Peter Williams

"These of we" in Children of Ruin are comfortably the most terrifying things I've ever read.

Highly recommend the series, because the first book is excellent as well, and significantly less frightening (unless you don't like spiders).

At the weekend I did Chinese style chicken drumsticks like that.

Tonight we had chicken, potato and chorizo (with a little fresh veg chucked in for good measure) with a paprika seasoning.

I've discovered this week the best use of an air fryer.

Chuck raw ingredients in with dry seasoning (pre-packaged like the schwartz stuff if you're in a hurry)

Put it on and ignore it until the food is cooked.

Is that what they're doing?

And do teachers all think an outstanding lesson is a lecture?

Seems like quite a stretch to me, and I've seen my fair share of lessons over the years.

I hope most children aren't being subjected to five hours of lectures every day.

They certainly don't get lectures in my classroom.

Sometimes I'm convinced something isn't true, and then the algebra stubbornly refutes my convictions.

That's pretty fun.

So excited that this arrived today, and the adorable little pin was a pleasant surprise!

Thanks @welcometowillerby.bsky.social

Hah, I gave up and mashed the show letter button.

It's clever, but I would never have figured it out on my own!

We could look outside of school for wider cultural changes as well.

Shifts in home life have a significant impact on children's attitudes towards school.

You can filter by assessment objective, so you could build up your 30% of AO3 questions first, then add in the others after.

I can't see a quick way of telling what proportion you have after the paper is made sadly, which is why it would stay with a real one and modify if at all possible.

This is Edexcel.

AQA also use formal notation, which I'm pretty sure is mentioned in their guidance documents.

OCR deliberately don't use the formal notation, instead opting to use diagrams of function machines.

Edexcel ExamWizard is the way to go, if you don't already have an account it's free, and pretty straightforward to use.

If you're talking year 10, then I'd start from scratch on ExamWizard.

Filter by topics and just start grabbing questions I like the look of.

Try to match the difficulty curve of a real exam, so first 5 questions on the mock should be from questions 1-5 on the real papers.

If it's very few questions to change, I'll usually work from the actual exam paper pdf files, as then I don't have to play with formatting very much.

If there are a lot of adjustments, I'd use the exam Wizard tool to compile it.

Depends on how far through the course we are.

If it's for year 11, so almost everything is fine to include, start with a past paper and cut the handful of questions that don't apply, then search for replacement questions of roughly the same level of challenge from another paper in the same series.

I quite like my bodum clear plastic one, haven't noticed a plastic taste.
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Definitely better than metal, but you're always going to get a different flavour when it isn't in a ceramic mug, I don't think that's avoidable.

This seems like an odd comment.

The question is just checking that they can apply the factor theorem.

It's question 1 on a paper, it isn't meant to be testing deep understanding, it's exactly as you say in the blog post, a light warm up skill check.

This feels like a good question to ask in @teachertapp.bsky.social, for all subjects, not just maths!

(and at KS3 and KS5 as well)

Technically, yes, but the people will love a rebel princess far more.

Of particular interest in the context is the first sentence on the report for to this question:

"This question was very accessible, familiar to candidates and of low demand, making it particularly suitable for the opening question of the paper."

Exam boards generally do know what they're doing.

You can't get the question level data without a teacher login, but you can access the papers and examiners reports.

The reports give a summary of what students found easy and difficult, and make for interesting reading if you're into that sort of thing:
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More leisure is an excellent plan.

I’m stepping back into a HOD role.
I have my own experiences from the first HOD role but what would your best advice be for going into a new dept and what do you wish you’d have been doing from the start?

Please share to get more voices.

(And answer yourself) @themathsbazaar.bsky.social

But they just want to go on an adventure...

My experience of every general purpose learning platform is that they aren't as good as the maths specific ones.

If the school is going for it, that's fine for lots of other subjects, but for maths you should stick to one that was made just for maths, it'll pretty much always be better.

That at the end of them, it'll be July.

You probably want to work in Ashby.

It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.

Green front cover of the book. Title A Year in Willerby over a lino cut print of main street. Cobblestone road and timbered cottages.

Lino cut print of a dragon with her egg.

lino cut print of a roman sandal.

Lino cut print of a white hare.

A Year in Willerby.

Twelve of our most loved stories printed with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten note.
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Lovely reviews.

Last 16/100 of this first ever edition.

Next orders go out Wednesday.

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