To everyone out there who has ever told someone they aren't good at Maths, please read.

Without the arts (drama/art/music) as a a small beacon of light during my eldest sons secondary school experience, school would have been unbearable for him. These subjects give more, for some they are lifelines. They are also windows to possible futures. Geoff Barton

1. Lack of respect 2. Sense of entitlement Two huge problems in our society. Schools need backing to: 1. Not tolerate lack of respect/basic manners - proper consequences 2. Rejection of ‘demands’ of those parents/students who expect everything without any responsibility

I’ve used the recent Tes article to create this 10 min Andrew Tate PPT for use in form time next week. We go into much more detail in our spiralled PSHE SOW but it’s important to continue the conversation. Let me know if you’d like a copy ✅

My Year 11s are preparing this week for their Non-Calculator mock examination. So I put together a little revision reminder sheet. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please retweet and DM a request. Working through the backlog of requests atm.

🧩 Adaptive Teaching - How-to guide (draft)

We are looking at Sparx for our school, what are peoples feedback on the platform/system/programme #edutwitter

If you’re struggling to keep up with the news, let me summarise: 1. The world is burning 2. Our govt are crooks 3. Saudis own everything 4. There’s sewage in the water 5. The NHS has snapped 6. Brexit was shit 7. Billionaires run the world 8. Energy companies are Satan 9. Butter

Cedars Maths Department’s MT Maths has been working with Enigma Maths Hub and NCETM to develop Teaching for Mastery in secondary schools Want to know more, come to our open evening tomorrow! #achievingexcellence #engaged #aspriational #successful

Thank you to Cedars Upper School and MT Maths for another fantastic middle school maths masterclass today. Collaborative working with Brooklands Maths Dept Gilbert Inglefield Academy Linslade School Leighton Middle School Brooklands School 💕

Fantastic day yesterday on my first #masteryspecialist with the NCETM, lots of ideas and need to see St Marylebone School after hearing g their case study in the day. Back to reality today but with lots of ideas to share with our department Cedars Upper School

Brilliant to host this and the students were amazing, staff brilliant and our sixth form leaders were amazing. #achievingexcellence #maths #CedarsMasterclasses

It's here! 1 Question on every topic GCSE Higher ✅106 Original Questions ✅Full Higher Spec Coverage ✅Ordered by Difficulty (ish) ✅Video Solutions (if you can tolerate me for 3h 40mins) No catches or signups, just a free resource. 💙 1stclassmaths.com/_files/ugd/9f3…

Fantastic session with Enigma Maths Hub’s Jayne Webster on Representations

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Excellent morning from Chiltern Learning Trust with Doug Lemov and session on sharing best practice #CLTWorkingTogether

How to trigger a maths teacher: ‘Multiplying by ten? It’s easy. You just add a zero.’

Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths. There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems. But that’s not the same thing at all

Seeing a lot of schools mandating retrieval practice in every lesson but also seeing quite a few misconceptions. A quick thread: 10 ways to get retrieval practice wrong ⬇️ 🧵

Was fantastic fun to host Linslade School, Leighton Middle School & Brooklands School for our masterclass