Some would say that there is a similarity between me and this picture: over the whole new GCSE accreditation. The most recent events just don’t sit right with me … this GCSE research programme which I blogged about HERE (the day before reported by TES by the way!!!) seems to me to be something thought up after all … Read more
Parish Council meeting tonight (don’t ask!!), 2 sets of books to mark and 2 lesson obs to type up but I find that I am reading and re-reading a letter from Glenys Stacey. Teaching really is the job that just never stops giving. The latest chapter in the New 1-9 GCSE involves Glenys writing THIS LETTER … Read more
I do try to be impartial about the different exam boards (trust me I try!!) and previously I’ve let you know what support OCR are offering (blog post -> HERE). I’ve also been contacted by Andrew Taylor at AQA just before Christmas (sorry it’s taken me so long to blog about it!) to let me … Read more
Today (a Saturday!) the letter from Nick Gibb to the awarding bodies was published on the DFE site (here). The content doesn’t really affect me or our students directly, but nonetheless does concern me for reasons I shall explain. The DFE have made the decision that iGCSEs (and that includes the “level 1 and 2 … Read more
Just a quickie .. it’s late … Below you will find our Results Plus Template (along with instructions) for the November 14 1MA0 Higher Tier that you can import your ResultsPlus data into to produce more user-friendly student question level analysis. ResultsPlus Instructions – Nov 2014 2014 11 November ResultsPlus Higher – Original 2014 11 November ResultsPlus … Read more
Now that the last “big” or should that be the “biggest” maths exam board has been accredited looking at the specimen papers can begin, so hopefully you’ll find this post useful. Someone once said to me that part of the decision-making process will be about how close the exam boards interpret the technical spec published … Read more
Over the next few weeks I will be at a couple of things where there will be more maths teachers than you can shake a stick at, so …. what do you call a collection of maths teachers? … ooh get me! I’m sure there is a little bit of literacy in there somewhere?!? Well I … Read more
It is hump day! yay! We are now officially closer to Friday than the start of the week. So much to tell you but got waylaid this evening with an urgent request doing someone a favour, so it’ll have to wait until the weekend. I have however been thinking about “stuff” – driven by the fact that … Read more
For those of you that have key stage 5 and use Edexcel as your exam board I have attached below some templates for you to import your ResultsPlus data into – particularly useful for those students carrying on into year 13. I did notice that the data download from Edexcel for KS5 didnt include the … Read more
Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Michael Goveylocks (thanks Michelle for renaming my main character… love it!). He went for a walk in the forest and whilst out walking he pondered on all the things that were wrong in the world and decided it would be his “thing” to change the face of education … Read more
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