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How to revise A Level Required Practicals

April 22, 2024December 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
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Revision of the A Level Required Practicals probably feels like a daunting task, but in reality most of the hard work is done. The ideas for revision below aim to give you some support with that final hurdle of doing your best in the end of course exam papers! Tip 1: Understand the A Level […]

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11-16 science: making the most of Year 9

February 19, 2024December 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
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Strictly speaking, Key Stage 3 lasts for three years: spanning Years 7 to 9. But over the last decade, an increasing number of schools have switched to offering a two- or two and a half-year KS3 programme. This has allowed schools to redress the difficulty of covering the lengthy GCSE specification content in only Years […]

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Making GCSE Science relevant

February 8, 2024February 9, 2024Oxford Science Team
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A quick search to find and compare the figures for young people taking STEM subjects at further and higher education paints a somewhat ambiguous picture. On the one hand, the DfE suggests record numbers of young people are being accepted onto STEM undergraduate courses1; significantly up from similar figures a decade ago. On the other […]

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Reducing cognitive load in Oxford Smart Activate

February 2, 2024December 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
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Cognitive load relates to the amount of information that a person can hold in their working memory at any one time. During learning, information is held in your working memory until it has been processed enough to transfer into your larger capacity long-term memory. If new information is not transferred, it will most likely be […]

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Teaching the fight for rights in KS3 History

November 27, 2023November 29, 2023Oxford History Team
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Aaron Wilkes and guests discuss how effective teaching of case studies on the fights for Women’s Rights, Disability Rights, Black Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ Rights can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum.

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Teaching migration in KS3 History

November 23, 2023November 29, 2023Oxford History Team
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Find out how effective teaching of migration can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum, with insights from the learning team at the Migration Museum.

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Oxford Smart Activate: Supporting all science teachers

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Oxford Science Team

As every learner is unique, so is every science teacher. Each with their own specialisms and areas of interest, there are always going to be parts of the science curriculum in which science teachers are more-confident and others in which they need more guidance. Adding to that, teacher recruitment and retention being an increasing concern […]

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Unseen and unheard: bringing disabled people from Britain’s past into the history classroom

November 20, 2023November 29, 2023Oxford History Team
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Phillipa Vincent-Connolly shares four ways you can bring disability history into your Secondary History curriculum.

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How to implement the new AQA French GCSE in the classroom

October 30, 2023October 30, 2023Oxford Languages Team
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By Séverine Capjon, author and French teacher

‘Wait, what? The French GCSE specification is changing again?!’ This is the comment I made when a colleague informed me that the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual were working on a new French GCSE. I find change in education a little daunting but I was relieved to read…

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Top tips for teaching the new AQA GCSE Spanish specification

October 30, 2023October 30, 2023Oxford Languages Team
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By Tony Weston and José García, authors and Spanish teachers

From September 2024, thousands of budding young Hispanists across the country will once again be embarking on a two-year AQA GCSE Spanish course, one which they hope will bring them both enjoyment and success.

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