This year Challenge is one of our main areas of focus in terms of Teaching and Learning. It is something we have really embraced in MFL, in fact, we were planning new schemes of work for Key Stage Three before the focus was even announced. […]
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while now. When the MFLTwitterati Podcast started earlier on this year I really enjoyed listening to it and it opened up a world that I hadn’t really delved into. Education podcasts – there are way more around […]
I’ll be honest, it’s a fact I’ve never tried to hide, I didn’t think teaching was necessarily going to be for me. I started my School Direct course with the intention of training, doing my NQT and then re-evaluating, knowing I’d have QTS if I […]
I was very pleased to be contacted by Oxford University Press last month to be asked to write a couple of pieces for them. They can be found at the following links:
More than anything else, my main takeaway from ResearchEd Rugby was that those of us speaking on the MFL strand (from the sessions that I attended at least) agreed on more than we differed. Whilst one of the reasons these events are so great is […]
I like to think I’ve maintained a pretty decent work-life balance in recent years. Planning and marking, by and large, stays at school and only bigger jobs like making assessments and working on schemes of work tend to come home during the holidays. This isn’t […]
The launch day for the first full Chartered Teacher cohort, the weekend following our final deadline, seems like a very appropriate day to be writing a post reflecting on the last fourteen months. The realisation that it’s all over only really hit this morning when […]
Recently I wrote about my work with retrieval practice, how it was going and what I was going to need to change. I mentioned some names of other teachers whose ideas I have seen on Twitter and Facebook and that I planned to integrate those […]
What I’ve tried, what I’ve learned and what comes next. Over the last half term or so I have been experimenting with retrieval practice and my KS3 and year 10 classes. The writing assessments that many of them completed before Christmas were disappointing because it […]
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend a two day conference with the Learning Scientists in Bedford, organised by Stuart Lock and Advantage Schools. It was a fantastic couple of days and I’ve taken loads away from it. I’ve just been […]
