Whatever happened to December? January for that matter? Sadly, I missed out a posting for our fourth unit, Angles and 2D Shapes. I also included an opportunity for “open class learning.” That is, using the feedback from the practice papers, an …
The unit practice paper certainly presented the pupils with a serious challenge. Many of the pupils found understanding / decoding the actual question more difficult then maths required to solve it. As their teacher, I learnt that “decoding questions” is a skill …
A new term, a new unit – expressions and formulae. What am I expecting the students to know already? What knowledge will I be checking for in the first couple of lessons. Students should already know how to… Use basic algebraic …
It has been a challenging week for Y8z5. A new unit, Area, perimeter and measures, some difficult tasks and despite the uphill battle, the class are growing in confidence, even if the successes have been far and few between. We are undeterred, we …
Week three was a planned blur. Week four has provided a number of break throughs’ for a number of individual pupils and for our mentally as a class. Twenty lessons in, I continue to reinforce The Academy’s RESPECT Ethos and our high …
Another positive week in class with Y8z5 this week and very positive feedback from the teacher that meet the class on Wednesday (as was in London attending a professional commitment). Thank you. The key message from class this week is the need …
