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[Dominic @dominic_mcg]

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…

[And B 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇸 @AndJBa5]

@crhmfl Our highers were much lower than expected. We also had a 90 task with 0/10 for content and 6/6 for quality! It's perfect. We've done clerical remark - no change, a remark- no change! They can't have read it. Now it's having remark number 2....

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Has anyone had any AQA GCSE writing scripts back? We are seeing what feels like much harsher marking than what we're used to from previous years. Not really sure what to make of it..

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[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Early train to London for #rEd24 today! Looking forward to sessions on curriculum and assessment design, attention and ratio!

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

I've only ever worked in a school that starts on textbook modules 1-3 in y9, so never experienced what a 2-year GCSE looks like. Has always seemed that it would be v hard to fit everything in? But also feel like students would benefit from a proper third year of a KS3 curriculum?

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Would love to hear people's thoughts about their MFL KS4 curriculum (pre new-GCSE). If you've largely followed a textbook, have you done that over 2 years or 3 years? Do you find you have enough time? What changes have you made? Have you moved away from a textbook entirely?

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Would love to hear people's thoughts about their MFL KS4 curriculum (pre new-GCSE). If you've largely followed a textbook, have you done that over 2 years or 3 years? Do you find you have enough time? What changes have you made? Have you moved away from a textbook entirely?

[Mr E 🇬🇧 @VEverettmfl]

Wow! This is seriously bad. A grade 7 candidate in AQA French Listening typically got less than 50%.
And then the boundaries for grades 3 to 7 are so squished together.
For a 3 it's LESS than an actual mark. 18/60 = the entire band, having been scaled from out of 50.

[Amy Forrester @amymayforrester]

If there’s one plea I could make ahead of GCSE results day tomorrow, it’s in the way the media and other commentators talk about GCSE grades.
Grades 1-3 are not fails. Us or Xs are. Anyone with a 1-3 HAS GOT A GCSE. And for some of those kiddos, a 1 or a 2 or 3 can be a phenomenal result that they deserve to be proud of. Let’s be a bit more responsible in our language.

[Mr E 🇬🇧 @VEverettmfl]

How P8 scores end up not working properly for French, Spanish and German.
https://t.co/zGmvcXLhBt
It's almost as if they want to harm these subjects in as many ways as possible.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

I thought I would fact check this bizarre article from this weekend's Observer (not, as people keep saying, the @guardian, which normally is much better for quality education coverage). It's almost easier to find out what is true, than to deal with all the inaccuracies. 🧵

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

And any tips for navigating this for GCSE classes? Teaching both, and being stronger in French, I find myself thinking that my Spanish students need to be able to say the same things as my French students. Do they? And if so, how do you get your Spanish classes there?

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Do GCSE mark schemes take into account how much harder it is to hit a range of tenses in French than it is in Spanish?

French: basic verbs like play/live/travel/work/watch/study, are all -er. There aren't many -ir/-re verbs that are really essential for GCSE w/s (1)

[CHMFL @crhmfl]

Does the mark scheme account for this? Should I look more favourably on and mark higher a Spanish student saying “a mi amigo le gustan las ciencias” than I would a French student saying “mon ami aime les SVT”? Does this count as a more complex structure in Spanish? (4)

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

A little story about behaviour, relationships, expectations and consequences:

A while back, I taught a really tough Year 11 class. There weren't many of them in the room. Their attendance was sporadic. They hated science, and weren't doing very well.

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[Hannah Kettle Maths @hkettlemaths]

I split 28 GCSE Maths Papers into odd and even numbers, filmed a tutorial to go through each half paper and listed the topics covered on the front with Sparx Codes. Makes a perfect 45 min weekly homework / revision lesson for Y10 / Y11. I also do it live on TikTok each Thurs 7pm.

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

16/ Meta-analysis of 47 studies on the relationship between motivation and achievement in school

→ suggests that results tend to boost motivation more than motivation boosts results

https://t.co/iFHxjSRbu1