You couldn’t make it up! So the school where we work in our “day jobs” was “Ofsted’ed” back in Autumn – I’ve written about it here -> part 1, part 2 and part 3. To cut a long story short at the end of the inspection our leadership team were told that the “overall effectiveness” … Read more
Something must have pulled someones chain because this week this appeared on the Ofqual blog. I have included the text as it appears today (some of these government bodies update their pages after comments are made on a public forum … so just in case!) and also added my own comments to it just for … Read more
As the saying goes: “every day is a school day” and last weekend at a meeting of the Teaching Committee of the Mathematical Association (the MA!) I found out about the primary maths challenge which is aimed at students in years 5 and 6. It is held every November with bonus rounds usually in the … Read more
If you don’t know about this you should do – Mr Barton has been doing some podcasts and they are brilliant. He has spoken to the “big names” from 3 of the exam boards and listening to them has been brilliant – it’s nice to hear people talking about Maths education. No! It really is … Read more
So I’ve shared the fact that we had “the call” (Part 1) and was observed (Part 2). Now time for the feedback session. You may remember (I know it sounds odd) that myself and Seager met with the lead inspector to get feedback on our lessons together. As we walked in it felt OK (we … Read more
oh come on … of course it’s not a genius idea. Right … brace yourself. For the record this is not a primary v secondary school debate – we’re all in this together and the fact is primary teaching is becoming ever more accountable, if that is even possible. The idea of resits in year … Read more
Ofqual have an open consultation and one of the things they are consulting on, is whether there should be an additional resit opportunity for the current Maths GCSE in the Summer of 2017. DUH!! OF COURSE THERE SHOULD! Let me lay out the facts … Current year 11 take their exams in June 2016. Those … Read more
Before I go on, let me tell you about Friday evening. I met an old colleague (we went “out, out” to watch Alan Davies BTW) and I told her about my day and mentioned how in my naivety as a newbie teacher I used to say that I was never going to turn into the … Read more
Do you ever have one of those days? Well I’m having one of those weeks! I’ve come to the conclusion that teaching means living your life in blocks of 6-8 weeks. I find myself saying “oh I’ll do it in the next holidays”. This just can’t be right. There has to be a better way … Read more
Please visit this post -> HERE for an updated version of all the questions on the foundation tier. Thanks
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