Charlotte McFarlan

Today was two planning support sessions with trainees, one observation feedback and a bespoke session with an ECT on supporting her Y11s in the countdown to GCSEs. Rarely have such busy day these days. Nice to get stuck in #MathsToday

We're looking forward to seeing our trainees online on Wednesday. They'll be engaging with some academic reading, have a choice of sessions honing in on different parts of their PGCE assignment, and finishing with an exciting session from Jayne Webster about representations in maths #MathsToday

Sometimes, self-care is reading books, eating pastries, and petting cats.

The Ground Game is Back In an era of fractured politics and collapsing trust, grassroots organising offers the left a path to victory.

The Greens are offering a different kind of politics – one that offers a sense of solidarity, camaraderie, and agency in an age of individualism.

Contests like this don’t just give us hope. They make us feel we’re part of something bigger than ourselves.
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Getting back into it this week after an exercised-filled January but a slow start to February! Run before work on Tuesday and two gym classes ✅

A grid of empty boxes with the headings: A is the point, B is the point,Midpoint of AB, Length of AB. Gradient of a parallel and perpendicular line. y-intercept, x intercept, equation of the line and sketch.

(Yet) another "Blank is Best" slide used in #MathsToday.

I made up the coordinates of A and B and Y10 had to try and fill the rest.

I’d say it was 10? Because it’s 10 to the power of 1/1 right?

Yes!

Oh yeah, had one of those recently and felt similarly

Is simple interest ever a thing in real life? Watched two lessons on it this week and can’t help thinking “what’s the point?” #MathsToday

Sun rising behind a hill

Spring is in the air this morning. I feel this weird sense of hope! ☀️🌼

Well done to our Y1s who submitted a sample of their literature review yesterday for feedback, another milestone of the PGCE year done ✅ This half-term, many of them will be starting their practitioner research in their classrooms and we're excited to hear how it goes! #MathsToday

Labour’s Send revolution is a high-stakes experiment. It also threatens precious parental rights | John Harris Bridget Phillipson’s 10-year plan is generous in places, but it has its problems. Not least that it could be trashed by a Reform government, says Guardian columnist John Harris

And here it is: the SEND reform plan, and why - for all its good intentions - it threatens a terrifying loss of rights, just when the worst imaginable govt might be newly in power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

White paper says: "Out of 27 European countries, the UK is last in how happy 15-year-olds are with their life. We want to give children their childhood back." It is great to see this being recognised.

Maternity pay for teachers in England to rise from 2027-28 First increase in quarter of a century comes as ministers seek to boost school staff retention rates

This announcement is a positive step for school staff, and a real win for those who have campaigned for fairer maternity provision. There is however still more to do to achieve full parity of maternity pay across the public sector.
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Introducing ClassWiz+: find out what you need to know - Casio Calculators Get all the information you need about our new range of ClassWiz+ scientific calculators, including improvements in navigation and functionality.

🎓 Students & teachers, here’s everything you need to know about the new ClassWiz+ range. education.casio.co.uk/blog/introdu...

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

A victory for common sense
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Watching this and absolutely loving it. Wish I’d been there live to see the chat but still well worth catching up on #MathsToday

Guessing they pre-teach FM lot integration or do all of maths in Y1 then all of further in Y2?

Is this on the new calculator?? I don’t even know where to find it on there. Used to be my fave button!

I give my yr12 pure lot paper homework every lesson and one of them’s just pulled an uno reverse card out of their pocket and placed it on their desk. The gall! 😅

In #MathsToday I had a great time geeking out on my @ncetm.bsky.social PD Lead course in a lovely school in sunny West London

Algebra tiles demonstrating that 5 consecutive integers can always form a 5 by "something" rectangle.

We used algebra tiles in #MathsToday to prove that the sum of 5 consecutive integers is always a multiple of 5.

A sheet on the normal distribution using rules of thumb for proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean. There are three diagrams: one showing 68% of the distribution within 1 sd, a second showing 95% of the distribution within 2sd, and a third showing almost 100% within 3sd. Then there are 4 questions: 1. Masses of adult females of a species of dolphin are normally distributed with mean 220 kg and standard deviation 18 kg. What proportion of female dolphins of this species are between 202 kg and 256 kg in weight? 2. Heights of leprechauns are normally distributed with a mean of 1.2 m. 16 % of leprechauns are over 1.3 m tall. What proportion of leprechauns are under 1 m tall? 3. Harriet is studying a species of lizard. 2.5 % of them have masses under 20g, and 16 % of them have masses over 38 g. What is the mean mass of the lizards, assuming that their masses are normally distributed? 4. Harshant measures the heights of 400 sixteen year old boys. The tallest is 191 cm tall and the shortest is 158 cm tall. Estimate the probability that a randomly selected sixteen year old boy is between 169 cm and 180 cm tall. What assumptions are needed for this estimate to be valid?

Normal distributions in #CoreMaths this week. I like the approach of introducing calculations using the proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean to begin with. And thanks to @catrionaagg.bsky.social I always label inflection points.

#MathsToday

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Love this. Strong believer in uniform but strong believer in comfortable and practical. Hate blazers - so many pockets for contraband for one thing!!

Photo of a women delivering training with a screen that displays an activity about writing critically

Photo of a women delivering training with a screen that displays an activity that involves sorting quadratic graphs into a two-way table

Image of post-it notes stuck on a sheet of paper answering the question 'what's gone well?' The post-it notes cover things such as improved relationships with students and getting better at lesson planning

Was great to see our Y1s at training days in Birmingham, Leeds & London last week. We loved hearing how you're getting on in school and geeking out on some maths with you all. Trainees also got thinking about their next steps in their practitioner research for their PGCE assignment #MathsToday

This is fabulous! Happy birthday!

Y7 I’d say, feels more aimed at the younger ones (although I loved it)

It’s good fun. When I went on a Saturday with my partner I think we were the only people without children but we had a great time nonetheless