SW Geography Conference 2025 SW Geography Conference Introduction Welcome to the SW Geography Conference 2025 page! We are delighted to announce that the date of the conference will be Monday 16 June ...

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There's something magical about a silent classroom. Students are focused, heads are down, pens are busily scratching away. Participation Ratio is high, and you can almost feel the learning in the room...

“Sir, I don’t know where to start with this Scrooge essay!” “Neither do I…” “How many paragraphs do I need to do again?” “What does redemption mean?” Even the best laid lesson pla...

After two and a half years away, tomorrow I am back in the classroom as a Head of Department. When I told people that I was leaving teaching to join Ofsted's Curriculum Unit as the national geography ...

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I should start with a trigger warning: this post will talk about going back to school for the start of a new term. But not just any new term. I want to talk about the special case of the start of the ...

Our round-up of everything you need to know about this year's GCSE results.

GCE, GCSE & iGCSE grade boundaries Summer 2024 (updated as released) Links (or scroll down) GCSE AQA EDEXCEL OCR WJEC/ EDUQAS CCEA GCE (AS/A Level) AQA EDEXCEL (Pearson) OCR WJEC/ EDUQAS CIE CCEA Secu...

This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...

How pupils read, write, talk, and the vocabulary they use in every classroom is specialist and unique. There are general words and literacy strategies to deploy, but as pupils move up through school, ...

With the development of multi-academy trusts of varying sizes and geographic reaches, along with the focus on curriculum triggered by the changes to the OFSTED framework ushered in by Amanda…

I have a love/hate relationship with marking and feedback. On the one hand, I love the opportunity to read student work and the product of their thinking. It is really rewarding to see how ideas discu...