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Once bitten, twice shy: ensuring your department is prepared for a second school closure

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020Oxford Science Team

As teachers in schools we currently need to simultaneously plan for both a normal September AND a second lockdown. What ways can we try to achieve both of these long term plans?

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Why you should add more SLOP to your science lessons — and how to do it

September 23, 2019March 16, 2020Oxford Science Team

If you have been roaming through the education blogosphere or edutwitter you will have started to notice an increase in the reference of SLOP. SLOP stands for ‘Shed Loads of Practice’. The term SLOP was coined by Adam Boxer and Ruth Walker in the early stages in the formation of CogSciSci , a group of teachers and academics interested in […]

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