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An update on speaking like a Geographer

September 3, 2018August 31, 2018Oxford Geography Team

Over a year ago, in a previous post for this blog , I wrote about my focus of encouraging students of ALL ages to ‘Speak Like A Geographer’. This was in light of having previously restricted this focus on terminology to GCSE and A Level cohorts – and wondering why they didn’t manage to adjust to the required key words and […]

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A Whole School Vision: Mastering Inspire Maths in Advocate Schools

August 23, 2018October 9, 2018Oxford Primary
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‘Inspire Maths is future proofing both our children and our curriculum’ – Maths Teacher at St Thomas’ C of E Primary School St Thomas’ C of E Primary School became an Advocate School for Inspire Maths in Spring 2017. Assistant Headteacher Liam Noon, and Maths Subject Lead and Teacher Judith Myhill discuss the triumphs of implementing […]

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Improve Spelling with the Spelling Training Toolkit

March 19, 2018October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Is spelling really that important any more? Especially in the modern world where children are growing up using onscreen documents, emails, texts, all with autocorrect? Unfortunately, as Jerrold Zar illustrates in his poem ‘An Ode to a Spellchecker’, we can’t always trust the computer to spot the ‘Miss steaks aye kin knot sea’. The truth […]

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Mastery: Firm foundations for the avoidance of misery

March 15, 2018October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Vanessa Pittard shares expert advice on how to build firm foundations with mastery. I’d like to suggest that one of the benefits of mastery is the avoidance of misery. I’ll focus on primary maths, but what I write here applies as much at KS4/GCSE as to Key Stage 2. What’s the point of introducing mastery […]

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I am NOT a slow reader – I am a work in progress…

March 1, 2018Fiona Lloyd-Williams

Rebecca Geoghegan shares her advice for supporting ‘low ability readers’. You can also read her blog about approaches for supporting lower ability writers .  When I hear the label ‘low ability reader’, I instantly think of the Allan Ahlberg poem ‘I am a Slow Reader’ which depicts the syllabification of words as the ‘slow reader’ gets to grips with the decoding […]

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Who Am I and What can I Achieve? The Role of Identity in A-levels

February 21, 2018Oxford Psychology Team 1 Comment

After 15 years as a psychology teacher it was noticeable that for many students A-levels were so much more than simply qualifications. Of course, they are high stakes examinations as the grades students achieve influence their life chances, their chances of entry into higher education and the options that are subsequently available to them, but […]

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Christmas, Science and Chocolate!

December 15, 2017December 15, 2017Oxford Psychology Team

A Christmas Tale… Last Christmas, my six year old son came up with a brilliant plan. If you can’t buy something in the shops… ask Father Christmas for it! Some time ago, one of the major supermarkets made chocolate orange spread – spreadable chocolate orange! It became an instant favourite and we stockpiled a few […]

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Mastery myths: the inspection challenge

August 24, 2017October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Ofsted has put a fair amount of effort into debunking common myths about inspection. Its response to these, set out on gov.uk  [1] and reinforced in the inspection handbook [2] , should offer some comfort to schools choosing to adopt teaching for mastery in mathematics. For example, teachers using textbooks as the basis for lesson planning will […]

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Mastery myths: textbooks constrain creative teaching

August 24, 2017October 9, 2018Oxford Primary 1 Comment

Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West contains the famous opening line: Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. I’ve heard this message echoed in a variety of forms over recent years by educators who are wary, and sometimes sceptical, of the value of mathematics teaching methods […]

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Introducing children to great stories

July 17, 2017October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Some stories have a kind of DNA. The characters, themes and ideas pass from story to story, evolving and changing along the way. Each new storyteller adds their own ideas and interprets the characters and the dilemmas they face in new and unexpected ways. In popular culture, we retell these great stories again and again, […]

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