Teaching
I know, I know!!
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
How do you define context?
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
Data monkeying
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
DIY homework
I posted a blog a few weeks ago in which I collated a load of homework ideas from Twitterworld – here’s the post – (thank you to all the amazing tweeters, who made suggestions) one of the ideas from @sarahestocker, that I said I was going to try was getting students to design worksheets for other students … Read more
Welcome …
For those of you that read this blog regularly, you can stop now as this isn’t aimed at you … it’s meant as a quick *hello* to new readers who have come looking for resources or ideas. I suspect (based on the stats, which have gone mental over the Summer. Did no one tell you, that … Read more
PGCE subject mentoring
This year will be the third year that the school at which we work, will be hosting PGCE students within the maths department. Believe it or not, a few years ago, we had to contact the local university several times in order to be considered … despite the fact that myself and Seager both did … Read more
Edexcel 1MA0 ResultsPlus Template
Here it is … if you use Edexcel 1MA0 this will make using the ResultsPlus service so much more user friendly. We will give a copy to every student who sat the exam and it will help them identify areas where they lost those “kick yourself” marks. Its really easy to use a- I’ve put … Read more
KS4 to KS5 transition
It’s that time of year when inevitably, the media is in a feeding frenzy with stories about grade boundaries being inflated or deflated, how education is on the decline, or how education is now so much better depending on which paper you choose to read, but for teachers working at the coal face life goes … Read more
Homework ideas
Last year the school introduced a whole-school homework timetable – this meant that as a core subject we have to set homework every week. I’m not saying we didn’t set it regularly as that’s not the case – but I’m not convinced that setting homework for “homework’s sake” is the right way to go about … Read more
