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Connecting in a contactless classroom

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021Oxford English Team

In my previous blog ‘ Four Stages of Reimagining the Classroom’ , I presented the fictional Hammerhill Academy’s English Department and their journey to setting up a virtual learning provision. Since then it would be fair to say that Hammerhill – like all real schools across the U.K – would have gone through a rapidly transformational voyage of virtual learning discovery. The most […]

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How are you feeling? Taking care of yourself while teaching in lockdown

February 26, 2021March 3, 2021Oxford English Team

If you had said a year ago that working from home was possible for a teacher, the idea would have been unthinkable. We can’t teach from home! We need to be with our pupils – seeing what they’re doing, motivating them, watching out for their behaviour and making sure they’re focused. How would we mark […]

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Remote learning: Fun ideas to help parents maintain their children’s core English and maths skills

February 18, 2021February 17, 2021Oxford Primary
Primary remote teaching and learning

We’re hearing from lots of you how challenging it can be to find the right balance to help parents support their children with learning at home during school closures, without overwhelming them. Here are just a few suggestions for simple (and fun!) ways parents can help maintain their children’s core English and maths skills, using […]

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Remote learning: 8 top tips to help parents support their children with phonics

February 5, 2021February 4, 2021Oxford Primary
Primary remote teaching and learning

For those children who are in the early stages of learning to read, one of your top priorities is going to be ensuring they keep up momentum while they’re learning at home. But for many parents, especially if they learnt to read differently when they were at school themselves, phonics is completely new – and […]

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Remote learning: 8 top tips to help parents support their children with comprehension

February 5, 2021February 4, 2021Oxford Primary
Primary remote teaching and learning

Here are some handy comprehension resources and simple ideas to share with parents to help them support their children’s reading comprehension during school closures.

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8 Top Tips for Remote Learning

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021Oxford Primary
Primary remote teaching and learning

Over the past weeks and months, we’ve all had to adapt to uncertainty, and being flexible has become a necessity for schools, pupils and parents alike – and you’re all doing an amazing job! Now that you’ve had the chance to try out new approaches inside and outside of the classroom, it’s a good point […]

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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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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
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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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Moving from GCSE to A level in Religious Studies

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020Oxford RE Team 1 Comment
Moving from GCSE to A Level Religious Studies

Libby Ahluwalia shares preparation strategies for students in lockdown who are moving from GCSE to A Level Religious Studies next term Coronavirus is presenting a lot of difficulties and uncertainties for everyone, including those of you who are moving on from Year 11 and planning to begin studying for A levels next term. Many of […]

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5 Tips for Teaching from Home while maintaining sanity, structure and a work-life balance

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020Oxford Languages Team
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Rebecca Nobes shares five strategies she’s using to adjust to teaching from home during lockdown. I’d like to start this blog with a quick disclaimer, I am no expert. I am a teacher like any other just trying to make these strange times work as best they can. This blog is an opportunity for me […]

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