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KS3 to GCSE transition

Supporting your child through GCSEs

May 31, 2019July 26, 2019Oxford Education

What to expect during the GCSE years and how to support your child If you have a child about to embark on their ‘GCSE journey’, there are probably any number of questions spinning around your mind. Aside from the obvious one (which is “where has all the time gone? It only seems like yesterday they […]

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Improving Key Stage 3: Decisions, decisions, decisions!

September 26, 2017September 22, 2017Oxford Geography Team 2 Comments
Dunn's River Falls, Jamaica

As we begin the second year of new specifications, it feels as though the attention of many geography departments is once again focused on Key Stage 3, reflecting upon the change required here in order to best prepare our students for what we now know lies ahead. One of the biggest challenges I have found […]

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Jill Carter: Key Stage 3 and GCSE – Joining the Dots

September 29, 2016September 26, 2016Fiona Lloyd-Williams

Just before the summer I had a meeting during which someone important in a school told me that they’d like to start preparing students for the demands of the new GCSEs from Year 7. This could be radical practice in some schools; we seem to have lost the knack of joining the thinking between the […]

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Jill Carter: Making 19th Century fiction exciting at KS3

May 16, 2016May 23, 2016Jill Carter

Once upon a time, many many years ago, I was subjected to my first Ofsted. I was terrified and, worse still, I was teaching Treasure Island. I remember a wonderfully helpful Learning Support teacher spending hours with me cutting out bits of paper, making some kind of treasure game or something. It was so convoluted […]

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