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Locking in lockdown – what have we learnt?

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021Oxford English Team

The day to day existence of a teacher has changed beyond recognition this year as we moved from classroom to remote learning; from bubble to zone; back to remote learning and now back to the classroom once more! Phewf! Given the many, many ways we have adapted as a profession; isn’t it time to take […]

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Keeping great geography at the heart of our return

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021Oxford Geography Team 1 Comment

With all the talk of a “catch-up curriculum”, what is my priority upon our return to in-person learning? Keeping great geography at the heart of my lessons. While I don’t want students to dismiss the past two months of learning as ‘irrelevant’, I also want to be mindful that some of the content covered simply […]

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The educational challenges for students when they return to school

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020Oxford English Team 1 Comment
Getting back to the classroom

Geoff Barton outlines the discussion that took place during a recent ASCL webinar on the educational challenges facing students when they return to school.

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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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The educational challenges for students when they return to school

June 22, 2020May 6, 2022Oxford English Team

‘A Sea of Talk’ Helen Prince considers some of the educational challenges facing schools and offers her advice for encouraging developing vocabulary across the curriculum. Responding to a pandemic was not part of my teacher training.  Dashing around Christ Church, Canterbury all those years ago, I remember no module on understanding the challenge of students […]

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Looking forward to the return to school

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment
Teacher listening in classrooom

I think if there’s something that the partial school closures have taught me it’s about the aspects of the job that I take for granted. It’s easy to forget the enjoyment of actually being in the classroom, especially on really busy days with back to back lessons. There’s even something to be said about being […]

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