Author Archives: Matt

So I got a job this morning…yay! Then after my interview, straight back to school to teach year 8 this afternoon. It’s a top set, but probably my least favorite set… With intelligence seems to come arrogance…hmm Started off well, … Continue reading →

Had two of my year 8 sets the Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday I was observed by my uni tutor, and I was hoping for the class to have turned into some kind of angelic collective since two weeks ago… no … Continue reading →

Taught first lesson in 7.6 the last two afternoons. Interesting. Was doing traffic lights, starting with getting one set working, then moving on to the bridge lights in flowol. No-one got that far on monday, they were all struggling with just getting … Continue reading →

Another department meeting. Minutes in folder again. Mainly discussed moderation of levels, key skills and motivating year 9′s to increase uptake of GCSE. Also KS3 tests.

Taught the bottom set year 9, the second lesson on KS3 test familiarisation. Mentor wasn’t in the class, so was just me and an LSA today. Hard work!! It was red-nose day, two of the pupils from the class had … Continue reading →

It’s reports time, so spent quite a while in the last few days getting my head around ks3 levelling for the various classes i’ve taught. It’s a lot easier to do after you’ve seen someone else do it, and what … Continue reading →

Had a bit of a weird year 8 lesson today. Due to a variety of factors, they hadn’t managed to finish the previous unit of work in the last lesson as planned, but they didn’t have enough left to fill … Continue reading →

Getting coursework out of year 10 children is virtually impossible. Can’t quite understand why teachers want to move towards vocational courses, it’s hard enough getting a limited amount of coursework out of them, even with lots of intermediate deadlines, phoning … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of discussinon recently about what we’re doing next with the year 8. We’re just finishing off the public information systems unit. Previously they’ve done a year 8 project, either focussing on a charity rock concert or … Continue reading →

Taught a familiarisation lesson to year 9 for ks3 test today. Quite interesting looking at who finds it easy/hard etc. Class is a topset and the boys really enjoy the challenge of the test – obviously as it’s familiarisation no … Continue reading →