Back in February I was chasing down the interactive transition matrices. After a fruitless email exchange it was met with the rather disappointing response from Raiseonlne. Dear Kristian, Thank you for your email. I am sorry to say that the …
It is easy, for instance, to mistake commitment for accomplishment and enthusiasm for excellence. They are not the same. – Sir Micheal Wilshaw My experience of the last two Ofsted inspections has been largely positive. The inspection teams were open, …
Just a revision idea borrow from the staff at Kings Langley secondary School. Take the key subjects and break them down into ten simple revision topics. The idea is to then print them out and send to parents and carers …
There are a handful of blogs posts, from established school leaders and interested parties reviewing curriculum planning at the moment, here and here. It is that time of year. Options evening are being scheduled, Assistant and Deputy Headteachers / Principals are …
With just six reporting cycles under my belt at The Wellington Academy, this term saw the release of Progress Reports to all seven year groups, within days of the term coming to end. Reflecting back over this process, I hoped might just …
Given it is exam season is approaching and back channel conversations will no doubt seen revisit the issue of comparable outcomes and comparable performance, I thought that I would refresh my think and understanding. I am sure it will be …
At the back end of January 2011 I was reading the research findings by Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue. In a nutshell, Karpicke’s research shows that practising retrieval is an even more effective strategy than …
Google has all kinds of clever search commands that save you time and I am often surprised that our staff and students do not know about them; weather forecasts, time zones, definitions, sports results, calculations, drive times, file types. Honing …
