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Nic - mathematician, musician, mother, very poor runner. All views my own.

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@DCGSVisits @AW24 Thank you so much to the staff for organising and giving up their time for an amazing week for Year 9. Hopefully they all get a decent rest over half term!

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@kyledevans @UndergroundMath I loved (and still love) Underground Maths. Use it all the time in my teaching and has some fantastic resources to stretch my top set Y11 as well. An absolute travesty when it lost funding, mind boggling.

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@robotmaths I haven't read any of them but have been recommended Responsive Teaching by others and I'd on my "to read" list!

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@anna_walsh83 @dylanwiliam @tombennett71 @oldandrewuk Agree completely. A big difference between starting with an existing lesson and thoughtfully adapting it to meet the needs of the learners, than just taking something off the shelf and blindly delivering it without any preparation. Sadly I have seen thr latter too often.

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@missradders Yes, it was very good (and I cannot stand Boris), and I am no fan of Liz Truss, but I do think it was a bit rough of the BBC to read it pretty much straight after Liz's, to really highlight that she is not an orator. Seemed a bit mean.

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@Ridermeister If you include independent consolidation, more than 4. Teacher set homework would be less.

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@Ridermeister I print out their photos from the system, passport photo size, laminate them, cut them up. I then use them for random cold calling at an appropriate time in lessons. Helps me put faces to names more quickly.

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@_MissWhiteMaths @MuirMaths @MathsImpact It has revolutionised marking...attaching one note pages to assignments etc. As long as students do the work on the allocated page and don't start renaming it or relocating it elsewhere in their One Note folder! I love never carrying stacks of books for marking!

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@MathsImpact We also set all homework as Assignments on Teams.

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@MathsImpact 100%. I teach via One Note and share all the lessons with the students. This year I plan to go completely paperless as thr year groups i will teach will all have devices. Hallelujah.

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@madamwaitt 38 first time, 37 the second. It was nice to have a couple of weeks to put my feet up and chill, although my second was a little early anyway. But this was before I became a teacher so I had more flexibility to choose.

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@ShawMaths @Trudgeteacher @missradders @midge_nyc @DagsMaths @mathsatschool @mathsjem Yes, been there. Had top Oxbridge maths kids doing FM and thr weakest kid in year who scraped an E in the same class. Essentially had to teach two different lessons whilst firefighting as well. Not ideal.

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@missradders @midge_nyc @DagsMaths @mathsatschool @mathsjem Agree, I like 10 to get a good discussion going but still lots of individual attention too. At my old school it could be up to 25 in an A Level class with very wide range of ability. Current school 10-12 is average, less in FM.

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@CantabKitty I am a sook. It huuuuuurt. But I have a retroverted uterus so things can be a bit more awkward. Smears are a bit rubbish too!

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@CantabKitty @iCaSHCambs Had a Mirena put in last week and it was excruciating; had to have a local anaesthetic to keep going. But fine now. No ultrasound though. That sounds like the deluxe option!

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@suedepom @ThainMike We had that too at my old school. Forced to choose from two or three activities such as yoga/mindfulness when I would much rather have gone for a run or had a free hour to actually sort stuff out (we were given NO downtime at all)

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@mathsaurus Six exactly. No more, no less!

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@Mona2730 @RoyalItgirl @AQA Suspect a lost paper or something. School on the case.

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@GarethMacG @missradders Oh yes the school is on it.

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@RoyalItgirl @AQA Student with nine grade 9s in my school was given 3 in Eng. Lang. Insane.