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Feedback and the Virtual Classroom

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021Oxford History Team Leave a comment

It seems like a lifetime ago that Aaron Wilkes and I wrote about the return to the classroom after the first national lockdown. We focused in that blog about how to spot the gaps and how to recover the curriculum – and here we are again. Teaching children History (or indeed, any subject) remotely is […]

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‘It takes a village to raise a child’ – How to move wellbeing from being someone’s job to everyone’s job.

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021Hannah Ball Leave a comment

Beth Kerr is Group Wellbeing Director at Cognita, offers advice on how to make the promotion of wellbeing in school communities a collective responsibility.

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Creating a metacognitive classroom

January 6, 2021January 22, 2021Oxford English Team Leave a comment

Metacognition is about pupils’ ability to monitor and direct their own learning. The concept of metacognition has been around for a long time, but seems to be having a revival recently, perhaps in part owing to some of the challenges presented by lockdown. Beyond the nightmare navigation of zooms, screen sharing and behaviour management from […]

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Student Research in the time of Covid

January 4, 2021January 5, 2021Oxford Psychology Team Leave a comment
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Psychology A Level teacher, examiner and text book author, Rachel Moody discusses her experience of teaching research methods during Covid and how she even benefited from the flexible, consultation-style teaching brought on by remote learning.

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Improving Reading – a whole school approach

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020Oxford English Team

If you’re new to the role of literacy lead, or just have an interest in approaching Literacy across the school I’d strongly advise beginning your journey with vocabulary – I have written two blogs on this (links below). It makes sense that before students can access texts, we teach them how to access words, and […]

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The Future of Maths Textbook design – Bethany Woollacott

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020Oxford Maths
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Bethany Woollacott discusses her research on Mathematics textbook design and shares her favourite features in the Oxford Revise series.

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Supporting non-specialists

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020Oxford Geography Team

This September, for the first time in many years, I found myself leading a department with non-specialist teachers delivering Year 7 geography. I know from speaking to others that this is a position that many geography departments find themselves in year after year and so I recognise how rare my experience has been if this […]

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Rethinking Revision with Andy Lewis

December 4, 2020December 9, 2020Oxford RE Team
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“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]

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Speaking endorsement for MFL GCSE 2021

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020Katherine Jefferies

Last week we saw the final criteria for the MFL speaking endorsement published by Ofqual ( link here ). For our colleagues in English this is not a new thing, but for us in MFL it is a novelty and as such it has raised a certain amount of uncertainty and concern. How can we decide fairly […]

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The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020Katherine Jefferies
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The Translation Exchange at the Queen’s College, Oxford, launched a brand-new competition for schools in September 2020. The competition is inspired by the work of the translator Anthea Bell OBE (1936–2018), one of the finest and most influential literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. The competition takes place in March 2021, but we […]

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