Year 11 (2 of n)
We’ve done our first full week with year 11 and I’m buzzing! They have (in the main) been amazing.
As I always say context is really important so I’d probably better give some background to my […]
September 2025
August 2025
New School Year … this blog … the plan … (1 of n)
The summer is nearly over and I’ve been thinking through my plan about what I want to do with this blog this year and have come up with an idea …
… I’m going to document […]
May 2025
Getting my teaching mojo back!
Hey you,
It’s been a while … how’re you doing?
Me? … THE SHORT ANSWER
Yeah … I’m good.
Me? … THE LONG ANSWER:
Yeah … I’m good now. Life is hectic as […]
September 2024
Post GCSE results … using ResultsPlus
This is “take 2” in writing this post so lets crack on (part 1 can be found here!) … In the below I’ll show you what I usually do every year but it doesnt […]
Post GCSE Results PART 1
I’ve had to add this paragraph after writing the below post. I came on here to write about using Pearsons “resultsplus” data/webapge and how we’ve used it over the last few days … […]
July 2023
To whoever needs some reassurance ..
I tweeted the above yesterday having just walked out of school on my last day … and now, having reflected on it, I think […]
Pastures new …
It’s not as drastic as the title suggests … in fact for many it’s not even something that warrants a blog post but for me it’s a biggie.
But first a little […]
December 2022
Christmas Message From a Legend!
For those of you that have been around longer than Liz Truss was in power you will know that Graham Cumming used to send out a Christmas message every year … and so as not […]
July 2021
The why?
Why we do what we do has been on my mind recently (I mean teaching!).
It’s been the most bizarre 18 months of most of our lives and the world feels like […]
June 2021
“Exams” exams ??
Dear Teachers,
I hope you’re keeping well and that your TAGs have been put to bed or at the least you can see the end is in sight!
Just a note […]
