Let’s just say that today was an awful day and not one I want to repeat. I’m not going into detail but I’ve come home and feel immensely proud of our students and am proud to be part of such a professional and compassionate teaching staff. Lets just leave it at that. Anyway, observation was cancelled and … Read more
It’s Maths Week on TES, and they are having regular Q&As with ministers – the one earlier this week with Liz Truss, (its just my opinion, so don’t shoot me!) didn’t answer any of the big questions. It felt a little hollow and a bit like going through the motions to tick a box about … Read more
The first thing I did as I just walked into the door this evening after a parish council meeting is check out the TES live chat with Liz Truss. I am starting to wonder if its me, and maybe I’m a little bit dim. Surely I’m not the only person that thinks the following just doesn’t add … Read more
This is a flying by the seat of my pants post! I am off to fulfil my duties and about to put on my “Councillor Muldowney hat” on for my local parish council this evening, but couldn’t ignore the fact that Liz Truss is answering questions on the TES site this evening. I have tried … Read more
I’ve now spent an hour looking for a post I was sure I’d written and still cant find it. I am almost positive I’ve written it – the good thing is that I have rediscovered the activity and am going to use it next week with year 11. Yay!! Less planning tomorrow, which is a … 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
In the spirit of sharing and making this truly a collaborative project I promised I’d post an update so here it is: We went through the KS3 and KS4 programmes of study and produced a sort of running order. If you’re interested I’ve attached the spread sheet (here) and there is a tab called “Version for comments” … 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
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
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