Howdy Peeps! 3 weeks today is Christmas Eve! YAY!.... but before that there are still 2 weeks of school. Most year 11 students have sat through Mock exams in the last month and are awaiting results...some come this week! (Don't worry if they don't, some schools don't get them til after Christmas.) What I want [...]
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International Youth Day
Morning Peeps! Happy Youth Day! 🙂 I love working with teenagers, they teach me as I teach them. They'll explain the latest slang/text abbreviation/dance craze without hesitation and tell you exactly what they think/feel about certain things. We should be encouraging them to speak up more, not telling them to hush. So many young people [...]
Not Yet…
Hey-ho Peeps! Sorry I've been out and about for a couple of days. Well, it's August. August means results time for our GCSE and A-Level takers, they may not be thinking about much else as they are preparing for their future. Please be gentle and encouraging if they are nervous and in limbo. A-level results [...]
SATs Test Results
Howdy Peeps. I hope you're all safe and dry? It's a bit damp here in Cornwall! The SATs tests Year 2 and 6 pupils took last month (where the heck did that time go?!) will be being marked as we speak and the results out around the end of June/beginning of July. As with every [...]
New Grading Explained
Morning Peeps! Gone are the days of A* and F grades, all main subjects at GCSE are now graded 9-1. A lot of people ask me to explain it to them, so I thought I'd share it on here. 9 is basically above an old A* for the elite who get full marks. 4 and [...]