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Tag Archives: Teaching
Moving on up
Today the current year 9 students went to meet their new year 10 form tutors. In our school students have a form tutor in year 7, then they go into year 8 and have a new form tutor who they keep until year 9. Then for years 10 and 11 they stay with a different tutor.
There’s a bit of a change of mental gears required when the students enter year… Continue reading
The end is nearly in sight
Just a week and a half left at school before the end of this year. We are on week 38 of 39… The timetable is starting to fall apart as various groups of students go off on different school trips, work experience and badly timed holidays.
We’re introducing a new course next year for the GCSE kids, so have been up to our armpits in devising a whole new scheme of… Continue reading
Have GCSEs become easier?
Maybe, maybe not. However here’s some exam questions from the 50s.
First we have some GCE O Level General Science:
1. State the Principle of Archimedes, and describe
carefully an experiment you have carried out to verify
this principle.
Explain briefly (a) why a hydrogen balloon rises,
but will eventually stop rising; (b) how a balloonist can
control the altitude of his balloon.
And then on Monday 29th of June, 1959 at 2pm until… Continue reading
Two less things on the treadmill of teaching
The GCSE lot did their ICT exam today. Due to some swift fudging by senior management I ended up swapping my supposedly “sacred” PPA time in the afternoon with a cover period earlier in the day so that I could go and be an invig… ‘behaviour supervisor’ in the hall. Staff are not required to be exam invigilators, the email from the assistant principal said… but we are needed to… Continue reading
End of Term catch-up
This is great. Year 11 have been on exam leave for the past week, meaning they might only come in for revision lessons or exams (and so far I’ve had one student come back and that was last Tuesday). The ICT exam is tomorrow, so after that I gain four lessons each week. My form was a year 11 group so I gain a morning and afternoon and one lesson… Continue reading
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