Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, will have a flavour of me, as a teacher and I rarely do downbeat or feel sorry for myself (don’t worry I’m not going to start now) … but we all have times when you want to throw in the proverbial towel, even if only … Read more
Several months ago we were asked to be part of a Teachology conference, which we gleefully accepted. Seager does this kind of thing all the time but this was the first time that I’d been involved (apart from the filming for Edexcel .. “google” it as I am waaaaay too embarrassed to even watch the … Read more
Just a quickie … I’ve been putting together another “nitty gritty” worksheet this morning and have decided to put them all in one post rather than hidden in other posts where I’m waffling (don’t laugh at that point as if you know what I mean!). The idea behind these are that they focus on the basic numeracy … Read more
Last week I posted about the Ofqual survey and this evening I’ve spent some time completing it. I was going to critique each of the questions, but I’ll let you have a look yourself and I think I covered most of my issues with it in my previous post, so let me show you what is really … Read more
Friday was the last “big” maths exam and I breathed a huge sigh of relief as it felt that as if the moment we’d (I mean me and my year 11’s) been working towards for the last three years was here and then it happened in the blink of an eye. Most of my groups have been with … Read more
So Ofqual are launching an anonymous online survey next week, (TES article here) with the aim of teachers disclosing any tactics that schools have used to give students an “unfair advantage” in boosting their exam results. Basically the idea is that they want to hear about any practices, which according to the article are used to “maximise” results, and I quote “such … Read more
I got in late last night from a parish council meeting and had intended on blogging as I’ve loads to tell you but so little time! We’ve had year 11 in for revision this week and they’re back tomorrow for 4 hours (half of the year group at a time, for 2 hours) which means I have to … Read more
In a previous post here about “frequency trees” I said that I was more than happy to stand corrected by AQA, so I am on my feet and have been very much corrected … Who’da thunk it!! Today it was pointed out to me that “frequency trees” are explicitly mentioned as a requirement in the DFE programme of … Read more
BLOG 1 of SEVERAL … So the draft specifications have been published for the new GCSE, which meant that whilst the footie was on last night I was working through the sample assessment materials (I know! I am soooo rock n’ roll!!). It did however turn out to be an interesting and hysterical evening, with … Read more
At the back end of 2013 the government published their proposed programmes of study for both KS3 and KS4 Maths, and then subsequently opened a consultation to these proposals which closed on 3rd February 2014. I have previously posted a summary of the content changes in terms (here’s the link) in terms of what is moving from … Read more
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