Assessment… Trying to get better with retention and retrieval practice 11 Mar 202111 Mar 2021 We are in the process of putting together a new curriculum. And with a new curriculum, comes new knowledge...potentially. Like many, as I think about new units, I also think…
Curriculum… Fostering pupil voice and their experience of texts 7 Mar 20217 Mar 2021 Over the lockdown period, I had the fortune to join a series of English and Media Centre webinars with Barbara Bleiman, who is an absolute legend in the English world. …
Curriculum… Revisiting old posts: Collaborative planning 1 Mar 20211 Mar 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN MAY 2017 Last year Kaz Armstrong, our KS3 Subject Lead and the English department collaborated to create a Key Stage Three curriculum that we felt would equip…
Curriculum Revisiting old posts: KS3 Curriculum 28 Feb 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN MAY 2018 So we began this process nearly two and a half years ago and we are finally getting to the point where we have a curriculum…
Curriculum Revisiting old posts: rebuilding the curriculum 28 Feb 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN FEBRUARY 2019 When I joined my last school, it was inadequate. Over three years, the staff worked relentlessly hard to move that judgement to the good judgement…
Curriculum Revisiting old posts: Curriculum 28 Feb 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN OCTOBER 2019 Disclaimer: this blog post probably offers nothing new but it is my personal reflections on the framework and how we can use it to create…
Assessment… Revisiting old posts: Curriculum and assessment 28 Feb 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN OCTOBER 2019 The fourth area the curriculum framework asks us to consider is that of assessment and how we assess our pupils in order to ascertain whether…
Assessment… Revisiting old posts: Evaluating and growing learning 28 Feb 202128 Feb 2021 POSTED ORIGINALLY IN JANUARY 2020 Teaching a new curriculum is an overwhelming and daunting prospect for any classroom teacher. There are a multitude of decisions to make and the first…
Assessment… Revisiting old posts: Slow and steady wins the race 28 Feb 202128 Feb 2021 POST ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON APRIL 17TH 2020 One of the things I am hearing a lot about at the moment is the need to strip back, focus on foundational aspects…
Curriculum Revisiting old posts: Skellig versus Oliver Twist. Skellig and Oliver Twist. 28 Feb 202128 Feb 2021 POST WRITTEN 18TH APRIL 2020 Another interesting debate happened last night about the teaching of Skellig versus the teaching of Oliver Twist and one having more cultural capital than the…
Curriculum Reflecting on…curriculum 25 Oct 202030 Oct 2020 One of the reasons I applied in the end to step up to the temporary position of HOD was because I wanted to work on our KS3 curriculum which I…
