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Displays for Learning
This week I was lucky enough to be able to visit one of the other local secondary schools to my school and take part in a NQT training morning. Part of the morning involved us taking a 'learning walk'...
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GCSE Revision...with Y9! (Relay)
Last month, during the Easter holidays, I saw a tweet from @Ms_Kmp with a link to an idea on her blog to make GCSE revision more fun.See her blog post here. Check out the rest of her blog too for some...
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Crazy Talk!
On Thursday 2nd May #ukedchat held its' second #TeachTweet - a take on the #TeachMeet phenomenon whereby Twitter users sign up to present a video of something they have used in their lessons etc. One...
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#TMSurrey
On Thursday 9th May I hosted #TMSurrey at Glyn School, Ewell, Surrey. It was a fantastic evening made possible by the people that attended and presented on the night. It was also only made possible due...
View ArticleTerm 3 of my NQT year - an insight for future NQTs/ITTs
It seems like ages since I last had some time to sit down and write any sort of blog post. In fact, it's been since the start of May that I've had this luxury when I blogged about organising and...
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Musical Chairs
Throughout the year I have experimented with many different seating layouts in my classroom, which I revelled having this year. Each of the different layouts had their own purposes depending on what I...
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ifaketext.com
A couple of months ago I came across the following website... www.ifaketext.com. The site allows you to create your own text messages.There are loads of ways you could use this site to create text...
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Bearings & Google Earth
In the 3rd term of this year I was due to teach Bearings to my set 5 year 8 classes. Now we had done a lot of work on drawing and measuring angles and so I wanted to try and find a way where they would...
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Deal or No Deal Revision - refined
A couple of years a go I (with the help of Miss Moore) created my 'Deal or no Deal' boxes that I have used in class when exam season hits.I first used the boxes back when I was a Cover Supervisor and...
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Balloons and #poundlandpedagogy
As part of my experimentation with #poundlandpedagogy I had bought some balloons to use in class. Now, last year, for one of my formally observed lessons on my GTP, I used balloons to hide 'clues' in...
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Paper Plates and #poundlandpedagogy
Thinking of how I was going to teach my set 5 year 10 class provided something of an ongoing headache throughout the year. I was constantly having to ask myself what would get them involved in the...
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Probability Lesson & NQT Final Assessment
For my official, and final, NQT observation/assessment I was told that I would be observed on May 10th and that my NQT assessor could come into any of my 4 lessons I had on that day. This meant that I...
View ArticleHow to Learn Math - Introduction (Session 1)
Having seen a few things floating around twitter and on the TES Mathematics community blog (http://community.tes.co.uk/tes_mathematics/b/weblog/default.aspx) I have enrolled today on Jo Boaler's 'How...
View ArticleHow to Learn Math (Sessions 2 & 3)
For my blog post on session 1 of this free online course by @joboaler click here.Session 2 of the 'How to Learn Math' course I'm currently working my way through was called 'Maths and Mindset' and...
View ArticleHow to Learn Math (Session 4)
To see my reflections on session 1, and sessions 2 and 3 click on the links below...session 1 - http://goo.gl/zGhmxDsessions 2 & 3 - http://goo.gl/2pjIQRI was looking forward to session 4 ever...
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Picture Beads
Inspired by a question I was posed in Jo Boaler's (@joboaler) 'How to Learn Math' free online course [see http://class.stanford.edu] I have been getting creative with 'picture beads'!Here's the...
View ArticleHow to Learn Math (Session 5)
To see my previous posts, reflecting on sessions 1-4, click on the below links...Session 1: http://goo.gl/zGhmxDSession 2-3: http://goo.gl/2pjIQRSession 4: http://goo.gl/w61q9oSession 5 of How to Learn...
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180!
Back in June I came across the following resource on the TES...http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Darts-Project-number-and-geometry-project-6323154/The resource is a Darts project that gets...
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Scrabble Tiles: The Best Literacy/Numeracy Activity?
I often 'favourite' a lot of tweets I see on my Twitter feed and later revisit them. A lot of the tweets I favourite are just simply pictures to inspire me, have quotes on that I can use or can be put...
View ArticleMy 'go to' websites and resources
In preparation for starting the new school year I've been busy going through my 'favourites' tab on my Internet Explorer browser. I thought this would be the ideal time (having deleted a lot of old...
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