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
This week our new Education Secretary wrote an open letter to the unions (OPEN LETTER TO UNIONS) and the key line is “teachers join the profession to teach and we have a common interest in reducing – where we can – unnecessary work that takes teachers time away from teaching”. Now the thing is, this … Read more
I got in a couple of hours ago from a parish meeting and having open evening last night which was a late one means that I am currently sat here zombie-like and procrastinating. You know that feeling where you have loads to do, but can’t see the wood for the trees … well, that! Just … 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
I’ve been doing a few exciting projects recently and in between we’ve been sorting the new maths corridor out. As a result I’ve been panicking a tad about my own classroom displays (I think I’m sorted now as a few of you emailed me some great ideas!) I have 7 boards, and the whole wall … Read more
Here are the templates for you to use with the download data for the 1MA0 papers from Edexcel. along with the usual instructions about importing your data into the workbooks (here). There is also an additional version with some extra functionality to print multiple sheets (the brilliant Paul Pavlou (@UKMathsTeacher) did some tweaking on my original ones last … Read more
** turns page ** Right now I’m at school, saying goodbye and celebrating results. We are leaving the maths department on a massive high, and as one of my mates told me it’s “all tied up with a bow” – I could go on, and on, but the results are not ours, they are our students’. This … 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
A message for all you heads of department out there: if you haven’t used something for five years or more the odds on you needing it are close to nil! so stop saying “we might need it” … Listen to me when I say “NO YOU WON’T!!” – to be honest I don’t think the issue … Read more
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