them … Read more

Bread and Butter – Grade C and Beyond

The bread and butter sheets for our year 11s have gone down really well and they’re having a massive impact. So I’ve been putting the finishing touches to some for those students working at grade C and beyond. I’ve detailed the original plan HERE and they ‘re meant to work in the same way as the … Read more

Vowel-Less

Yesterday I had to sweet-talk Sam (our site manager) into letting us in on Saturday morning – he is a hard man to negotiate with and we agreed that I’d get there for 7 (in fact I was there about 20 past … don’t lambast me people for being late but it’s Saturday!)  and I … Read more

Maths Periodic Table

I’ve been doing a few exciting projects recently and in between we’ve been sorting the new maths corridor out. As a result I’ve been panicking a tad about my own classroom displays (I think I’m sorted now as a few of you emailed me some great ideas!) I have 7 boards, and the whole wall … Read more

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