Seriously

Gobsmacked. That is the only word I can use to describe the announcement today that Justine Greening made via a letter to the Education Select Committee. (BTW If any of the committee are reading this I suggest you clear the diary in Autumn because I suspect you will be opening an enquiry into this Summers GCSE … Read more

Common Questions – New 9-1 GCSE

I’m just gonna say it … I think I need to get a life! I’ve been doing some work following the letter I’ve had from Ofqual in response to my own letter to them where I raised the matter of how comparability across tiers was being ensured. You can see from the below extract Ofqual … Read more

Me? Negative?

This isn’t the blog post I wanted to write so I’ll have to come back later … sorry! For the first time in three years of blogging and tweeting have I doubted myself. After an episode on twitter I’ve spent the last 15 hours wondering if my chronicling of the accreditation process is being seen … Read more

Why I turned up for Saturday School?

The twitter conversation in the PREVIOUS POST got me thinking and my curiosity was sparked when a colleague tweeted saying that, today was his first time of doing Saturday revision in 18 years. He sent me the below and I offer it as a counter argument as to why some people are doing extra stuff for their … Read more

To Infinity & Beyond

Today there were some tweets about how many teachers are doing extra revision sessions so @tessmaths started doing a bit of a “straw poll” and it would appear that the vast majority of tweachers who replied (note that the sample will more than likely have been biased) were doing sessions this weekend. The views on … Read more

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