curriculum

Writing for different purposes: Brazil 2014

This summer Brazil will be hot news and not just for the tropical weather there for, in June, it hosts the 2014 FIFA World Cup and two years later will host the Olympic Games. How much do you, your friends or your family know about the… Read More

Coucou, j’ai pris le pain!

I believe it is important to get pupils interested in grammar and make sure they understand what they are doing when they put words together. Learners are therefore more likely to produce correct language with a higher level of accuracy. It is more motivating and speeds up foreign language learning. Read More

Turning the tide

The news that GCSE entries for languages have risen significantly this year after almost a decade of steady decline is welcome, not least in the light in the continued drop of pupils in Key Stage 5 studying languages at A level.   However, behind the headline statistics lies the fact that… Read More
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Changes to the ICT Curriculum

With the new academic year upon us, I wonder what troubles lurk ahead and in particular the developing shape of the ICT/Computing curriculum.   As indicators of progress in alternative designs to the computing curriculum, I’ve just been reading reports of progress which have been written by the “Computing at School”… Read More

Secondary Science – Salt

Some of us like to put a little salt on our food to enhance the flavour. While there is no doubt that many of us have too much salt in our diets there is a lot more to salt. Salt is truly one of the chemical “superstuffs” that makes an… Read More

GCSE Science – Performance Tables

Watch how the numbers add up In those heady days of August when the results come through – what do you look for first?  A*-C percentage?  A* percentage?  Which members of the ‘intervention group’ made the grade? Your own teaching group’s grades?  The grade achieved by the non too industrious… Read More