Raising the Awareness and Use of Numeracy Across the Curriculum
I mentioned in my #nurture1314 review post that I would write a blog post about the progress I had made with Numeracy Across the Curriculum. I have been focusing on raising the awareness, and use, of...
View ArticleiPad Apps
I was very lucky a couple of months back to have received an iPad for my 30th birthday. Now, I'm not 30 until September the 12th, but having an awesome mother always comes in handy when there's...
View ArticleSummer #blogsync - My Life in Books
#blogsync is back this Summer inspired by Tom Sherrington's (@headguruteacher)Â blog post. I felt that I could add a little to the topic and so here is my life in books (so far)...(click here for all of...
View Article#poundlandpedagogy - ready for the new school year
If you're anything like me, a lot of the Summer holidays are spent seeking out bargains for the new school year. Whenever I'm out and about I can't help but think of what I might need in my classroom...
View ArticleComic Life
Earlier this month I blogged about the iPad apps I was intending to use in the new school year. One of those apps that I was yet to download was 'Comic Life' - an app that allows you to create your own...
View ArticleConstructions resources using 'Comic Life'
If you've read my previous blog post on 'Comic Life' you will have seen my 1st attempt at creating a 'comic' using the app. I mentioned in that post that I intended to create some constructions...
View ArticleA Frenzy of Marking: 'Progress Over Time'
The first half term of the school year has seen us embark on a newer emphasis on 'progress over time' and a need for students' exercise books to be glistening with not only marked work, but 'learning...
View ArticleA Very Mathsy Xmas
Well the countdown to Christmas is here and that calls for a few Christmaths activities in the last few weeks of the term...The first of these is my 'A Very Mathsy Xmas' display, which is basically a...
View ArticleNew Year...New Displays
Happy New Year everyone! I know, I know...I'm a little late. I keep meaning to blog far more than I find the time for these days, but I will endeavour to increase the amount of posts this year,...
View ArticleTakeaway Homework 2015
If you are unfamiliar with my 'takeaway homework' (twenty seven) then please read these (http://goo.gl/s6YAln) & (http://goo.gl/eAFUie) posts before reading on. Thanks :)Last term I decided to...
View ArticleValentine's Day Mathematics Activities
Yesterday, on the eve of Valentine's Day, I used one of my recently created resources with a few of my classes to celebrate Valentine's Day. Any excuse to run a themed lesson and I'm happy! With my Y7,...
View ArticleThe Never Ending Notebook
Earlier this school year the magicwhiteboard.co.uk brought out their new A5 and A4 'Magic Notebook'. I've been using mine since then and they're brilliant!Basically, they are 40/60 page reusable...
View Article2015...the answers! [Spoiler Alert]
Following my previous post this year on my new displays (see here), my students have now finished the 2 0 1 5 challenge! In fact, they finished it about a month a go - I've only just got round to doing...
View ArticleMathematical Plenary Sticks
One of the new resources I have created recently (see them all here) is my 'Mathematical Plenary Sticks'.The resource is a pdf document with over 100 plenary questions/tasks for Mathematics lessons....
View ArticleMathematics Assemblies
At the end of the last school year our PSHE coordinator sent an e-mail round to our department asking if any of us would be interested in delivering a Mathematics assembly to all year groups. Having...
View ArticleY10 FMSP Maths Feast at the University of Surrey...AKA Maths Trip!!
Earlier this half term I was delighted to take 8 of our Y10 students to the University of Surrey for the FMSP's Year 10 'Maths Feast'; a day of challenging activities for students to complete whilst...
View ArticleIt's 'Revision Season' again, which means...Revision Cards!!
As I write this post we are but 80 days away from the 1st (Edexcel Linear) GCSE Mathematics exam! 'Revision Season' is therefore well underway and when students aren't out doing examinations for other...
View ArticlePi Day and the National Mathematics Teacher Conference III
3/14/15 9:26:53Pi Day!Aston UniversityLa Salle Education's 3rd National Mathematics Teacher ConferenceThis was the first of @LaSalleEd's Mathematics Teacher Conferences I had been to and it was a...
View ArticleGCSE 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...
View ArticleGCSE 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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