The above was me last week!! You can’t have failed to notice that last week, in a speech about primary assessment Justine Greening announced that the government “will not introduce statutory mathematics and reading resits on children’s arrival in year 7.” It seems that sense (for once) has been seen and all the kerfuffle that … Read more
I’ve got a very open mind about the changes at the DFE but it was good (of course it wasn’t!) to see the PR & media machines were at work already when I saw all over my Twitter timeline that the DFE confirmed today there would be “no … year 7 resits in the 2016/17 … Read more
I’m going to be true to my word and this post isn’t going to be about BREXIT. … ummm … oh … ummmm … (imagine me swaying from foot to foot as I try to think of a way to sweeten this)… well … ummm … it “sort of” is … but also “sort of” … Read more
Yesterday I sparked up my hard drive with all my old resources on (I was looking for something and rediscovered a treasure trove of stuff I have made, used, stolen or magpied over the years but forgotten about!) for the first time in about 18 months and came across something that I used in a … Read more
We’ve just started using the bread and butter starters (here is the link to my original POST ) with our year 11 “super group” and it got me thinking about how I could do something similar with years 7 and 8, so that by the time the students get further up the school they are used to … Read more
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