I've made a blog-post where all the resources I've shared - from science curriculum documents to tier two vocabulary lists - can be downloaded. Help yourself! primarycolour.home.blog/2019/11/02/one…

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found: 1. Process goals had a large effect on performance 2. Performance goals had a moderate effect 3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

Our gritters will be out and about this evening and tonight, then again early tomorrow morning. Conditions are still expected to be difficult tomorrow, so please do take care and keep warm if you're going out.

✨️Giveaway I✨️ To be able to win a X-Mansion #Lego set all you have to do is: Follow Me, Like & RT this tweet and tell me your favourite unpopular Mutant! This giveaway will end on 01/10! The winner will get a DM! Good luck everyone! 😊

Due to adverse weather conditions school is closed today (Monday 6 January) to staff and students.

A2 Chem help needed on this! 🙏 the MS reports the answer using 1/2 the value of 2.33 (see photo, yellow post it note has the MS answer). We keep getting to 2.33 as the solubility to use. Are we missing something?

Red cabbage neutralisation

Congratulations to our former Head Boy George Grumley who made his debut for York City FC on Tuesday. George came off the bench as York beat Oldham 2-0 away from home, a phenomenal achievement! x.com/YCFCAcademy/st…

Trying to solve the problem of teaching those drier areas of the course I wrote this. Hope it’s useful. edu.rsc.org/ideas/get-part…

England has one of the shortest breaks in the world. Learning doesn’t suffer, otherwise children in many other countries wouldn’t be bilingual for starters. We shouldn’t conflate education with childcare; they’re not the same. The issue is a lack of clubs for children to do.

Congratulations Yorkshire Water! In the busiest week of the summer holiday you decided to belch sewage into three of the most popular beaches on the East Yorkshire coast around Bridlington and Scarborough. No notices. Just thousands of unaware families + kids swimming in sewage.

This will be familiar to anyone who has tried to reason with a conspiracy theorist. Conceptual change is hard because people who are wrong don’t think they’re wrong. Their model explains the world… until it doesn’t.

If AI is going to be used extensively in office jobs - which I think it will be - then should we be letting students use AI in the classroom? No, and here is why. With reference to 3 important research papers that show why what you do in a job shouldn't be the template for

2 days to go for... ▪️the 'jumping in the air with A level results' pic ▪️the tweet from Jeremy Clarkson about his C and two Us (and that he has a fancy car) ▪️Honourable mention to the 9 year old genius (Maths or Comp Sci) ▪️Not forgetting the twins/triplets who all got 6 As

Clarkson’s Law: The less relatable your life, the more you think it’s inspirational.

Education professors scored no better than physics or business faculty on basic learning science, raising serious questions about teacher preparation programmes. Many of use have been saying this for a long time after discovering cognitive science 5 years into our teaching

Another competition for children to enter. Creating an infographic on an animal behaviour of their choice. Get those creative juices flowing! asab.org/education-news

Finally done! Science folks, this Google sheet has 300 of the most popular Crash Course Science videos all organized nicely for you 😀 AND for every single video, there's a premade quiz, worksheet, and interactive video 😎 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… I hope this is as helpful as I

Thoughts on GCSE Grades. 🧵 In general we're not at peace with the realities of grading. You can't have comparative standards AND have everyone succeed above a certain level. The bell curve is not imposed.. there's no conspiracy. It's an outcome of cohort performance.

Dr Jon Chippindall Example of really big mistake: calling formative assessment formative assessment rather than something like "responsive teaching"