Charlotte McFarlan

Good sensible thread

6. For this to be useful the conversation absolutely must not be about whether ADHD and ASD are being over diagnosed. Instead it should be "how are these diagnoses being arrived at and are they helping people?"
This means looking at processes, interventions and a wide range of outcomes.

I do Strands! Was introduced to Pips today. Fun but hard!

I had a y12 class like that once. Very disconcerting. Glad you got them talking

Working in ITT, I feel a bit further removed from the impact of my role (compared with classroom teaching). But a couple of really positive things today have made me see how far some trainees have come this term and how positively that will be impacting students in their classrooms ☺️

As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”

A fill the blanks worksheet (available to download from Rob Southern’s website if you want a higher resolution copy and the answers)

In #MathsToday Y13 filled this normal distribution table #ALevelMaths

I love this resource, especially when students get to the second one of the bottom row and get stuck, at which point I usually prompt them to look for where 0.7778 appears elsewhere. But today, that didn’t happen…

In #MathsToday I used stem sentences to support teaching of expanding brackets. I was pleasantly surprised to hear pupils respond to questions using the structure of the stem sentence without me prompting them to do so. Would love to hear others' experiences of stem sentences in secondary maths.

A bell curve with the area greater than 40.8 shaded with the area marked as 0.1044, and then 8 related questions with blanks to fill in.

After #MathsToday I created a new fill in the blanks generator on Normal Distribution.

www.interactive-maths.com/normal-distr...

You can choose what is revealed / hidden for any randomly generated distribution by clicking. Easy to screenshot into a presentation, or use live.

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My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.

And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".

Matching activity on transformations of trigonometric graphs suitable for Year 12 AS and A-level Maths students.

Fill in the blanks task on work done in extending an elastic string suitable for A-level Further Maths students.

New A-level Maths and Further Maths resources:
✨Transformations of Trig Graphs Match-Up
✨Elastic Strings and Work Done Fill in the Blanks
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
#UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Teaching circumference of a circle to Y9 in #MathsToday and enjoyed a bit of “always, sometimes, never”. Loved the discussion that this created and the thinking of is it/is not examples

Thank-you 😍

Anyone know of any sites offering free “grade 9” or bronze, silver, gold gcse maths papers? I’m sure these were once a thing but can’t really find now #MathsToday

Oh wow 😔

Amazing. Never tried that method.

That last one is quite the win! What method?

Extract from DfE guidance: How they staff the breakfast club A ‘whole school approach’, with senior staff, reception, kitchen staff and senior business manager support, alongside Farlington Wrap Around Service, has enabled the club to run smoothly. It includes: *Farlington Wrap Around Service operating the free breakfast club using their own staff *school kitchen staff and care takers taking on additional responsibilities to oversee all the cleaning up of free breakfast club bowls, plates and cutlery *senior leaders at the school stepping in to support when take up of the free breakfast club increases

This has been my worry all along with the breakfast club nonsense. You can talk about funding all you like, the long and the short of it is that school leaders end up with another job on the list, another extension to their working day, and the job becomes ever harder...
And this is from DfE advice!

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Sounds great. Very different from most schools I know of

Love this! Does your school not require you to give them a grade?

I feel like Dulwich College also have some questions to answer on the back of this

In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people.

Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite

Love this. Is that the same as Napier’s bones??

Murder in London Rolling 12-month murder total View: In numbers / rate / teens / London (since 1990 / 2003) 200 150 Oct '25 93 100 50 0 Jan '05 Jan '10 Jan '15 Jan '20 Jan '25 Includes manslaughter, infanticide, corporate manslaughter. Met Police data; excludes jurisdiction of City of London Police (for the square-mile financial district) & British Transport Police. Data to Oct 2025. published Nov 2025. updated month/v.

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

In #mathstoday I’ve been desperately trying to find some short videos I remember on the maths needed in various careers, aimed at KS3/4 (rather than A Level which I can find on AMSP
@meimaths.bsky.social ) I’m sure one featured Grove Lodge Vets in Brighton. Any ideas anyone pls? Or similar?

Do you do this from the very beginning (y8/9?) I tried to get my old department to do that but they wouldn’t go for it