This is the best blog I've read in a long time. Fantastic, terrifying and highly prescient. An absolute must read from @joel120193
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Homegrown tomatoes taste great and are ideal for people who want to eat five hundred of them in a week in early September and none at all for the rest of the year.
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Looking at A level grade boundaries.
To get an A Star grade in French (AQA), you must average 90%. The highest of any subject.
To get an E grade, 42%. Imagine getting a U with 41%.
In Chemistry, 20% is an E. 42% is a C. #ResultsDay2025
No wonder students are not taking MFL…
A few years ago an explicit phonics lesson looked weird to people. Now it is accepted by most that this is what good phonics looks like. It’s not inconceivable that this revelation could extend to the teaching of all new and foundational skills - including much of the math block.
3.1 Embrace Cognitive Similarity
How all students learn is more similar than it is different. Our best bet for supporting mainstream students with SEND is to strengthen universal provision built around common cognitive architecture (rather than focussing on individual deficits).
I confiscated this phone at the start of the day.
Compliant student- handed it over, no issues, I said I would return at the end of the day.
Do you know how many times it pinged/vibrated in my office?
Over 78 times.
Please don't tell me they are not a distraction.
@tombennett71 For me, the issue that needs to be addressed is, given the teachers we have, what kind of professional development will be of most benefit to students? From the research that I've seen, PD addressing pedagogy is likely to have a greater impact than PD addressing subject knowledge