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How to use our new Pinch Point tasks

January 23, 2018Oxford Science Team 2 Comments
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After two years of development and consultation with teachers, we have finally published the Pinch Point tasks in the Activate Intervention Workbooks and they have been very well received. If you are new to the Pinch Point concept, there is a good summary in this article [1]. At the ASE Conference 2018 in Liverpool, we were able to discuss with […]

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researchED: Science Classroom Assessment

May 25, 2016June 1, 2016Oxford Science Team

I’m excited to be talking at researchED Maths and Science, along with many other speakers. I decided to use this opportunity to reflect on the research-informed approach we have implemented for the Activate project. At the start of the Activate project, I sat down with a proposal for a scheme of work (much of the […]

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Developing a 5-year assessment model

January 14, 2016May 3, 2018Oxford Science Team

Since being involved in the Activate project, I’ve no longer thought of KS3 and GCSE as separate entities. This seems to be a trend in many of the schools I speak to, and many now consider the two Key Stages together and talk of a ‘5-year scheme of work’. But what’s the value in this? And what […]

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