A contact sent this through to me to share with fellow teachers. In the body of the email forwarded to me it mentions that the aim is to “elicit teacher preparedness for the upcoming and recently implemented GCSEs and A levels.” It goes on to say; “At Ofqual we hear a lot of anecdotal feedback … Read more
It seems apt given both the financial situation schools are finding themselves in but also the recruitment issue to point out that we’re STILL doing our bit. At the start of the 2014 academic year we launched SchoolScanner and contacted every school – initially there was a rush of jobs appearing but we’ve had to … Read more
I mean National Reference Tests! An update was published recently on the Ofqual blog and on several occasions I’ve written about these in December 2015, June 2015 and April 2015 so I’ve been following their development quite closely. Basically I think they’re a rubbish idea! I get the fact the government are crapping themselves about … 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
My thoughts recently have been concerned with resits of one form or another, both at either end of the 11 -16 age spectrum. So not only are we dealing with the impending new 9-1 GCSE, the ends of my spectrum are blurred with uncertainty (it isn’t as painful as that sounds!?!) and I find that … Read more
“Making Numbers” – Supporting children’s understanding and reasoning The marvellous Rob Smith (call him Robert James .. he loves it!) sent me some information about a session that the joint MA/ATM branch is running on Saturday 12th March in Leicester. Delivered by Jenni Back, Sue Gifford and Rose Griffiths (Leicester University and University of Roehampton), … 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
So it’s “New (half) Terms Eve” … again … it feels like “Groundhog day”, in that every Sunday evening before we go back to school I feel the same – a slight panic that maybe I could have done more work (not possible I’m afraid!). It doesn’t help that in my quest to empty my … Read more
To HOD or not to HOD – The poison chalice? Occasionally, when I’m not being over-protective about this being “my blog” I hand over the reigns to a guest author and this evening is one of those times -having put a “shout out” for guest posts it looks like I’m going to have a series … 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
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