I did promise that I would be chronicling the journey … warts and all! (Mainly mine!) so here goes: It’s Friday evening and I am absolutely “banjaxed” after a week that has been full of highs and lows. To those of you that have moved jobs in teaching, more than once (I’m not sure I … Read more
This is probably one of the most honest posts I’ve ever written: I have come to the conclusion that I must be a nightmare to manage. I think of something and the next thing I know I can hear the words coming out of my mouth … the next bit is meant in some way, to explain … Read more
I promise I’ve tried. I really have! Please, please, please believe me when I say “I have tried to say nothing” … I have sat and read blogs and tweets about grade boundaries, higher versus foundation, early entry and so much more along these themes … you will have noticed I’ve said nothing. Not a word! I’m sat … 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
I’m looking at getting my classroom displays sorted and I came across the PowerPoint put together with letters of the alphabet – each with maths words starting with each letter (not sure who put it together but its fab! so Thank You! and if it was you can you let me know so I can … Read more
Back in May I wrote a blog post and shared the “Maths pages” for the student planner that we had put together for the school that myself and Seager are moving to (here is the post) and yesterday we went into the new place and I managed to snaffle a copy of the finished product (to my new gaffer: I … Read more
Two things. One of which is a hint if you mark using Epen (if you don’t know what that is, you can assume that you aren’t using it!), and the second is an observation. (1) If you press CTRL ALT and the “left arrow key” you can rotate your screen and then pop your laptop on … Read more
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
In my adult working life of a little over 22 years (I had part-time bar/waitressing jobs whilst at school/university but am not including those!) I have had 5 jobs and so have been through leaving jobs four times. The first time was quite surreal as I’d already started out in the corporate world whilst we still … Read more
Last week my two year 11 classes that I teach as part of my day job started their exams, and so our lessons are very much hit and miss in terms of whether there will be 32 of them or 2 (there was only 2, for one of my lessons today). The entire year group are now following a revision … Read more
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