Just a quickie post and I’m intending on posting a “proper” post this evening but it’s been a truly mental couple of days. Friday was an early start as I travelled to Manchester as part of my day job as a teacher for a “getting ready to teach the new GCSE” training event **waves to … Read more
This week, as a department we did a bit of a “book look” and this opened up a discussion about presentation and layout of books within Maths. Whilst we’re all adhering to the school marking policies and doing all that we should – it was obvious that there are some variations in terms of presentation across the … Read more
Just a “quickie” to let you all know so that it is in the public domain that I have this week asked for copies of any responses from Ofqual to letters from any of the Maths subject associations dated between June last year and April this year under the Freedom of Information Act. 16 days … 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
Yesterday was another one of the maths conferences run by La Salle education and it was a great event – loads of enthusiastic fellow teachers discussing and sharing ideas. It’s great to meet up with people from twitter and meet with friends … old and new (as always with these things I’m sad not to have … Read more
Occasionally I use this blog in rather a self-indulgent way and I suppose this is going to be one of those times but do read on as I’m hoping to convey an important message too. This week has been a tough one for various reasons but Friday I arrived at school and I found some … Read more
Up front I’m not getting into a discussion about “gaming” because I genuinely don’t believe that looking at past papers and trying to pick out topics is anything that any student wouldn’t be doing themselves .. it is certainly what I would do if I was sitting an exam! The rationale is that I want … Read more
Whenever I meet people that read this blog, one of the first things most people will say is that they think I’m brave saying the things I do (or words to that effect!) and they go onto say that sometimes I write about the things they wish they could say in public (it didn’t start … Read more
I wish Ofqual/DFE would decide how they are going to publish updates, as it really is getting tedious hunting down information about the whole accreditation process. Just don’t be thinking it’ll make me give up because I am a stubborn hard-nosed sod! I am aware that there are more letters of complaints/with comments on winging … Read more
(or setting the scene for Part 2) Let me say at the outset that I genuinely hope that the Maths Hubs initiative works. I hope it works because I believe that since the loss of the support from local authorities in lots of areas we have been left with a massive gap (even if you … Read more
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