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Strictly RE 2021 – Dawn Cox

January 25, 2021January 26, 2021Oxford RE Team
Strictly RE

It’s hard to believe that it’s a year ago that RE teachers were gathered at a hotel in outer London for Strictly RE 2020. Little did we know how things would change for Strictly RE 2021. Everything has moved online and it’s already begun! This year, NATRE have thought carefully about how they can support […]

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Rethinking Revision with Andy Lewis

December 4, 2020December 9, 2020Oxford RE Team
rethink revision

“…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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4 ways to make every minute of every lesson count in the time of Covid-19

November 4, 2020February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team
Drop Everything and Read blog

This return to school has been like no other. As usual, we have had to face confirmation of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve after a long summer break; but this time, with the addition of those months in lockdown. And, although happy to be back in school, we have found ourselves having to work extra hard not […]

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Bubbly Year 10 pod return to the classroom!

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020Oxford Science Team

So, we are now in July, and according to the government, we are through the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and life is beginning to break out of lockdown.  We have had about a quarter of the calendar year and more than ten teaching weeks away from our classrooms and we are starting to welcome […]

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Identifying gaps and catching-up

July 2, 2020June 30, 2020Oxford English Team

Sarah Eggleton suggests some strategies and tips to help you plan how to assess your students, identifying gaps and start the process of catching-up. Lockdown has resulted in the majority of students having received only 6 months of face to face education this year. We know it has hit those children who are disadvantaged the […]

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Four Stages of Reimagining the Classroom

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020Oxford English Team
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Rebecca Geoghegan discusses how lessons and learning might evolve through an increased virtual experience with her four stages of reimagining the classroom. When the closures were announced on the 18th March, most schools would say that they had an inkling it was coming. International news had led to much speculation and ‘loose’ plans being created […]

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Language teaching in September – what might it look like?

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team 2 Comments
Teacher listening in classrooom

Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar (‘Learning to doubt is learning to think’). -Octavio Paz In March this year, school life as we know it shuddered to a halt, and as we write, when and under what guise it will fully return remains unclear. Over the past few months, teachers and students will have […]

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Supporting key year groups as they return to school

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team

How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]

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Antibodies and the coronacoaster: one science teacher’s personal insights into C-19 testing and the science behind it

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020Oxford Science Team
antibodies

I’m on the “coronacoaster”: one minute I’m up and the next I’m down – it’s an emotional rollercoaster.  Most of the time, I feel like it’s all fine and we are just in a new normal, but in the blink of an eye, I’m flying by the seat of my pants, heading down with the […]

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Getting back to the History classroom

June 19, 2020June 22, 2020Oxford History Team
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On Friday 20th March, it was announced that all UK schools would close to staff and most pupils in a bid to tackle the spread of Covid-19. Immediately teachers started to do what teachers do best – they began the tricky job of ensuring that both the students who would be at home for the […]

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