I am conscious that some of you don’t have the same sense of humour or outlook on life as me – after all “my perception is my reality” – so when I blog about the teacher shortage I don’t mean it to be all “doom and gloom”. In fact I do whatever I can do, … 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
Here we go again … This type of headline scares me … you can’t see the entire article but you’ll get the gist. There is no denying … actually I’m going to edit myself … there is no denying that some reports would present findings that culminate (either matter of factly or go “around the houses”) … Read more
and no … I’m not walking up and down with a placard over my shoulders, shouting “the end of the world is nigh”! That’s not what I meant to picture when I typed that title .. honest! It’s the day before, the day before GCSE results are published and in some ways it’s also the close … Read more
Two things. One of which is a hint if you mark using Epen (if you don’t know what that is, you can assume that you aren’t using it!), and the second is an observation. (1) If you press CTRL ALT and the “left arrow key” you can rotate your screen and then pop your laptop on … Read more
A few things have happened recently that I want to shout about, but as I’m such a shy retiring person (!!!) I thought I’d fly it in under the radar and do it whilst most of you are throwing out some “zzzz’s”. (1) A while ago I asked Tom Riley @riley_ed if he’d like to review JustMaths Online … Read more
This post has been in the offing for a while – I am just finalising it and then rushing off to yet another flamin’ meeting! Roll on the weekend when I have time to catch up on everything – a teacher’s lot is one of constantly putting the big jobs off until the weekends until you have big chunks … Read more
A couple of weeks ago “we” got an email asking if “we” could step in and do a slot at next weeks maths collaborative meeting (think the old HOD meetings, but much, much, much better!), and “we” agreed that “we’d” do something about the new GCSE, and our plans as a school to start teaching our … Read more
I am having the day off work today … ok, so that’s not quite true, but I’m not busting a gut to get anything done, just pottering and doing other stuff around the house as well as doing “a bit” when the fancy takes me. So here’s a bit of an update (and if you’re … Read more
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