Revision and Research

This post  is really a thank you to Mr. John Tomsett (@JohnTomsett) for recognizing and encouraging others to engage with research.  I don't have much time to read blog posts anymore. I'm not sure I ever did but even less now I have made a conscious effort to ensure life comes before work and tend to book up …

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World Book Day 2015

World Book Day has been and gone again. We had a great time and hopefully some of these ideas will prove helpful in the future for both our school and others! As always, the main focus was the dressing up (by staff) and ensuring we could enjoy a chuckle with our students whilst discussing our …

There are far far better things ahead…

Self indulgent and not particularly useful- maybe. Necessary for all to do - probably. I went on a rather wintery walk today; I took a photo of a beautiful reflection of a tree in the Itchen's chilly waters highlighted only briefly by the burnt orange of the setting sun. The sunlight lingered long enough for me to take the photograph and as the reflection began to dissipate in …

Teaching and Learning Advent Calendar

As part of our Teaching and Learning Team, My colleague @misslollyhill and I were assigned to create a T&L advent calendar. This was @siancarter1's and our T&L team's idea and we decided to make both a physical and electronic calendar. This is what our tree looked like to start with: Every day, we will be …

A Rounded Approach to Progress

This post is to say a big thank you to @Laura_suths for sharing and caring and to explain some of the things I have done to try and create a rounded approach to accelerating and improving progress for lower ability students. I teach a group of very lovely students - whose ability is currently lower than …

Teaching and Learning Takeover ebook and 2014!

Why am I writing this now you ask? Well because it's nearing TLT2014 I answer... Teaching and Learning Takeover (TLT) is the title of a teaching and learning conference which took place on the South coast in October 2013. It was free to attend and open to around 180 teachers - the entire day was held at the University of Southampton. …

Challenging times

The title of this post may sound rather negative but it really isn't negative at all. I've toyed with the idea of deleting the blog because frankly I've no idea how people have time to write all the time and I certainly don't! So instead of beginning to fall in to the trap of continual moaning (as …

Nurture 2013-2014

Apparently these posts are all the rage and I think they're a good way to reflect on the year and make some promises for next year. Fingers crossed I stick to them. 13 successes: 1. Running - I'm not a runner; certainly not built like one but this year I signed up to the 10 …

Just Keep Swimming Tips

It's been a while since I've written a post and that is largely due to the fact I haven't had a clue what to write about. As I faff my way in to the new academic year I've been asked by a number of people to give both formal and informal advice about how newly …

Engaging with reflection at Teachmeet Clevedon

I haven't posted anything on my blog for well over a month. Sincerely because I've not had a great deal worth writing about nor felt there was much in my current teaching worth reflecting on. Although perhaps that is unfair to me and my classes as I often believe the majority of our work should …