From the coalface II – Plymouth Challenge …
I came across an idea that All Saints Academy Plymouth is introducing …. this kind of thing is indicative of the kid of school to school sharing that takes […]
March 2016
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 […]
February 2016
Keep an eye out
Recently I’ve approached my teaching with a renewed focus – part of this stems from the fact that the teaching is the part of the job I really love. The main […]
Getting to zero
My aim this week is to get my inbox to nil and so I’m working through the contents slowly but surely – it hasn’t been helped by getting involved in a […]
January 2016
Mr Bartons PodCast
If you don’t know about this you should do – Mr Barton has been doing some podcasts and they are brilliant. He has spoken to the “big names” from 3 […]
November 2015
Numeracy Across the Curriculum
It’s the start of another new half term tomorrow and having just arrived back from Hong Kong and China I’m not quite sure what time of the day it is but […]
October 2015
Keeping time …
Just a thought … yesterday was the first of our Saturday school sessions. As the first one, my plan was to cover 3 […]
Sunday morning blog …
I miss blogging but I’ve been so busy for the last few weeks that I just haven’t had the time to do it as often as I like – I have […]
Bread and Butter 9-1
With our year 9 and 10 this year we are following the Edexcel 2 and 3 year […]
July 2015
Teaching time
A conversation on twitter got me thinking about the hours of teaching that the new GCSE is getting across the UK and possibly offer a “golden nugget” of an idea if […]
