The long awaited day has arrived and I’ve been doing my own version of an impatient child checking the DFE site and clicking refresh to see if the promised findings had been published and so what a treat it was for me when THIS POST this appeared on the blog pages of Ofqual. I was so … Read more
OK so it’s not mid-week yet but I have my last ever parish council meeting tomorrow (it’s the annual general meeting so not an “actual” meeting) and I will officially no longer be Councillor Muldowney having made the decision to not stand at the next election so won’t be around to do my usual midweek blog post. When … Read more
Occasionally (ok quite a lot of the time!) I see resources and think “ooh that’s a great idea” and last week I was shown OCRs “check in” tests .. which are just brilliant. Check them out in the “Teaching and Learning” section at the bottom of this page Basically it’s a way of assessing the … Read more
Back in March 2015 Ofqual announced that NFER had been awarded the contract to provide National Reference Tests ( OFQUAL ANNOUNCEMENT ) The idea is that Ofqual is introducing the new National Reference Tests (NRTs) to provide additional information to support the awarding of the new “big fat” 9-1 GCSEs. The intention according to Ofqual is … Read more
Yes I know, it’s the Easter break for some of us (and for those of that are still at school you will get your revenge when we return to work earlier than you guys) and today I’ve been ticking off all those “housey” jobs that I never get time to do in term time (nothing … Read more
Some would say that there is a similarity between me and this picture: over the whole new GCSE accreditation. The most recent events just don’t sit right with me … this GCSE research programme which I blogged about HERE (the day before reported by TES by the way!!!) seems to me to be something thought up after all … Read more
I do try to be impartial about the different exam boards (trust me I try!!) and previously I’ve let you know what support OCR are offering (blog post -> HERE). I’ve also been contacted by Andrew Taylor at AQA just before Christmas (sorry it’s taken me so long to blog about it!) to let me … Read more
Today (a Saturday!) the letter from Nick Gibb to the awarding bodies was published on the DFE site (here). The content doesn’t really affect me or our students directly, but nonetheless does concern me for reasons I shall explain. The DFE have made the decision that iGCSEs (and that includes the “level 1 and 2 … Read more
Just a quickie .. it’s late … Below you will find our Results Plus Template (along with instructions) for the November 14 1MA0 Higher Tier that you can import your ResultsPlus data into to produce more user-friendly student question level analysis. ResultsPlus Instructions – Nov 2014 2014 11 November ResultsPlus Higher – Original 2014 11 November ResultsPlus … Read more
I’ve been meaning to post this since before Christmas as I know lots of you will be searching for help (as I was) in order to put something together for SMSC for your maths department. We’ve done a whole school audit and we went a stage further and put together our departmental statement/policy … call … Read more
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