Last November, I blogged on the challenges we face when it comes to the limited vocabulary among our pupils. I wrote about how this may impact on reading ability and …

Today, I posted this picture on Twitter: It was taken at an AQA subject hub. Like everybody else at the hub meeting, I was reassured. Yes! I thought. My students …

In the last two weeks, I have sat two mock exams alongside Y11. I sat one in the gym with the year-group and the second just with my own class, for …

A blog for #IWD. Punch-line at the end. Here are some encounters or interactions I have had all in the last week. They’re not related to education. They’re just bits and …

I first visited Monks Park School in 1989. I was 11 years old and looking around secondary schools with my mum and dad. It was freezing cold and exactly like …

This is about the use of mnemonics for GCSE revision. I teach English, so this blog post will be framed by my subject area, but it applies to revision across …

Halfway through a PiXL session on Friday, I checked my work emails. I was concentrating (honest!) but I always seem to have a little corner of my mind checking in …

I started writing this at the start of December and a few Tweets on the matter have surfaced again, so I’ve pushed ahead to publish. This is about the fact …

This is a picture of the gym at my school, right at the end of a mock examination. I took this picture to help my Y11 students with learning quotations. …

I am going to write a series of posts, each one based on a different question in this exam. Each post will start with this introduction (you’re not going mad …