This is another one of those post’s where I am not claiming credit for this but loved it so much I adapted it for my own use and thought I’d share it further – I’ve just offered the idea out to other teachers at school and it has been taken up by over 1/2 the teaching staff (and I’ve kept reprographics busy … Read more
A conversation on Thursday got me thinking, about what assessments we’d move to with our new year 9 from September. It’s not my decision, but as with all these things I have a viewpoint (you wouldn’t expect anything less would you!). Let me explain what we do now with regards testing: We do an initial … Read more
A couple of weeks ago “we” got an email asking if “we” could step in and do a slot at next weeks maths collaborative meeting (think the old HOD meetings, but much, much, much better!), and “we” agreed that “we’d” do something about the new GCSE, and our plans as a school to start teaching our … Read more
I’ve just spent a very satisfying two hours digging at my lottie – now don’t get me started as I can be an “allotment bore”. I’d forgotten how nice it was to get out in the fresh air, but despite that, I felt guilty not doing any work (obviously not that guilty, or I’d be working and not blogging!). I’m not … Read more
I’m usually a golf widow on Saturday mornings, but today was different and we’d spent the morning having a “sort out”, which is how I found myself at the local waste collection site (more commonly known as “the tip”!) with the boot of my car full of stuff that we’ve finally got around to deciding we no … Read more
Yes I know there’s a spelling mistake! … but need to get this off my chest. IT IS NOT OK TO SAY YOU ARE CRAP AT MATHS! Ok so maybe you couldn’t solve quadratics at school, but no matter what you do for a living, EVERYONE USES MATHS, EVERY SINGLE DAY. FACT! Get over it, and … Read more
I am having the day off work today … ok, so that’s not quite true, but I’m not busting a gut to get anything done, just pottering and doing other stuff around the house as well as doing “a bit” when the fancy takes me. So here’s a bit of an update (and if you’re … Read more
The following is a blog post I’ve written for the National College for Teaching and Leadership – I have agreed to be a case study to try to encourage other career changers into teaching (at least I can say I’m doing my bit, to address the looming teacher shortage – rather than being all “doom and gloom”) It’s probably not the … Read more
This morning I’ve finished marking my year 11 mocks (well! I say finished … I mean I’ve marked the non calculator paper … the 2nd paper isn’t until Monday) and whilst overall they are pretty good, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some deliberate practice with them to keep the “bread and butter” topics fresh … Read more
Just a quickie post in a bullet point “stylee” .. – Manic week, not made any better by being germ ridden! (read that as: “have a cold”). We do lots of one to one tuition and we started these again in Maths this week after the students mocks, which means “free (and I include PPA) lessons” … Read more
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