Year: 2013
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The truth about Ofsted ‘Outstanding’
We’ve just had Ofsted in and I was lucky enough to be awarded the ‘Outstanding’ badge after my lesson was observed for around 30 minutes. It was a middle set Year 11 group who I had taught three lessons to previously and hadn’t been involved with when they were Year 10. They’re a group with…
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Where are the Physics teachers?
Where are the Physics teachers? It’s a pertinent question and one that, through current experience, is tremendously worrying. I work in a fantastic school with an exceptional Physics department. We have 70 students across A-level; three sets of AS and two sets of A2. Myself and my colleague, who is leaving, are the only two…
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Student Response to Mechanics
Wandering home I was crossing the road, and a car approached reasonably fast. So I wrote a quick mechanics question and fired it out to my Year 12s (during the holidays!) The e-mail: “Hello! Yes, I’m e-mailing you over the holidays. Yes, it’s because I had a geeky moment. So basically, I was crossing the…
Cup of Teaching 