Mock season is upon us. People everywhere are drowning in papers. Amidst all this marking I asked the above question on Twitter, with regards what people say to the students when they are lining up waiting to go into their exam. The original question was prompted by my gaffer but [...]
Below you will find two versions of the monthly maths calendar : Novembers “normal” version: – > Monthly Maths - November 2018 Novembers “number skills” version: – > Monthly Maths - November 2018 - Number Skills The original post containing the sheets for October can be found -> here and the solutions [...]
I have a confession …. I bloody love a two-way table!! There! I’ve said it! … Lots of you will see this as just a topic we teach and then move on from but for me, along with Venn diagrams and dare I say it … frequency trees (for me [...]
I used to read books to help me go to sleep at night now I read government reports and it works a treat!! Sometimes however you come across some information that is genuinely useful - this week I came across some transition matrices from key stage 2 to GCSE - [...]
There are a couple of ideas that I've seen recently that have provided me with inspiration to develop something that I've been pondering for a while and so I thought it only right and proper to give credit where its due. We've always done something on the morning of [...]
Every year that I teach goes in a blur. It feels like I'm on a 6 to 8 week cycle with the bottom of the wash basket** only being seen once a cycle (**insert any household task that only gets done in the holidays!) and then the next thing you [...]
I've been doing these for a while now and they seem to be well received so I've done some NEW ones for the next half term break - I'll be printing them onto A3 with the solutions on the reverse for them to check their own work and giving them [...]
We have learning walks at work where everyone (I think!) is encouraged (it’s probably ”expected” but I haven’t done it!) to pop into other people’s lessons on a regular basis – to be honest it sounds worse than it actually is and ever since my NQT year when I hated [...]
And so it begins ... the final countdown ... For the last few years we've done a countdown to the exam in the form of weekly papers that we've sent direct to parents - along with markschemes and examiners comments and this year is no different. I try to use [...]
So the countdown to Christmas has begun but I'm a real grouch when it comes to getting all festive too early. The only concession I make is in my last lesson of every term I do a "pub" quiz. I even let the students choose who to have in their [...]
