Christmaths Party!

I'm rattling excited to denote the details of my Christmaths Party which takes house on Mon 21st Dec inward London.

I got the sentiment for this outcome when I was planning a lesson on truncating decimals for my Year 10 class. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 couplet of colleagues looked over my shoulder together with asked what I was doing -  they weren't aware that this topic is on the novel GCSE specification. This made me realise that maths teachers demand to a greater extent than support. Over the concluding yr we've been overwhelmed alongside data nigh the novel qualifications together with forthwith we're on the front end draw of piece of occupation delivering the content all yesteryear ourselves. Over the adjacent 2 years we'd all produce goodness from ongoing access to preparation on the novel GCSE content. With this inward mind, I decided to organise a preparation session inward conjunction alongside a Christmas social event. Any excuse for a party... :)

I'm fortunate to hold upwards able to offering workshops from a expose of enthusiastic together with knowledgeable speakers. Between 3pm together with 6pm in that place volition hold upwards v xxx infinitesimal sessions nigh the novel GCSE. The exact programme is yet to hold upwards confirmed. I've created a website for this outcome - christmaths.weebly.com - together with volition update it alongside total details equally shortly equally I can.

After the CPD is consummate the political party volition start. Sumptuous bowl nutrient volition hold upwards served at 7pm. There'll hold upwards loads of eve amusement to brand this a neat nighttime out.

The £25 ticket cost covers food, a welcome drink, CPD together with festivities. Click hither to book - in that place are alone 75 tickets available for this outcome together with I await these to sell out quickly!

Although in that place is express capacity for the CPD, thankfully I'm too able to offering 'party only' tickets for the evening. These are £18 (which includes food) - arrival is from 6pm onwards. Bring your whole squad along to celebrate the destination of a long together with busy term.

The venue is Pause on Leadenhall Street, which is marked alongside a star on the map below. It's walking distance from 6 underground stations so easily accessible from anywhere inward London. The closest station is Aldgate which is alone a couplet of minutes walk away.

If you're travelling from exterior London together with then you lot mightiness desire to remain overnight. Of class there's enough of neat reasons to catch London at this fourth dimension of year, including Winter Wonderland, H2O ice skating at Somerset House together with concluding infinitesimal Christmas shopping. There are dozens of hotels inside walking distance of the venue, here's a few:

• Travelodge Tower Bridge - currently £44 (book forthwith - it was £39 when I checked concluding week)
• Premier Inn Aldgate - currently £69
• Qbic London City - currently £78
• Motel One - currently £98
• Hotel Indigo - currently £99

There are too other Travelodges together with Premier Inns nearby.

The wearing clothing code is casual, but political party outfits would hold upwards nice!

So, does my Christmaths Party audio good? I promise so! The hashtag for this party, inward anticipation of it becoming an annual event, is #christmaths15.  

See you lot there! I can't wait. Quick - purchase a ticket!

#Christmaths16

I'm rattling excited to part the details of this year's Christmaths event, which takes house inward London on Th 22nd Dec 2016.

#christmaths15 was a peachy success (read virtually it here). We had an afternoon of CPD alongside vivid speakers followed past times food, drinks, puzzles in addition to a quiz.

I know that many maths teachers are looking forrad to the opening of the novel maths gallery at the Science Museum, in addition to thus I decided to organise a unlike type of Christmas final result this year. Here's the plan:

3pm - 5pm: Group view to Mathematics: The Winton Gallery. Explore this exciting novel gallery inward the fellowship of swain maths teachers.

5pm - 7pm: We volition induce got exclusive purpose of the Media Space Cafe at the Science Museum where y'all volition live on treated to a drinking glass of fizz in addition to a mince pie. The Big Fat Christmaths Quiz volition return! Tickets for this reception are alone £12. There are 130 spaces available in addition to I await these to larn speedily in addition to thus mass now!

From 7pm: If anyone fancies a flake of festive socialising, we'll live on going circular the corner to The Hereford Arms afterwards. This isn't ticketed in addition to thus y'all tin simply attain upwards one's heed on the solar daytime if you'd similar to come upwards along.

For amount details of the final result in addition to to purchase tickets view christmaths.co.uk. Please invite your friends in addition to colleagues along too! All welcome.

Highlights Of 2016

2016 has been genuinely awful... The best means to learn by with as well as thus many terrible things happening inward i yr is to focus on the positives. In the footing of maths education, there's been loads of fantastic materials going on. Although nosotros overstep along to confront challenges relating to workload, behaviour, curriculum alter as well as recruitment, there's nevertheless enough to celebrate. In this post service I portion unopen to of my favourite moments of 2016.

The Conferences
La Salle's conferences are e'er brilliant. I was gutted to immature adult woman their Leeds conference inward June but I actually enjoyed the Peterborough conference inward March as well as the Kettering conference inward October. La Salle are hosting fifty-fifty to a greater extent than conferences inward 2017 (check out their dates as well as locations here) as well as thus if you lot haven't been before, produce bring together us.

Pre-conference drinks inward Peterborough inward March

Teachers enjoying #mathsconf6 inward Peterborough

Cake from Julia Smith at #mathsconf6
to celebrate my 50th gems post

Pre-conference drinks inward Kettering
- nosotros made Enigma machines!  

Rob Smith's tuck store at #mathsconf8 inward Kettering

The starting fourth dimension researchED Maths as well as Science was held inward Oxford inward June 2016. It was excellent. I actually promise to regard this trial render inward 2017.

A wonderful venue for researchED Maths as well as Science

Maths teachers come across for dejeuner at researchED Maths as well as Science

In 2016 I attended a issue of conferences equally a presenter, including Edexcel's Warwick conference, the FMSP's London KS5 Network Day, as well as Coast2Coast TSA's maths conference.

Peter Mattock as well as I presenting at
Coast2Coast TSA's maths conference

Meeting my maths hero Hannah Fry at
Edexcel's Warwick conference

The Social Events
I actually relish coming together upwardly with maths teachers who I've chatted to on Twitter. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 highlight this yr was our trip to Bletchley Park inward the summertime holidays. We were as well as thus lucky to hold upwardly treated to a tour of the grounds as well as a someone demonstration of an Enigma machine.

Summer solar daytime out at Bletchey Park with beau tweeters

Some of #teambletchley

La Salle organised their 2d summertime come across upwardly for maths teachers - Pie as well as Maths.

Summer drinks at #pieandmaths

I had a lovely fourth dimension at i of Old Andrew's blogger curries.

Out for drinks with edubloggers, organised past times
blogging legend Andrew Old

In Dec I hosted #christmaths16. 110 teachers got together for festive mathsy fun at the Science Museum followed past times a nighttime out at a Kensington pub.

Post-museum drinks at #christmaths16

Maths teachers enjoying #christmaths16

The Grassroots Events
This yr I've attended a issue of events at local schools. I presented at Maths inward the Sticks which was an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat solar daytime run past times Stuart Price, as well as I presented at Paul Collins' MathsMeet at Oakwood School. I also travelled upwardly to Oldham to acquaint at Lindsey Bennett's LIME event. I hosted my ain trial also - MathsMeet Glyn took house on a Sabbatum morning time inward March as well as starred i of my maths heroes, Don Steward.

Paul Collins at Oakwood School's MathsMeet

Ben Sparks presenting at Stuart Price's 'Maths inward the Sticks' Event

With colleagues at dejeuner subsequently #mathsmeetglyn

With Don Steward
at #mathsmeetglyn

The Websites as well as Resources
During 2016 the footing of maths resources went from line to strength.

Clarissa Grandi's artfulmaths.com is a beautiful novel website, providing inspiration as well as resources for both classroom displays as well as creative maths lessons.

New website mrcartermaths.com is highly valued for its repose of use. Excellent websites such equally mrbartonmaths.com, corbettmaths.com and mathsbot.com accept continued to develop novel content.

For Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat teachers, undergroundmathematics.org arrived on the scene, providing high character rich tasks from the squad at the University of Cambridge. We also discovered the IYGB papers on madasmaths.com, providing a large banking firm of challenging examination manner papers for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat students.

The prime game from Christian Lawson-Perfect provided hours of amusement - as well as tearing contest - with maths teachers.

Throughout 2016 maths hubs all over the province supported teachers inward both main as well as secondary schools. The White Rose Maths Hub shared splendid schemes of operate as well as assessment resources for Key Stages 1, 2 as well as 3.

Craig Barton's podcasts were a wonderful characteristic of 2016 - if you've non discovered these yet, they are good worth a listen. Look out for to a greater extent than of Craig's podcasts inward 2017.

The Networks
Since joining Twitter inward 2014, my career has been transformed. Its incredible network of teachers continues to provide an endless render of support, advice, resources, ideas as well as encouragement. During 2016 I was fortunate to overstep involved with both the AQA Maths Expert Panel as well as the TES Maths Panel too.

Some of the AQA Maths Expert Panel members
sporting Christmas jumpers at our Dec meeting

School

I can't verbalise well-nigh my 2016 maths didactics highlights without mentioning my wonderful schoolhouse as well as my awesome colleagues. They're a existent pleasance to operate with.

Lizzie as well as I with Year thirteen maths students on their
terminal solar daytime at Glyn. They don't usually aspect as well as thus scruffy!

Celebrating results on the starting fourth dimension solar daytime of the new
schoolhouse yr with colleagues Harry as well as Farah

With trainee instructor Sarah
at Glyn's staff Christmas party

With colleague Rachel at Glyn's
 staff Christmas dinner

Joint Heads of Maths Christina
as well as Catherine, with NQT Amelia 

Looking Ahead
2017 brings the starting fourth dimension sitting of maths GCSE ix - 1. The successful delivery of this novel qualification volition hold upwardly something for maths teachers to celebrate. I worry well-nigh how the media as well as populace volition react to depression degree boundaries as well as falling 'pass rates' though. I also worry well-nigh our misfortunate 'guinea pig' yr groups who won't hold upwardly funded to resit if they learn a Grade 4, fifty-fifty though it's probable they'll demand a Grade five for futurity career opportunities.

2017 also brings the start of the novel linear maths Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. Some of the specifications are non yet accredited, as well as it's with trepidation that I aspect ahead to the summertime term. I hold back that at that spot volition hold upwardly a terminal infinitesimal rush to organise schemes of work, instructor CPD, resources as well as textbooks.

The Smith Report on post-16 didactics is due to hold upwardly published whatever solar daytime right away as well as I (nervously) aspect frontwards to seeing the recommendations.

There are many wonderful events planned for maths teachers inward 2017 - regard my event listings for details. I aspect frontwards to La Salle's adjacent conference (11th March inward Bristol) as well as I actually promise I'll hold upwardly able to attend the real exciting JustMaths conference at Alton Towers inward June.

I'm positive that the many maths instructor networks, including our wonderful Twitter community, volition overstep along to thrive inward 2017.

We accept a lot to aspect frontwards to.

Happy New Year, maths teachers!

Summer Updates

I know that many of you lot possess got been off having wonderful adventures over summertime thence may possess got missed around of my updates. I've summarised them all hither thence you lot tin start the novel schoolhouse twelvemonth knowing precisely what's changed on resourceaholic.com.

Resource Libraries
My big project over summertime was to totally rewrite my Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking resources libraries equally they were yet aligned to the legacy specification. I possess got straight off published the next novel libraries:

Year 12 Pure Maths

Year xiii Pure Maths

Statistics (Year 12 together with 13)

Mechanics (Year 12 together with 13)

They're all accessible from the top menu. I promise they are helpful to Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marking teachers. Thanks to Ian Tomkin who kindly volunteered to assistance me rewrite my mechanics page (I don't instruct mechanics thence I needed assistance alongside this!).

I equally good did around operate on my Key Stage iii together with 4 resources libraries (Gems 89) thence produce banking concern correspond it out. You mightiness similar lessons such equally 'Conventions for labelling the sides together with angles of triangles' together with 'Drawing diagrams from a written description'.

I equally good made a start on adding resources from variationtheory.com together with mathsvenns.com to my resources libraries, though this is yet operate inwards progress. And I know that around of my longer topic listings demand to live shortened together with improved - again, I volition larn to it (perhaps side yesteryear side summer!).

Conferences
I updated my maths conferences page for 2018/19. Please allow me know if I've missed anything. I volition update it throughout the twelvemonth when events are announced. Have a expect straight off together with run across if there's anything you lot desire to attend. There are thence many cracking events to direct from!

I volition live speaking at #mathsconf17 inwards Birmingham on 13th October. Here's a description of my workshop:

If you're coming to #mathsconf17 together with looking for somewhere to rest on the Fri nighttime a few of us possess got booked the Premier Inn close New Street Station.

Blog Posts
In representative you lot missed it, I wrote Gems 92 right at the start of the holidays. It included loads of lovely stuff, especially on ratio. In early on August I equally good wrote Gems 93 which featured lots of cracking tasks together with resources.

In conjunction alongside Craig Barton's latest podcast, Year seven Maths Activities inwards which I shared 6 tasks which mightiness operate good inwards a outset lesson of the year.

Do possess got a psyche to Craig's podcast for loads for cracking advice on outset lessons.

For those of you lot who are planning your outset Year 12 lesson, banking concern correspond out my post service from lastly twelvemonth 'Planning for September: Year 12' inwards which I shared around lesson slides that you lot mightiness uncovering helpful.

#Latemaths
I launched my quaternary maths social final result together with possess got already sold a quarter of the tickets. #Latemaths takes house inwards London during one-half term on Sat 27th October. It features a mass launch together with loads of mathematical fun thence produce mass tickets straight off earlier they sell out. Bring your colleagues! All the details are at latemaths.weebly.com.

Displays
If you lot savor putting upwards a twosome of novel posters at the start of a novel schoolhouse year, or if you lot operate inwards a schoolhouse that insists on fresh corridor displays for Open Evening, you lot tin uncovering my updated displays page here.

I'm currently loving First G Digits of Pi' display which actually brightens upwards soiled schoolhouse corridors together with is a cracking talking request for passing students. Importantly, it's equally good really quick together with slowly to lay up!

And finally...
I wrote the MA August e-News which you lot tin read here for the latest tidings from The Mathematical Association. I equally good wrote a magazine article close teaching indices together with an accompanying resources which (hopefully) volition live published at around request inwards the side yesteryear side twosome of months.

Before anyone tells me off for working over summertime instead of relaxing, I tin assure you lot that I did a huge amount of relaxing! Because I'm starting a novel job, I had no schoolhouse operate to produce over summertime for the outset fourth dimension inwards 10 years. I spent the outset 2 weeks of the summertime intermission away on a wonderful trouble solid unit of measurement holiday, staying inwards a cottage close Hay-on-Wye. I had a lovely fourth dimension inwards the remaining 4 weeks - highlights included an amazing nighttime out alongside friends at my outset e'er Secret Cinema event, enjoying 2 awesome escape rooms alongside lovely colleagues, watching numerous films alongside my hubby (A Quiet Place is thence good!), together with enjoying lots of drawing, jigsaws together with days out alongside my 2 daughters. I equally good got the direct a opportunity to direct grip of upwards alongside around friends from Twitter, thank you lot to Dr Frost.

Megan, Adam, me, Stuart, Chris, Nikki, Colin, Jamie together with Daniel.
Photo taken yesteryear @CantabKitty at Jamie Frost's summertime drinks.

My youngest missy is starting reception side yesteryear side calendar week together with I'm going full-time later 6 years of working part-time... So I estimate it's nearly fourth dimension to switch the warning clock dorsum on. Like most people, I'm feeling really deplorable that summertime is over just I'm certain that inside a calendar week or 2 we'll all live dorsum inwards the swing of things.

Good luck alongside novel schoolhouse twelvemonth everyone!

Christmaths Party!

I'm rattling excited to denote the details of my Christmaths Party which takes house on Mon 21st Dec inward London.

I got the sentiment for this outcome when I was planning a lesson on truncating decimals for my Year 10 class. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 couplet of colleagues looked over my shoulder together with asked what I was doing -  they weren't aware that this topic is on the novel GCSE specification. This made me realise that maths teachers demand to a greater extent than support. Over the concluding yr we've been overwhelmed alongside data nigh the novel qualifications together with forthwith we're on the front end draw of piece of occupation delivering the content all yesteryear ourselves. Over the adjacent 2 years we'd all produce goodness from ongoing access to preparation on the novel GCSE content. With this inward mind, I decided to organise a preparation session inward conjunction alongside a Christmas social event. Any excuse for a party... :)

I'm fortunate to hold upwards able to offering workshops from a expose of enthusiastic together with knowledgeable speakers. Between 3pm together with 6pm in that place volition hold upwards v xxx infinitesimal sessions nigh the novel GCSE. The exact programme is yet to hold upwards confirmed. I've created a website for this outcome - christmaths.weebly.com - together with volition update it alongside total details equally shortly equally I can.

After the CPD is consummate the political party volition start. Sumptuous bowl nutrient volition hold upwards served at 7pm. There'll hold upwards loads of eve amusement to brand this a neat nighttime out.

The £25 ticket cost covers food, a welcome drink, CPD together with festivities. Click hither to book - in that place are alone 75 tickets available for this outcome together with I await these to sell out quickly!

Although in that place is express capacity for the CPD, thankfully I'm too able to offering 'party only' tickets for the evening. These are £18 (which includes food) - arrival is from 6pm onwards. Bring your whole squad along to celebrate the destination of a long together with busy term.

The venue is Pause on Leadenhall Street, which is marked alongside a star on the map below. It's walking distance from 6 underground stations so easily accessible from anywhere inward London. The closest station is Aldgate which is alone a couplet of minutes walk away.

If you're travelling from exterior London together with then you lot mightiness desire to remain overnight. Of class there's enough of neat reasons to catch London at this fourth dimension of year, including Winter Wonderland, H2O ice skating at Somerset House together with concluding infinitesimal Christmas shopping. There are dozens of hotels inside walking distance of the venue, here's a few:

• Travelodge Tower Bridge - currently £44 (book forthwith - it was £39 when I checked concluding week)
• Premier Inn Aldgate - currently £69
• Qbic London City - currently £78
• Motel One - currently £98
• Hotel Indigo - currently £99

There are too other Travelodges together with Premier Inns nearby.

The wearing clothing code is casual, but political party outfits would hold upwards nice!

So, does my Christmaths Party audio good? I promise so! The hashtag for this party, inward anticipation of it becoming an annual event, is #christmaths15.  

See you lot there! I can't wait. Quick - purchase a ticket!

#Christmaths16

I'm rattling excited to part the details of this year's Christmaths event, which takes house inward London on Th 22nd Dec 2016.

#christmaths15 was a peachy success (read virtually it here). We had an afternoon of CPD alongside vivid speakers followed past times food, drinks, puzzles in addition to a quiz.

I know that many maths teachers are looking forrad to the opening of the novel maths gallery at the Science Museum, in addition to thus I decided to organise a unlike type of Christmas final result this year. Here's the plan:

3pm - 5pm: Group view to Mathematics: The Winton Gallery. Explore this exciting novel gallery inward the fellowship of swain maths teachers.

5pm - 7pm: We volition induce got exclusive purpose of the Media Space Cafe at the Science Museum where y'all volition live on treated to a drinking glass of fizz in addition to a mince pie. The Big Fat Christmaths Quiz volition return! Tickets for this reception are alone £12. There are 130 spaces available in addition to I await these to larn speedily in addition to thus mass now!

From 7pm: If anyone fancies a flake of festive socialising, we'll live on going circular the corner to The Hereford Arms afterwards. This isn't ticketed in addition to thus y'all tin simply attain upwards one's heed on the solar daytime if you'd similar to come upwards along.

For amount details of the final result in addition to to purchase tickets view christmaths.co.uk. Please invite your friends in addition to colleagues along too! All welcome.

Highlights Of 2016

2016 has been genuinely awful... The best means to learn by with as well as thus many terrible things happening inward i yr is to focus on the positives. In the footing of maths education, there's been loads of fantastic materials going on. Although nosotros overstep along to confront challenges relating to workload, behaviour, curriculum alter as well as recruitment, there's nevertheless enough to celebrate. In this post service I portion unopen to of my favourite moments of 2016.

The Conferences
La Salle's conferences are e'er brilliant. I was gutted to immature adult woman their Leeds conference inward June but I actually enjoyed the Peterborough conference inward March as well as the Kettering conference inward October. La Salle are hosting fifty-fifty to a greater extent than conferences inward 2017 (check out their dates as well as locations here) as well as thus if you lot haven't been before, produce bring together us.

Pre-conference drinks inward Peterborough inward March

Teachers enjoying #mathsconf6 inward Peterborough

Cake from Julia Smith at #mathsconf6
to celebrate my 50th gems post

Pre-conference drinks inward Kettering
- nosotros made Enigma machines!  

Rob Smith's tuck store at #mathsconf8 inward Kettering

The starting fourth dimension researchED Maths as well as Science was held inward Oxford inward June 2016. It was excellent. I actually promise to regard this trial render inward 2017.

A wonderful venue for researchED Maths as well as Science

Maths teachers come across for dejeuner at researchED Maths as well as Science

In 2016 I attended a issue of conferences equally a presenter, including Edexcel's Warwick conference, the FMSP's London KS5 Network Day, as well as Coast2Coast TSA's maths conference.

Peter Mattock as well as I presenting at
Coast2Coast TSA's maths conference

Meeting my maths hero Hannah Fry at
Edexcel's Warwick conference

The Social Events
I actually relish coming together upwardly with maths teachers who I've chatted to on Twitter. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 highlight this yr was our trip to Bletchley Park inward the summertime holidays. We were as well as thus lucky to hold upwardly treated to a tour of the grounds as well as a someone demonstration of an Enigma machine.

Summer solar daytime out at Bletchey Park with beau tweeters

Some of #teambletchley

La Salle organised their 2d summertime come across upwardly for maths teachers - Pie as well as Maths.

Summer drinks at #pieandmaths

I had a lovely fourth dimension at i of Old Andrew's blogger curries.

Out for drinks with edubloggers, organised past times
blogging legend Andrew Old

In Dec I hosted #christmaths16. 110 teachers got together for festive mathsy fun at the Science Museum followed past times a nighttime out at a Kensington pub.

Post-museum drinks at #christmaths16

Maths teachers enjoying #christmaths16

The Grassroots Events
This yr I've attended a issue of events at local schools. I presented at Maths inward the Sticks which was an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat solar daytime run past times Stuart Price, as well as I presented at Paul Collins' MathsMeet at Oakwood School. I also travelled upwardly to Oldham to acquaint at Lindsey Bennett's LIME event. I hosted my ain trial also - MathsMeet Glyn took house on a Sabbatum morning time inward March as well as starred i of my maths heroes, Don Steward.

Paul Collins at Oakwood School's MathsMeet

Ben Sparks presenting at Stuart Price's 'Maths inward the Sticks' Event

With colleagues at dejeuner subsequently #mathsmeetglyn

With Don Steward
at #mathsmeetglyn

The Websites as well as Resources
During 2016 the footing of maths resources went from line to strength.

Clarissa Grandi's artfulmaths.com is a beautiful novel website, providing inspiration as well as resources for both classroom displays as well as creative maths lessons.

New website mrcartermaths.com is highly valued for its repose of use. Excellent websites such equally mrbartonmaths.com, corbettmaths.com and mathsbot.com accept continued to develop novel content.

For Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat teachers, undergroundmathematics.org arrived on the scene, providing high character rich tasks from the squad at the University of Cambridge. We also discovered the IYGB papers on madasmaths.com, providing a large banking firm of challenging examination manner papers for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flat students.

The prime game from Christian Lawson-Perfect provided hours of amusement - as well as tearing contest - with maths teachers.

Throughout 2016 maths hubs all over the province supported teachers inward both main as well as secondary schools. The White Rose Maths Hub shared splendid schemes of operate as well as assessment resources for Key Stages 1, 2 as well as 3.

Craig Barton's podcasts were a wonderful characteristic of 2016 - if you've non discovered these yet, they are good worth a listen. Look out for to a greater extent than of Craig's podcasts inward 2017.

The Networks
Since joining Twitter inward 2014, my career has been transformed. Its incredible network of teachers continues to provide an endless render of support, advice, resources, ideas as well as encouragement. During 2016 I was fortunate to overstep involved with both the AQA Maths Expert Panel as well as the TES Maths Panel too.

Some of the AQA Maths Expert Panel members
sporting Christmas jumpers at our Dec meeting

School

I can't verbalise well-nigh my 2016 maths didactics highlights without mentioning my wonderful schoolhouse as well as my awesome colleagues. They're a existent pleasance to operate with.

Lizzie as well as I with Year thirteen maths students on their
terminal solar daytime at Glyn. They don't usually aspect as well as thus scruffy!

Celebrating results on the starting fourth dimension solar daytime of the new
schoolhouse yr with colleagues Harry as well as Farah

With trainee instructor Sarah
at Glyn's staff Christmas party

With colleague Rachel at Glyn's
 staff Christmas dinner

Joint Heads of Maths Christina
as well as Catherine, with NQT Amelia 

Looking Ahead
2017 brings the starting fourth dimension sitting of maths GCSE ix - 1. The successful delivery of this novel qualification volition hold upwardly something for maths teachers to celebrate. I worry well-nigh how the media as well as populace volition react to depression degree boundaries as well as falling 'pass rates' though. I also worry well-nigh our misfortunate 'guinea pig' yr groups who won't hold upwardly funded to resit if they learn a Grade 4, fifty-fifty though it's probable they'll demand a Grade five for futurity career opportunities.

2017 also brings the start of the novel linear maths Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 level. Some of the specifications are non yet accredited, as well as it's with trepidation that I aspect ahead to the summertime term. I hold back that at that spot volition hold upwardly a terminal infinitesimal rush to organise schemes of work, instructor CPD, resources as well as textbooks.

The Smith Report on post-16 didactics is due to hold upwardly published whatever solar daytime right away as well as I (nervously) aspect frontwards to seeing the recommendations.

There are many wonderful events planned for maths teachers inward 2017 - regard my event listings for details. I aspect frontwards to La Salle's adjacent conference (11th March inward Bristol) as well as I actually promise I'll hold upwardly able to attend the real exciting JustMaths conference at Alton Towers inward June.

I'm positive that the many maths instructor networks, including our wonderful Twitter community, volition overstep along to thrive inward 2017.

We accept a lot to aspect frontwards to.

Happy New Year, maths teachers!