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GCSE Trigonometry Revision
On arriving back at school after Easter I got my Y11s to write down, on a cue card, all the topics that they still felt they needed to go over or wanted to revise in class.It was the perfect time to do...
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GCSE Data Handling Revision
It's half term, which means I'll be heading to school on Wednesday to do a revision session with my Y11 classes, well those who have been 'invited' in; we've picked those students who still need a bit...
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Y2 Problem Solving Day 2015
Last week, on Wednesday, I hosted my school's Y2 Problem Solving Day event for 7 of our local primary schools. In all we had around 40 students from our primaries in for a carousel of Mathematical...
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Intro to Indices (Starter task/ideau)
After the May half term we set our Y9s according to Edexcel's 'Baseline Tests' for their new 1-9 GCSE Spec. Since then we have started teaching them through the Edexcel new 2 year GCSE course. The...
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Simplifying Surds Task/Resource
A couple of weeks ago I was teaching Surds to my Y9 class (doing the new Edexcel 1-9 GCSE Spec). I was looking for a resource to use with them, having covered simplifying surds. I looked on the TES and...
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#mathsconf4
#mathsconf4 took place on Saturday 20th June in London and I was lucky enough to attend my second #mathsconf having been to the previous one in Birmingham. Check out my previous blog post on...
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New School Year, New Role, New Classroom
As one school year ends the preparation for the next is in full swing! As of September I will be Head of Mathematics at my school and have moved into a different room in a more central location within...
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Venturing into the Office/Corridor
Having completed setting up my new classroom I decided to then venture into the office attached to my room and then the corridors where our department resides. First, a few final touches to my room...
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iDoceo
2014-15 was the first school year where I've used 'iDoceo' instead of the traditional teacher's planner. It is brilliant and worth every penny of the £7.99 for the app. There are so many benefits to...
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Reusable Notebooks
With the new school year approaching I'm looking forward to using the new piece of kit (stationary) that we've added to our teaching arsenal.At the end of the last school year, Neil from...
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just a teacher, trying to be better
In the early hours of this year's 'GCSE results day' I found myself awake, unable to sleep, in anticipation of today's revelations. Now, this is not just down to the anxiety of finding out how my...
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New Y11 Display - Key Info/QOTW
Last week I put up a 'new' display in our corridor. I say 'new' as the display has been up since the start of the school year...we just hadn't written anything on it until recently.So, I found some...
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Teaching Trigonometry
Before the end of Term 1, I attended the #Christmaths event that @mathsjem organised up in London. Unfortunately, I was a bit late getting there and so missed a few of the presentations, but did manage...
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Numeracy Ninjas
Massively inspired by this tweet by Jon O'Neil (@jonsmcest)https://twitter.com/jonsmcest/status/690648802240434176?lang=en-gbI have been putting up our very own Numeracy Ninjas Display this week.If you...
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Y6 Problem Solving Day 2016
On Tuesday I hosted our school's annual Y6 Problem Solving Day, read more about the previous Y6 problem solving days I have run here. We had 5 of our local feeder schools join us for a morning of...
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Open Evening
Open Evening is always a busy night on the school's calendar and this year was no exception. We had an extremely good turnout this year and the buzz around the school was great. We had lots of our...
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#MathsMeet (20th October 2016)
UpdatedI have been fortunate enough to attend a number of TeachMeet events over the past few years and have benefitted greatly from the presentations and discussion had at them.Whilst completing my NQT...
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A week ago I hosted a Teach Meet with a Mathematics focus at my school. The event went really well and we had some great presentations that were given on the day. @Mahoney_Maths has already written a...
View ArticleInterventions, Interventions!
It's been a while since my last post, way back in October after the #MathsMeet I organised. A lot has been going on since, at school; focused on Y11 interventions, hence the title to this post.I...
View ArticleBeing HOD/HOF
My time as Head of Mathematics has come to an end. As a result of doing the role for a couple of years I'm also moving schools for September. A lot has happened over the past few years, which I will...
View ArticleGoals #MTBoS
Having not blogged for ages I saw @jreulbach's tweet announcing the return of 'Sunday Funday', a weekly blog prompt for Maths Teachers (mainly in the US), and this was the inspiration I needed to get...
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New School, New Classroom 2017-18!
I had the excitement of going into my new school this week to 'do up' my new classroom and move all of my resources in! I spent the day there redoing the display boards and generally clearing out the...
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New Display - corbettmaths.com Revision Cards
If you've read my 'New School, New Classroom 2017-18' post then you will have seen I have one main new display this year...my corbettmaths.comRevision Cards display. I was very lucky to meet Mr Corbett...
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First Day #MTBoS
This week's blog prompt from the #MTBoS was about the first day of the school year. I'm slightly late writing/posting mine as I've only just returned from the Lake District with my little family! To...
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Lego QR Code v2.0
A while back I blogged about my Lego QR Code here.The QR code has very much, up until today, remained at the side of my classroom(s) kind of propped up against something as I never found a reliable way...
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