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SLOP (Shed Loads of Practise)

I recently read this article on the TES on SLOP (Shed Loads of Practise) Although the acronym is new, the concept is not. You get better...

AQA GCSE Science's best revision tool - the specification

You have started your revision in earnest. Maybe you have spent some time making a lovely colour coded revision plan. Sometimes, you wake...

The hidden cost of exams part 1 - lost teacher time

The frenzy of the exam results is over. Now that the dust has settled, what have we learnt? We learnt that the whole process was...

Escape rooms instead of exams

I did my first escape room a few weeks back and I loved it. We had to unlock the safe that contained an antidote to a deadly disease that...

Creativity and its benefits

Creativity has done a lot for me. I have a brilliant time, writing gamebooks The writing I did has had some secondary benefits. Besides...

The Future of Education

I've always been very interested in the future. My first exposure to the study of the future was in Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock...

Ways of learning

Exam season has ended and so a new routine of tutoring has begun with some new people. I'm currently listening to an audiobook with the...

Projects and science

This week, I did a lesson with a home ed group on making fire. We had decided to do lessons about the science of things going back in...

The cost of exams

All the science GCSEs are over and, if you took them, I hope they went well for you. This was the first year of the new GCSEs and I am...

Neurotribes

I'm listening to Neurotribes by Steve Silberman and Oliver Sacks. It is a history of the treatment of autism and how to approach autism....