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 place every single day!! I love it so I asked Richard Whitehouse to do me a write up of the idea … do read on and … Read more
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
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 driver though is a quest to understand common misconceptions as I’ve been thinking about where they fit in my chain of thought when it … Read more
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 group fighting against a quarry in my village which for the last 3 weeks has generated about 20-25 emails (Don’t ask!) a DAY!! Anyway … Read more
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 of the exam boards and listening to them has been brilliant – it’s nice to hear people talking about Maths education. No! It really is … Read more
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 am raring to go feeling chilled out and very relaxed. I’ve come to the conclusion that my “to-do” list will always be “chocker-block” and … Read more
Just a thought … yesterday was the first of our Saturday school sessions. As the first one, my plan was to cover 3 topics where I did a worked example on the board with them and then they got to work on similar problems themselves – nothing too exciting but it’s a way of setting … Read more
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 so many half-written blog posts that a couple of them are no longer relevant and the moment has passed when I get to relook … Read more
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
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 you’ve struggled to get any extra time. I’ve hunted down the original speech by Gove back in 2013 ( Here’s the speech ) when he said: … Read more
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