Just a quickie …. You may know I’m a fan of the Edexcel/Pearson collaborative network meetings – this term will be the first time in about 4 or 5 years that I’ve not been involved in the one at my “home” school but I’ll be attending lots of other ones up and down the country … Read more
As usual I’m sharing excel workbooks that you can use to analyse your cohort level data from Edexcels ResultsPlus … unfortunately these ones don’t have the “multiprint” option (…yet! … I’m working on it!) but I’ve put a blank version in the workbook too as we’ve always printed the blank versions off and got students … Read more
Just a quickie … I’m working through my emails/to do list and so I’m going to apologise in advance because you may find some posts published over the next few days/weeks that seem quite random as I tick things of that bloomin’ list! Anyway … if you use Pearson/Edexcel and your subject is one of the … Read more
This is gonna be quick … I promise! But thought I’d share … I see part of my job in year 7 is to get students comfortable just playing around with numbers. Yes, I want there to be no fear about making mistakes but I also want students to be numerate and as I say … Read more
I can’t let this pass without comment … the DFE need to sort this out … it’s a fecking mess !! Let me remind you that in March Justine Greening wrote to the Education Select Committee (letter -> here ) and in this she states “Where employers, FE providers and universities currently accept a grade C we … Read more
Back in January I wrote (in this post-> here ) about how comparability across tiers was going to be ensured by the exam boards and Ofqual. I included some analysis about the percentage of marks available on the “crossover” topics for Edexcel, AQA and OCR; I also went off on a tangent about the why … Read more
Just a quickie to let you know about the forthcoming dates for the collaborative network meetings that Pearson Edexcel run. If you haven’t been to one you need to get yourself involved – the emphasis in these meetings is meant to be on teaching and learning, rather than exam focus but inevitably given that this … Read more
This idea came out of our last Edexcel network meeting at Alcester whereby we discussed the impossible task of allocating grades given that none of the exam boards are able to give the slightest guidance. After a discussion we agreed that it would be useful to share anonymous student marks for the secure mocks to … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, whilst wrapped up with my quilt, suffering with a bout of manflu I used the opportunity to have another look at the SAMs, specimens and practice papers alongside marking and collating the results from my year 10 class following their recent assessments. Additionally, I spent this down-time looking at the similar … Read more
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