At the most recent Maths Conference in London, I spent one session sitting at a table with three NQTs, and was asked by one of them what my “top tips” were for surviving their NQT year. For a bit of context, I’ve now been teaching for six years if you include my GTP year, which …
The importance of trust Read More »
It’s been a while since I last did a Pick of Twitter, which is personally quite annoying because it’s my only way of chronicling all the good stuff I see on there – I’m going to try and get back into the habit on Sundays from now on! @mjfenton: A lovely list of quotes from teachers explaining …
Pick of Twitter 26/07/15 Read More »
I decided that a resource post was long overdue for the #summerblogchallenge, so I thought I’d post one of my favourite lessons. I put this together after discovering the fantastic Gapminder website a couple of years ago, and it’s designed to provide a nice real-life link for exponential growth.This lesson looks at two different scenarios. It starts with …
Exponential growth and the Chessboard Problem Read More »
It seems that we all do a bit of reflection at the end of the year. For me, my targets are a bit like New Year’s resolutions – I start off well, but most things have fallen by the wayside by October half term. This year, I vowed to keep my room tidy and organise …
Looking back, looking forward Read More »
Today’s post is a blog about blogging – does that make it a meta-blog? I’ll start with my fiance’s reaction when I told him about the #summerblogchallenge – he was convinced that there was no way I could write 51 meaningful blog posts, and was in danger of just spamming my Twitter feed with rubbish – hence …
Quantity, not quality? Read More »
…With jam in! Badumdum-tshh… Not sure if that really works, but I enjoyed my first Maths Jam so much last night that I thought it would make a great topic for my SBPC post today. If you don’t know about Maths Jam (I didn’t until Beth (@MissBLilley) invited me along at the last maths conference), it’s a …
How does Bob Marley like his maths? Read More »
Just a quick post today with a few useful goodies for the new Maths GCSE – these are all links I’ve found useful in planning and resourcing our schemes of work. From the exam boards: DfE – Subject content and assessment objectives: Learning outcomes and content coverage for the new GCSE from the DfE. GCSE …
Planning for GCSE 2015 Read More »
Bit of a random topic for my third SBPC, but bear with me. Over the weekend, my fiance dragged me to watch Jurassic World; I wasn’t keen, as I missed the Jurassic Park hype when I was younger, and don’t really enjoy action films. Since watching Jurassic World, we went back and watched three episodes …
Logarithmic thinking, evolution and dinosaurs Read More »
I’ve spent a large chunk of my time over the last 18 months writing a scheme of work for Key Stage 3. I wrote a blog in June about our experiences of a year of mastery teaching and it’s a theme I’ll come back to in later posts over the summer, as the endless (M)astery debate is getting …
Lessons learned – writing a scheme of work Read More »
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’ve had very little time lately to work on my website and write blog posts; it’s a shame because I love doing both. Now that the seven-week summer holiday has arrived (I’m still not sure where that extra week has come from), and inspired by Dr Bennison’s “blog post …
51 Days of Summer, the blogpost challenge and a bit of self-assessment Read More »