Parish Council meeting tonight (don’t ask!!), 2 sets of books to mark and 2 lesson obs to type up but I find that I am reading and re-reading a letter from Glenys Stacey. Teaching really is the job that just never stops giving. The latest chapter in the New 1-9 GCSE involves Glenys writing THIS LETTER … Read more
I am conscious that some of you don’t have the same sense of humour or outlook on life as me – after all “my perception is my reality” – so when I blog about the teacher shortage I don’t mean it to be all “doom and gloom”. In fact I do whatever I can do, … 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
We’ve been planning … I don’t mean that I’m planning for my classes though. Big Gasp! Of course I’m doing that too! What I’m talking about is putting together our “Plan of Attack” for the new GCSE’s. Between us (I mean the 3 of us at JustMaths) we’ve decided that we’re going to go “all … Read more
When DFE/Ofqual published some letters in relation to the new GCSE’s I had a vision of someone sat in an office, rubbing their hands, cackling and laughing because it was Christmas Eve. Surely no one would think that you could sneak this stuff under the radar? Think again! Not even the festivities would stop some … 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
So thoughts are turning to the new term and I am genuinely excited. Tomorrow evening I may feel differently!?!? We have a new member of staff joining the department who will be responsible for numeracy, which means together with myself, Seager, Will (who is also teaching his Science specialism) and two Assistant Heads we are … Read more
Here we go again … This type of headline scares me … you can’t see the entire article but you’ll get the gist. There is no denying … actually I’m going to edit myself … there is no denying that some reports would present findings that culminate (either matter of factly or go “around the houses”) … Read more
This will be the last post of 2014 and oh boy what a year is has been! I’ve done the #nurture thing for the last two years and reading back on the previous efforts makes me cringe. I can’t believe how much has changed but also how much of me “as a teacher” … warts … Read more
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