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This blog has charted an interesting period in my teaching life.  When I first started blogging here, it was as a classroom teacher looking for an echo chamber to reflect and develop my practice.  Then I became a Head of Year and … Continue reading →

New custom flow chart on the wall to guide students around an activity.

Through the classroom On Tuesday night I was asked by our Head to do a quick and engaging starter for our staff directed time. I came up with ‘Through the classroom’. Utilizing my wasted youth practicing Loyd Grossman impressions and … Continue reading →

Last night we had a twilight professional development session at work and as part of that we were put into Action Research groups.  After a bit of soul searching I’ve come up with the things I really want to focus … Continue reading →

This is it!  I promise.  As some of my colleagues have pointed out, I’ve been rather acronym obsessed recently, but I think I’ve finally nailed it and I’m going to stick with ACT.   It’s taken me a long time … Continue reading →

I’ve been using CUE 1234, (Content, Understanding, Evaluation) for several months now with my students as an assessment tool.  Now I’m starting to wonder whether I should change it slightly?  My main issue is that there is a definite overlap … Continue reading →

Today has been a great day… an inspiring day in fact.  That it has been so has been all the more unusual for the fact I am currently snowed under with work and busy dealing with multiple incidents in my … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
I’m sure I’ve moaned about this before, but the Daily Mail often annoys me with its hypocrisy about school discipline. It seems to run two, contradictory, types of stories on school discipline. The…

My blog has been languishing from inattention since November, a situation I am desperate to remedy. At first I decided the main problem was my work-load, trying to keep on top everything wasn’t leaving me enough time for thinking about … Continue reading →

As you may know, I’ve been utilising my own system of assessment this year, (whilst of course retaining levels for whole school tracking) and I’ve been quite pleased with the result. CUE -Content Understanding Evaluation- is a condensed version of … Continue reading →